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|| **Personal** || **Professional** || **How you will use this?** || [] || X || X || Can't live without my "to do" list. It keeps me up to date. || [] || X || X || I am currently keeping track of friends that are biking through all 48 states in a year. Love google groups. || [] || X || X || I check it often, especially if I am traveling. It seems to be more reliable than Weatherbug which we have a statiion at our school. Weatherbug keeps going down but Google weather is there as long as I have internet. Doesn't help much when the electricity is off though!!! :o) || [] || X || X || Google Images - The vast collection of images available at this site is wonderful. I regularly visit Google Images to find the perfect image for a PowerPoint or a project that I want to present to my students. I like that ability to view so many different pictures all at one site. || [] || X || X || Google Earth – One of my all time favorites. It is fun to locate and view my house on Google Earth. It’s amazing how close of view I can get. This site could be incorporated into the science classroom with a botany or entomology project. Students could find and map the locations of where they found their plant or insect species. || [] || X || X || Google Maps – This site is a life saver when I am in need of directions to a place I have never been to. I use Google Maps regularly to find the location and get directions when I want to shop at stores that are off the beaten path or simply to find stores that I’ve never been to before. I have also used Google Maps to get directions to work related meetings and conferences I’ve attended. Great site that keeps me from getting lost! || [] || x || x || When you study World History, it's good to look at maps. I can use google earth in the classroom to show students a really good map. || [] || x || x || I use YouTube in the classroom all the time. I can find short videos about almost anything in the History Book. || [] || x || x || Google Books gives me a tool to find tons of supplementary history material. It's easy to preview and mark the ones I might want to buy later. || [] ||  || X || This allows students to be able to search across websites that the teacher specifies, preventing students from coming across inappropriate material, or helps students find suitable information for their research. || [] || X || X || This tool allows student and teachers to edit and upload photos. Here they can organize and share their photos as well. This tool would work perfect for journalism or photo classes. || [] ||  || X || This tool allows teachers to create personalized web pages that don't require code. This would be an easy way to create a classroom homepage. || http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en || x || x || I love google images. When ever I need a picture for anything this is the first place I start. I have already used it in the classroom just to make discussion more interesting. I took pictures off of here and put them in my power point to get students talking, just by asking them what they thought the pictures represented generated a lot of class discussion. || https://sites.google.com/ || x || x || This could be used for many different things. I just happened to click on this the other day and think I will begin playing with it to see what I can do and what I may potentially use it for. I may use it create a site for the classroom or maybe a family site so that anyone that wants to see how I am doing can click on it. || https://www.google.com/accounts || x ||  || I have had my google email account for 4 or 5 years now. I love that account. I think it will be around for a very long time. There are many of them out there but I just happen to like how they set up email strings on this site. I would continue using my email through here. || [] || x || x || The calendar could be used both inside and outside of the classroom. It can hold important meeting dates, schedules (professional and personal), along with students' birthdays and family and friends' birthdays. Now that I have discovered this tool, I will be filling it out reguarly! || [] ||  || x || Although this tool could be used for personal use, I would be more likely to use it professionally. It is ueful for different types of research and scholarly information that can also be found on Ebsco Host type sites. I recommend the use of it if you haven't tried it out already. || [] || x || x || I like to know news headlines and what better way to read them than right on your google account! When I am checking my email, I can just click the tab right by it and check news headlines and read whatever I might be interested in that day. This could also be used in the classroom to keep students updated on current events, etc.. || [] || X || X || Google book is a great way to find additional information, as well as recall information. I would use this as a supplemental tool as well as a way for my students to do more research. I really like how you can find old magazines and search for new information in them. || [] || X || X || I love this! I have used it mulitple times on different projects that I have needed pictures. I also encourage my students to use it as well. They just got done doing a photostory project on the computer and many struggled to find pictures. I shared with them this site and they loved it! || Wuttke || Google Map [] || X || X || I have and plan to continue to use this tool while working with students. It is the easiest way to show students a visual of where