Google+Tools

toc If you use Google mainly as a search engine, you may be surprised at all the other things you can do with Google tools! Check out some of the ones listed below to spark your creative juices!

4J Access
Click on this [|link] to access the 4J Google Apps site.

Google Docs How to
Google Docs is a service that allows you to easily create and share word processing documents, presentations, spreadsheets and forms online. You can invite others to simply view your document, or you can allow them to edit as well. Like a wiki, Google Docs also keeps track of changes that your collaborators make. This makes it easy to revert to past versions of the document if you wish to discard changes that were made.

Click the handout below for step by step, 4J, specific directions.

Google Docs
This Google Doc handout has helpful information and directions for using Google Docs in your classroom. Please note that the section on creating accounts is not relevant to us as all 4J students and staff already have an account using their 4J email address. Click [|here] to access the handout.

Google Docs video
This Common Craft video will give you an overview of what Google Docs are all about.

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Resources
My Spring Break with Google Earth

[|Google maps] Phil Biggs has created a wonderful site that walks you through using Google maps for all kinds of applications such as history, geography, even creating family trees. [|Google Lit Trips]

helps literature come alive as students can see the actual places where stories occurred.

Google Tools PowerPoint:

Google Calendar: click [|here] to access David Nelson's Google calendar document

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