TCEA+Google+Academy

= TCEA Google Academy = reported by Lydia Shipley 2/7/2011

https://sites.google.com/a/tcea.org/google-academy-2011/home

This free academy provided sessions in three different strands:
 * 21st Century Education with Google
 * Advanced Google
 * Google for IT Administrators.

Featured presenters included Google experts, Google Certified Trainers and fellow educators that have deployed Google Apps in their schools/districts.

The morning keynote was Leslie Fisher. She shared a lot of fun facts as well as tips and tricks with Google. Here are a few: 
 * Google originators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, intended to use the name Googol but ended up misspelling it and then decided to stick with it when the domain name for Google was available but Googol was not!
 * Google has a sense of humor
 * Google graphic changes on holidays. On those days, you can click on the Google logo and it will probably take you to a related page. The latest is TODAY (February 8, 2011)
 * Try typing "find Chuck Norris" into the Google search box (including the quotation marks) and then click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" box




 * Street view in Google - There is actually a car or bike or even a snowmobile that drives around recording the images for Street View.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">People on Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh, PA found out when the Google car was going to be coming down the street, so they staged people along the street scatting out various scenarios. See if you can find the marching band!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The entire work force from the Google Campus came out to greet the Google car.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Google Labs** has a lot of things that are //still being developed//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.googlelabs.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google City Tours in Google Labs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://citytours.googlelabs.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can create your own
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Goggle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take a picture of a landmark and Google Goggle will give you info about the landmark
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Try a picture of a piece of art, a picture of a book, a picture of a business card
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not everything works so well, but the suggestions above are the best options for now
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Voice-
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">provides you with a phone number
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">will do voicemail
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">messages go to gmail and also provides an audio file
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Scribe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://scribe.googlelabs.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Get autocomplete suggestions as you type
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google News Timeline
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">A web application that organizes information chronologically. Google News Timeline allows users to view news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and more on a zoomable, graphical timeline
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Fast Flip
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Blindingly fast overviews of headline pages of top newspapers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Squared
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.google.com/squared
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Fetch and organize facts from across the web. Google Squared automatically constructs a table of facts about any category you specify.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Google Body
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Google Goats
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.html
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> In an attempt to lessen their carbon footprint, Google will occasionally bring goats onto their campus instead of lawn mowers