a country is located. I would use this in geography as well as S.S. when needing to show where a country/continent is located. || [] || X || X || I use this one and can’t imagine going without it (or something even better). My wife and I can not only update our own schedules easily, but we can see each other’s schedules and plan around them accordingly. This is especially important when we’re scheduling make-up voice lessons. I tried setting up a Google calendar to coordinate the rehearsals and performances of the music ensembles at my church. Unfortunately, there were some “technological” problems, but maybe in the future I could be more successful using this with other teachers in my school or district. || [] ||  || X || I didn’t know what this was until I watched the video; I’m glad I did. The teacher I’m working with now coordinates all activities between the eight elementary music teachers in the district. Sometimes, that can be a hassle. This could make it easier by allowing all the teachers to instantly edit a document, say a curriculum revision, without a flood of e-mails. I can also see this working when trying to put together concert programs. In children’s chorus, for example, the artistic director e-mails the file to six other staff members asking for corrections/changes. How much simpler would it be for us to make the changes ourselves? || [] ||  || X || I will definitely use this in my voice studio. No more searching for “Widmung translation.” Finding good translations can be tricky, but I tried this tool with a few texts I know in a couple different languages and was very impressed with the results. I like that it automatically changes the order of words and such to provide a translation that makes sense in English. I only wish you could also get a literal translation. || http://books.google.com/books?hl=es || X || X || Easy way to look for authentic texts to use in class. Saves me translation time as well as translation errors so commonly found in all online translators (Google's own included). || http://www.google.com/intl/en/toolbar/ff/index.html || X ||  || Saves time (Ok, a few seconds, but that adds up with all the google searches I do) over going to the google homepage, typing in a search, etc... I can just put my search right into the address bar on Firefox andit either take me right to the page I want, or to the google search page if I wasn't specific enough. || http://maps.google.com/?hl=en || X || X || I use this at least once a day to find something, whether it be personal, or a location in another country that I want to show the students. I won't miss full sized wall maps when they are finally phased out. || [] || X ||  || After setting up my i google page, I have it as my main opening page! It has my to do list on it and it helps me keep up to date on everything this is going on without going to multiple sites. || [] || X || X || Google Earth could be used for both professional and personal. I find it interesting to look at the world from a different point of view. In the classroom I would use this to show places that we are learning about, perhaps google earth the white house and washington DC. || http://maps.google.com/?hl=en || X || X || I agree with everyone has been saying about google maps, it is great to have a full sized map to look at. I love the detail as well and the options of search that come along with google maps, classic google sytle. || [] || x || x || I use google images both personally and professionally. I used many images I found this way on my pre-assessment at the start of my unit for diagrams of a carbon atom, the periodic table, particle arrangement, etc. I also used this extensively last year when I looked for Lady Gaga ideas for my halloween costume. || [] || x || x || I have used Youtube for a few years and did not know until I set up my iGoogle page that this is a google product. I use it both personally and professionally. I have used it in the classroom at the start of my unit on matter when I played the first portion of Semisonic's "All About Chemistry" to get my students engaged. Additionally, I used it a few days ago to look up a song by Niki Minaj and posted "Save Me" to my facebook on a personal level. This is an extremely useful tool in education as there are many informational videos to access. || []= ||  || x || Google docs is a great professional tool. I have used it for help with resume updating, and there are many templates available for professional use, such as spreadsheets, calendars, etc. || [] || X ||  || This is an item that i would use for my personal self. I think it is a really neat tool to orgainze some of my favorite link. It can also be a home to information that I use consistantly || [] || X || X || Google scholar has been a huge savior for me. It provides a quick and easy tool to locate peer reviewed journal articles. It can be used to write professional documents and studies. It is a valuable tool for any researcher || http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en || X || X || Google directory is just an all around handy tool for browsing the internet. The primary google search engine is great for finding something specific, but it doesn't really do anything for someone with a vague starting point. Google directory allows you to look through categories that start broad and ultimately narrow down to specific topics. Great for beginning research or general personal searching. || http://books.google.com/books?hl=en ||  || X || This lets you search the text of full text books. With the electronic medium, there is now a massive library of public domain media that can be read for free. Google books not only allows you to read them, but search the content in its entirety for specific key words. Great for drawing up specific quotes for papers. It's also broken down into topic categories, allowing you to find new sources in your field. || http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en ||  || X || This one is pretty self explanatory: Google scholar searches through scholarly journals. Sometimes as college students we don't appreciate how good we have it in regard to the access the universities give us to online scholarly journals and search engines like ProQuest. When we graduate, we may not be fortunate enough to have cheap access to the same sources, and google Scholar can help offset that void. ||
