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Google News and Updates (4:25)

• Gmail will create links to contact info
  • How it works: Clicking an address link will take the user to Google Maps. Clicking an email address will compose a new email, using the user’s default email client. Finally, when using a mobile device, clicking a phone number will start a call request using the default phone app.
• View the world through someone else's lens in Google Earth

Featured Content (7:34)

Google Drawings allows you to add some color to your documents, presentations, and websites with easy to create charts and diagrams. However, Matt and Kasey provide you with some additional applications for you and your students.

• Visual Thinking with Google Drawings
  • Power of images and text on the brain (dual coding)
  • Google Drawings: like a digital poster board (or paper)
  • Only tools: lines, shapes, text and images
  • Annotate on images
    • Example: Tres de Mayo painting annotation
    • Take a snapshot and add speech bubbles
  • Photo comic strips
    • Mike Petty’s site on photo comic strips
  • Create infographics
    • Icons: The Noun Project (thenounproject.com)
    • An example infographic: DitchThatTextbook.com/hunter
    • Create eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings
  • Graphic organizers
    • 15 free graphic organizer templates

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