Google Blogger for Teaching and Learning- Last post of the first season!

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 Before anything, thank so much to all of you for visiting my blog and making powerful comments. 

As we all know we should be changing our topic and we were already moved around into other groups. But, before finishing up, I would like to post the very last Google masterpiece for teaching and learning, Blogger. Therefore, this week I will be potentially posting two blogs. You are welcome to read both or just the first for the next topic.

And there is my next question: Is there a specific topic that you would like to see others to build on for the next few weeks? If you have any idea, I will be accepting suggestion. My goal is to really post things that you can take with you as much as I can, instead of just fulfilling the blogging requirement. Thank you in advance for your help. Here is the link for the next blog called gcextensionstl.blogspot.com

Google Maps for Teaching and Learning

Hello virtual classmates! One more additional blog and we will be changing topics. Do you already know which your next focused topic will be? I hope you are thinking about it in the middle of all things you are doing at the same time. But again, thanks for following my blog and making good comments.

This week, I will be focused on Google Maps for teaching and learning. Do you happen to have experience teaching how to use Google Maps?

Google+ or Facebooking? The dilemma of social networking in teaching and learning.

Hello, dear classmates! I hope that you are enjoying our online conversations about this weeks' topic related to "Social Networking!" I believe that at this point in this technological era, social networking maintains a substantial position in our lives. What else could we do if we lack this critical piece of our professional, student, and human-being puzzle? Can you imagine! I do not want to go back to the hours of waiting for a letter response and...Well, I will tell you to imagine how life could be without social networking.

Once again, thank you very much for your comments, ideas, and questions about Google Translate, YouTube, and Books that are always very rewarding and challenging. For this week blog, I would like to maintain the spirit of social networking putting Google+ for teaching and learning on the discussion table!

More About Google Applications for Teaching And Learning

Welcome back, everyone! Once more, thank you very much for your last week's comments and questions. It is gratifying to know that the information I am providing is somehow making you think about how to use it in your instructional field. For me, it has been challenging because now, I am constantly thinking about other experiences I have using Google that have improved or helped in any way my instruction so that I can use them as examples. Before I forget, the images and information I am providing are coming from my creation or experiences, except the videos from YouTube.

This week I would like to dedicate some time to some more Google apps that are very useful in the classroom. Google Translate, Google Books, and YouTube are very handy in K-12 classrooms as well as in  Adult education, without forgetting ESL (English as a Second Language) learners. 

Google Applications for Educators and Learners

Hello Everyone! Thank you so much for last week comments on Google Drive post. I have being getting many positive feed backs about the information I am providing you. I hope the the following posts continue attracting your attention and give more ideas that you can adapt to your instructions.

This week, I am going to talk about Google Applications that are now called GSuit for business users. I found out that to access to this particular group of apps you have to pay. For the purpose of this post, I will be referring to the apps you can access for free using your google account
As some of you already know, I try to combine English instruction with technology while teaching my adult ESL learners to help them adapt to their new way of synchronous and asynchronous communication.

Google Drive: personal data accessibility at your finger tips.

As we have been talking about, Google is an excellent resource for teaching and learning. We already explored the endless possibilities that Google Search can bring to any learning environment and how to use it efficiently. I think it was great! And many of your comments enhanced those ideas with more details and different point of views. Thank you.

This week, I will spend some time with Google Drive and its tools. I hope that by the end of this blog entry and discussion you have a good understanding of Google Drive tools and start thinking about how it can be applied to support any instruction and learning.

Google as an Instructional Search Engine

Welcome back for more about Google!

I have been using google for a long time now, and I imagine that many of you, if not all, use it as well. I open Google when I need to search for different topics, pictures, books, places, and more. But when I think about how my students can use Google search in a way they understand what they are doing and get what they need, it always concerns me. Even though Google makes searching straightforward, we need to remember that word choices and order are highly relevant to the results, and even when doing it right, we might end up getting undesirable content. That has probably happened multiple times to all of us.

Google tools for teaching and learning... what’s that?

Google tools for teaching and learning... what’s that?

This was exactly the expression of one of my ESL adult students when I "revealed the secret" in class about Google tools for teaching and learning just before we went to the computer lab. Everything started like usual, I am always looking for ways to maintain my students engaged and motivated to learn even in tough times. This is the reality, many immigrants that come through the refugee programs, lotteries, by crossing the borders, and more are in many ways in need of adjusting their experiences to a new way of living. One big piece of those adjustments is learning the language.