 * **Name** || **Google Tool/Product**
 * Dr. Schopp || You Tube Safety Mode [] ||  || x || Found on Google for Educators: [] This tool blocks inappropriate YouTube videos and assures appropriate content for classroom use. ||
 * Dr. Schopp || Google Images [] || x || x || Google images provide quality images for presentations and documents. I would typically search the Web extensively for images, however there are thousands available in one spot. ||
 * Colleen B || Google Images
 * Colleen B || Google groups
 * Colleen B || Google weather
 * Barry L || Google Earth - [] || x || x || Google Earth is just neat to mess around with to find your house, but it can also be useful in a Math class to calculate distances and traveling rates for airplanes, trains, cars, etc. ||
 * Barry L || Google Sponsored Computer Science for High School - [] || x || x || Being a Computer Science graduate, I find a lot of math and computer correlations with learning how to program a computer. I find it very interesting that Google is working with students to learn how to do this. ||
 * Barry L || Google Earth Sky - [] || x || x || Google Sky is the opposite of Google Earth. It can be used in math and science to observe and calculate the trajectory of satellites, planets, and other celestial bodies. ||
 * Mike G. || Google Earth http://www.google.com/earth/index.html || X || X || Google Earth is fun to use the flight simulator to fly around anywhere on Earth. It also is good to help students with math questions, like the old train for New York and Los Angles question. ||
 * Mike G. || [|Google conversion] || X || X || Google conversion lets you convert one measuring unit to another. This is helpful for students so they do not need to memorize unit conversion ||
 * Mike G, || Google chat http://www.google.com/talk/ || X || X || Google chat lets you communicate with people from other cities. This will be useful for connecting your students with other classes from across the globe ||
 * Bobbi T || [] || X || X || I would use a tool like this frequently since I am constantly taking pictures. You can fine-tune your photos, crop, and add special effects to them. This could be used for students to edit pictures that have been taken on field trips, in the classroom, or ect. ||
 * Bobbi T || []# ||  || X || This tool would be great to learn for ELL students. This tool translates documents or text. Also, it keeps the text in English (or whatever the original text is in) and has the translation next to it, so students could compare what the two words look like in different languages. ||
 * Bobbi T || [] || X || X || This site would be good for having students calculate distances between places. Students could search any location and pick the street view and feel as if they are right there. There are also 3-D images and historical images. Not only that, but you can explore planets, moon, and sky. ||
 * Renee B || Google Images
 * Renee B || Google Earth
 * Renee B || Google Maps
 * Brian M || [|iGoogle] || X || X || iGoogle is my home page and I use it to gather all sorts of data for both personal and professional use. I have set my page up to get daily updates of quotes, jokes, etc. that I then share with my class. ||
 * Brian M || [|Google Reader] || X || X || I use Google Reader as my RSS to gather news and blogs from all over the web. I have had each of my students set up a reader as well adding their interests. We then occasionally will select stories and blog about them. ||
 * Brian M || [|Blogger] ||  || X || Obviously we are using this in this class and, as I stated with my Google Reader link above, I have my students blog about a variety of subjects. ||
 * Ben G || Google Earth
 * Ben G || YouTube
 * Ben G || Google Books
 * Jenn A || Google Custom Search Engine
 * Jenn A || Picasa
 * Jenn A || Google Page Creator
 * Marchelle || [] || x ||  || I would use this site for personal use. I would use this to compare prices of items I was looking to buy when shopping online, or in stores. ||
 * Marchelle || [] || x || x || I would use google Earth in the classroom for geography and social studies for visuals, and possibly even math for distance. You could show students examples using google Earth. I would also use google Earth for personal use. It is fun to see what you can see with it. ||
 * Marchelle || [] || x || x || I would use this tool to search and skim through books that I would like to read myself, as well as in my classroom. I think this could also be a good tool for students to use in order to find books they would like to use for research or personal reading as well. ||
 * Stacey M || Google Images
 * Stacey M || Google Sites
 * Stacey M || Google Mail
 * Amanda B || Google Calendar
 * Amanda B || Google Scholar
 * Amanda B || Google News
