Google Audio Indexing Behold the future: “Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken. ” Is this why Goog411 was free? ;) tags: gaudi, audio, google
Google Moderator From the announcement: “Google Moderator is a small application initially created for submitting and voting on the questions for Google’s tech talks.” In essence you can add questions and ask others to vote on which questions you’ll ask. I suppose it doesn’t have to be questions they vote on though right? tags: googlemoderator
10th Birthday Not to be missed: “Google’s 10th birthday celebration. Check out our interactive timeline, Project 10 to the 100, and stories about how to use our products.” tags: google
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Forgotten attachment detector This should win some kind of award for funniest and most useful feature: “Many of us have experienced the embarrassment of having sent a message without attaching the file we said we were going to attach. Turn on the Forgotten Attachment Detector in Labs, and you’ll get an alert if you mention attaching a file but forget to do so.” tags: gmail
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat From Emily Chang, gmail engineer: “I can see both my Labels and my Chat buddies at the same time, with one on the left and one on the right.” In gmail, click on settings and then labs to enable this feature. tags: gmail
Official Google Docs Blog: Calling all teachers: Share your ideas and projects We want to collect your example projects and ideas for how to best use Google Docs (documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms) in the classroom. We’ll collect your ideas and share them with all educators on our Docs page on the Google for Educators site. tags: googledocs
Official Google Docs Blog: It’s about communication, not the tool From the introduction: “A few weeks ago, Tom Barrett wrote about how he introduces Year 5 students to Google Docs. This week he shares some common challenges teachers face when students begin working together on collaborative projects.” tags: googledocs
Google “In Quotes” Enter a topic in the search box to see what the candidates say about the topic… in their own words. Google returns only direct quotes. This is a great way to learn about the issues for the upcoming election. Share this with your students. :) tags: google, politics
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