Teacher resource page located at http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/nes/luc/

We have opened many .kml files on the above link and discussed observation and the concept of sprawl. Observing the different colors and discussing the trees, heat, freeway patterns, parking lots, etc.

Lessons should be meaningful and relavant to students.

Students are able to view various sites and ultimately make a recommendation to Walmart where they should build a new store..

When Mr. Bodzin taught this unit, they took away all the laptops at the end of the year and the teachers had to print materials for students to use instead of doing most of it on computers. Laptops should not be taken up early just to make it more convenient for the person who maintains them. It should all depend on the needs of the teachers of students.

Very interesting workshop. This is worth sharing with our Social studies teachers.

Criteria:

• Low/no cost
• Easy
• Quick

Critical Attibutes

• Resources must be studied ahead of time
• Map of related place
• Clues on map that realte the map to the resources and require both recall and ideation

Optional Attibures

• Scores kept based on speed and accuracy
• Roles to divide up the reading
• Leaderboard posted
• Clues made available one at a time based on performance
• Communication channel allowing players to collaborate in real time

The idea is to create your own Google Map to place and edit place markers with clues about a person, place or event. Students will read the clues and view the street view to help answer the clues. Wikipedia, photos and proximity can also be used to bury clues.

Students must read the links to get prior knowledge, there is a map, then the clues are reveled as the problem is solved. He uses Tiny Chat when the work is being done. Instant collaboration.

Google Forms is used to submit answers.

While this is an indoor activity, the same type of thing can be done with GPS outdoor.

Links used in presentation:

Place based Education, Promise   of Place
http://promiseofplace.org

www.peecworks.org/index/ Place Base Educaiton Evaluation Collaborative

This is a concept being developed and will be available at http://placepuzzles.org to open July 21, 2009 at 3:59 PM PDT

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=43728863&selection_id=48088977&rownumber=5&max=22&gopage=

Now for the keynote of the morning.

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Workshop Links at

http://sites.google.com/site/cuegli/events/2009-06-28

The handout for the day:

http://www.cue.org/gwe

Difference between Google Apps and Google accounts.

Some districts can turn off feature in Google Apps that will render those apps useless. If you create a Google account with your own work email and then someone creates Google apps at that domain, your email will be sucked into the new account.

Searching Google …Even More…..Web search features

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html

Enter into the search bar:

Weather:
enter “weather” and your zipcode to get the weather in that area

Calculator:
enter an equation in the search bar and receive the answer and teach order of operations. Google will guess the order it thinks you might want.

Synonym Search: add a tilde ~ in front of your search term to also search it’s synonyms

Boolean Search: Don’t do it without support
use Advanced Search to search only for PDF or PPT files.

Using Google Books and My Library
Public Domain books available online and can be entered in “My Library” to organize them.
You must put a book in your library before you can Favorite another user’s library. Cool way to share books or see what others are reading.

Google Docs
The Spreadsheet can be used as a webinar, since it has the Chat feature. It no longer automatically saves the chat and it is difficult to capture it. You will need to take screen shots or a video of the chat window.

Creating a Quiz in Google Docs

This is accomplished by creating a Form. Then use the IF formula to grade it and get statistics. =IF((j2=”answer”, 1,0). Then create a sum formula to get the grade for each student.

Google Maps

Students can see the area that will flood by using “My Maps” and changing the numbers.
Add the distance measuring tool to your maps by clicking on “My Maps” and then click on Browse the Directory and select Distance Measuring Tool.

In My Maps, students can add their own locations, icons, pictures, paths, notes on interesting sites, etc. Students can share the map and work on it collaboratively.

Google Earth

Layers… there are Educational Layers to use while zooming anywhere in the world, from NASA, Discovery Education and more.

Google Sites

Google Sites are really wikis. That makes sense and now I think I will be more interested in Google Sites. I never had a use for Google Sites before.

I’m a little disappointed in the the Google Institute, but I did learn several things about Google that did not already know.