 * Sarah Mueller || [] || x || x || I think that google books is amazing. I love the fact that you can access millions of books for free online. There is a vast collection of classics and modern works-google provides a review but yet also lets you view the full text. This could be helpful for in and outside of the classroom; before purchasing a book you can not only read the review, and the first chapter or so, but also see a list of popular passages, common terms and phrases, references, and site where you could purchase the book online. This could be useful if you only want to refer to another book-you could sinply look for the passage through this site. Also the site is very organized and lists different genres, authors, related works and authors, and a very nifty search tool. ||
 * Sarah Mueller || [] || x || x || Google maps is another very useful tool. I like the fact taht you could type in specific places by name, addresses, coordinates and have a map instantly. I think this could be useful in and outside of the classroom. Outside, it's always nice to be able to look up routes or destinations and be provided with a free map. In the classroom, it could be very useful when researching specific towns of authors or referenced sites from a text. ||
 * Sarah Mueller || [] || x || x || Google web has always been one of my favorite search engines. I like the fact that it is a trusted engine and always provides useful information, suggestions, and extras. I have used google since middle school and rely on it to this day! ||
 * Bethany Wuttke || Google Book
 * Bethany Wuttke || Google Image
 * Bethany
 * Matthew Baker || Google Calendar
 * Matthew Baker || Google Documents
 * Matthew Baker || Google Translate
 * Chris Coughlin || Google "Libros" (Books)
 * Chris Coughlin || Google Toolbar
 * Chris Coughlin || Google Maps
 * Tyffany McMichael || I google
 * Tyffany McMichael || Google Earth
 * Tyffany McMichael || Google Maps
 * Brittany Douglas || Google Docs ||< X || X || I often use Google Docs as an additional backup to my jump drive if I am transporting a project or presentation. My students could easily use it to share work and collaborate on projects. You can access Google Docs from anywhere which is super helpful. It can support documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and it even has templates. ||
 * Brittany Douglas || Google Knol ||  || X || Knol allows people to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content. I use it to look up current math topics and classroom aids. My students can use Knol for their own levels of research, of course double checking the credibility of sources. ||
 * Brittany Douglas || Google Books || X || X || The Books application allows me to browse all kinds of books electronically. More specifically, I can pull up math related sections of classic books or current trends (any book for that matter) for my classes to view, discuss, and use in applications. ||
 * Lisa L. || [] || x || x || I use this tool to get quick directions if I am unfamiliar, and to teach directions in a New York dialect to my 8th grade students, since many of them don't know how to get from point A to point B. ||
 * Lisa L. || [|http://www.igoogle.com] || x ||  || I use this for the calendar, news, and to keep up on general information and stay organized. ||
 * Lisa L. || [|http://www.youtube.com] || x || x || I love to use this to find skits to show my Advanced Drama class to demonstrate performance and stage presence, ad they prepare for school performances, and I find great things as entertainment and video clips to demonstrate characterization to my students. ||
 * Amber Mundt || Google Images
 * Amber Mundt || You Tube
 * Amber Mundt || Google Docs, Templates
 * Kyle H. || Google Earh [] || X || X || Google Earth is an awesome tool! With this i can pull up any location and give a geography lesson or even a history lesson. I have actually used this to show the difference between boston harbor in 1770 and today. ||
 * Kyle H. || IGoogle
 * Kyle H. || Google Scholar
 * Chris Roman || Google Directory
 * Chris Roman || Google Books
 * Chris Roman || Google Scholar
 * Joelle Neutzling || Google Earth http://www.google.com/intl/en/earth/index.html || x || x || I would be able to use this during a social stuides unit where I would be able to pull maps where the students would actually be able to see the exact stop that we were discussing in a particular unit or chapter. ||
 * Joelle Neutzling || Google Trends [] ||  || x || I would use google trends in the classroom if my students were researching a certain topic or country in which they could use this tool for looking up a certain trend that was either a current or in the past ||
 * Joelle Neutzling || Google Knol [] || x || x || This is a great tool for students to use in the classroom. I might have my students write a Knol after a unit of study I would ahve them they write about that specific topic and what they know about it. I could even use this as a time of assessment tool. ||
 * Delayna Levin Jensen || [] || X || X || I am a visual person and lack the creativeity to make a 'groovy' poster of this calaber. I would post this near the computer in my classroom. ||
 * Delayna Levin Jensen || [] || X ||  || This is a more effective way to find blogs that are relevant to a specific top and a better way to broaden my blog accoutromal. ||
 * Delayna Levin Jensen || [] || X || X || Okay this is probably cheating, but I use this site all the time. I found it for personal reasons but have recently used it professionally. ||