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		<title>Oral Assessments With Phones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A majority of technology infused lessons involve students consuming or creating content. Typically content creation with technology is text or image based. In world language courses we need students to speak. Writing is less of an instructional concern.  Exploring technologies that allow for speaking and listening are a priority for teachers of world language. Our world language department has been experimenting with alternative tools to assess student oral proficiency. One tool that has stood out is Google Voice. Google Voice is a free phone service. Google allows for two options. Option one allows you to keep your existing cell phone number. All calls to this number are forwarded to  your Google Voice mailbox. Google voice provides an online voice mailbox. Your voice mails are available online in the form of emails. Google uses its voice recognition technology to transcribe the message into text. From the online screen you can view the transcript of the message or listen to the message by clicking play. Google Voice also provides a mobile phone application that can access your account. Option number two will provide you with your own personal Google phone number. This phone number can be set to forward to any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explore the Museums of the World &#8211; Google Art Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working in instructional technology for the past 10 years. During that time I have experienced the development of some amazing instructional tools. The Google Art Project goes directly to my &#8220;best of&#8221; list of innovative web-based tools! The Google Art Project uses Google Earth street view technology to allow visitors to take virtual tours of the top museums in the world. Visitors can navigate the hallways, zoom in on art work to see the details of the brush strokes, view information about the artist, and build a personal art collection. There are so many great features to this site . I embedded a YouTube video that provides a short introduction to this site. It is well worth the three minutes it takes to view it. The video is from YouTube so if necessary you may to use a firewall override? (Jefferson Teachers please use your firewall login to bypass the filter) Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThNZH5Q1yY]]></description>
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		<title>Search Google by Reading Level</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has developed a powerful new search feature that students and teachers will benefit from. You now have the ability to search by reading level. Google classifies search results by basic, intermediate and advanced reading level. You can choose to only view one of the levels in your result or view all of them with an annotation identifying the level next to each. Finding, managing and qualifying information found online is a complicated task for students to manage. It is however one of the most important skills that a student can develop in the digital age. Many elementary teachers struggle keeping students on task when searching online.  Many times i am asked how do we convince students to narrow their search results and not just trust the first 3 or 5 results that are returned on a search.  By teaching students how to narrow down search results to a reading level that is appropriate for them we provide them with results that are manageable.  When students can  make sense of the materials they are finding th ey are more likely to look at it more critically. They will also find more relevant results on the first page of results. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Docs Editing on Mobile Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has just announced that they will begin supporting the editing of Google Docs on mobile devices. For a while now Google Docs could only be viewed on mobile devices such as Android Phones, the IPhone and IPad.  Google as announced that they will be supporting editing of documents by the end of this week. Here is a snippet from Information Week Magazine: &#8220;According to Google, Android devices running 2.2 Froyo and iOS devices running 3.0+ will be able access these new feature from their device&#8217;s browser. Users will need to navigate to docs.google.com and sign into their account. Once a document is open, users will have to toggle an &#8220;Edit&#8221; button in the nav bar to have access to editing features (as long as they have permission to edit that particular document). Editing features include inline changes to text, the ability to edit tables, and, for Android users, the ability to input text via spoken dictation. Users will also be able to edit spreadsheets.&#8221; Zeman , Eric. &#8220;Google (Finally) Brings Docs Editing To Mobile Devices InformationWeek.&#8221; InformationWeek &#124; Business Technology News, Reviews and Blogs. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. &#60;http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/mobile/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228300058&#38;cid=nl_IW_grok_2010-11-18_html&#62;. Our district has recently begun an implementation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Safe Search and Usage Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two search features that Google offers that I would like to introduce. These features are found in the Google Image Search. We all know that Google is the primary website that our students go to conduct just about all Internet searches. Google Image search is their #1 location for images.  Unfortunately, many of our students do not know the copyright and usage rights associated with images that are found online. We have also found that the images available through Google Image Search are not always appropriate for a school setting or the eyes of a child. Google has included two search setting located in their advanced image search that can help address these issues.  If you visit http://www.google.com and click on Images on the top left of the screen, you will be directed to Google Image Search. Once there you will see a link titled advanced image search located to the right of the search bar. Clicking on this link will direct you to the advanced search menu. Within the advanced search menu you will see two settings that are of interest to this topic. Click on the Image to Enlarge 1. SAFE SEARCH &#8211; Students can select [...]]]></description>
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