August 19th - Google Squared

Welcome back from a restful summer! We're back again this year to give you the long and short of educational technology and to bring you the tools and the tricks to help you integrate technology into your classroom.

This week's tool is Google Squared. Our students have all used Google for web searches in the past; Google Squared is a new tool that allows Google to organize search results for you in table form. It's perfect for students' brainstorming activities or organizing concepts or important terms from a unit or the semester.

One of the greatest benefits of this tool is that every department can use it! We tried entering in "Fatty Foods" and got a list of things we should probably avoid (but don't!), we also entered in terms like "British Authors," "Elements," "Math Equations," "Spanish Verbs," "Famous Composer," "Types of Loans," and "World War II" and got a grid with our answers.

Another great component of this tool is that you can add columns with different types of of critera that you want your students to search for (click "Add" on the "add columns" part at the top of the grid). If there is a particular result you do not want simply click on the "X" next to that result and it will be deleted from the grid.

Go ahead, check it out and have some fun with it. If you have any questions we are only a quick email away! See you next week!