Hi you have Mike Reading from the Google Apps for Education Community with this week's Google
Apps for Education News Update.
Well today we've just got four really short updates for you.
The first update is that the Google Apps for Education Community is now open for registrations,
which is fantastic.
The only way to get a registration is to fill out a form and that form is just displayed
on the screen for you right now.
If you're just listening to an audio version of this news update then just head over to
www.gafecommunity.com and you'll also find a form there to fill out.
The second update that we have for you is just inside Google docs.
You might have noticed if you have typed some text and then gone onto change the color of
that text that the text color and the text highlight color are now combined into one
button.
If you're using Gmail you'll also notice that that's the case when you are formatting your
text.
The other update inside Google docs is when we're inserting a hyperlink now Google will
give us a suggestion based on the highlighted text.
So you can see here we have some search results.
We can also see that there is a couple of drive results and if you click on the little
arrow just here this will open up that document in a new window for you.
If you click on the find more button just here you'll see that what will happen is that
you'll have a research bar just open here and you can use that as you would normally
use Google Research.
The third update that we have for you is in Google Sites.
Now just put up a demonstration site that I used a while back for a school.
If I click on the edit button now just say I wanted to insert a slideshow or a photo
from Picasso usually what you would do is you would click on insert and then you could
click on these gadgets and so just here you'll notice that Picasso has now gone.
To get your photos and web albums into a Google Site now what you need to do is click on the
Google + logo just here and that will open up your photos and your photo albums for you
and you can insert them that way.
Now some people are saying that this is going to be the end of Picasso.
I'm not so sure but maybe the writing is on the wall.
I guess we'll find out in due course.
The last update that I want to show you is around Google Search.
This last update is only available in America at the moment and only for English searches
but a little trick that not a lot of people know is that if you type into your web address
www.Google.com/ncr that will force Google to go to www.Google.com and not divert back
to your countries homepage.
What Google has done is they've given us an update that now includes in-depth articles.
So, one of the search suggestions that they have given us is on the word censorship.
So if we just type censorship in here and let it search for it, if you go right to the
bottom of the page you'll notice that there is a section here now called in-depth articles.
Now there's two ways that I can see this working in education.
The first way, obviously is, sometimes students want more in-depth information, and that is
just an easy place to go and fins it.
But also from a teaching and learning point of view we could start to use these in-depth
articles to just talk to the students about how they write the content that they write
and so on.
If you go over to the Google Search Blog you'll find a link there that explains how they decide
what is an in-depth article and what needs to be in place for that to be considered as
part of this extra search feature.
\ So that's all the news we have for you this
week.
We'd love you to head over to www.GoogleAppsforedu.com, which is a blog where we share all our ideas,
tips, and tricks.
If you have any questions about any of the news updates or if you've found something
that we might have missed then we'd love you to just drop us a comment in the comment section
below this video or this audio.
Thanks for watching and thanks for listening.