going google: an overview of google's ios apps - 102514
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UPDATED: Slides from 10/25/14 SimpleK12.com webinar. An overview of Google's iOS offerings with a focus on the core apps used in my daily instructional life. Apps like Drive, Chrome, Earth, Voice, and Translate are detailed and all other Google iOS apps are mentioned briefly. The archived presentation with full audio can be found here: http://community.simplek12.com/scripts/student/webinars/view.asp?id=1065TRANSCRIPT
Going Google: An Overview of Google’s iOS Apps Simple K12.com webinar - 10/25/14
Chris Casal Technology Teacher, Scarsdale NY Twitter: @mr_casal about.me/mrcasal
Google vs Apple
They may hate each other in public...
...But as far as I can tell they play quite nicely on my iPad...
The apps~25
Some iPhone specific
will run on iPad
Some obscure
orkut - social media platform
Coordinate - mobile workforce management (licensed)
http://www.google.com/mobile/ios/
Google iOS Apps - iPad
Google iOS Apps - iPhone
My Google Apps
My Go-To Google AppsDrive & Chrome
live on my Dock for constant use
Google Voice
iPhone app installed on my iPad for communication
Google Earth - it’s just awesome
Wikipedia integration for location info
Google Translate - not perfect but a great aid & tool for teaching language, grammar, etc
Drive
View your entire “Drive”
Drive
View your entire “Drive”
Create & edit Documents & Spreadsheets
View & share all files
Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Drive launches the individual file-type
apps
Create & edit Documents, Spreadsheets
& Presentations
View, edit & share all files
“Recent tabs” menu
See what tabs you have opened on other
devices you are signed in to Chrome on...
Chrome
Send & recieve texts from iOS app (voice dial on iPhone too)
Voice
http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/iphone/video/google-earth-google-earth-for-ios-demo-4446
Earth
http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/iphone/video/google-earth-google-earth-for-ios-demo-4446
Earth
Translate
Disclaimer: Google isn’t “the best at translating” but its helpful & a great reference (ie: ESL purposes)
Translate between many languages...
... a lot of audio translation available too
Translate
Disclaimer: Google isn’t “the best at translating” but its helpful & a great reference for ESL purposes
Keeps a record of recent translations and allows for “favorites” via
the Starred function
The Basic GoogleGoogle
search engine
site viewer
essentially a browser without an address bar
GMail
mail app
keep iOS Mail account & GMail account separate
open links in other Google apps - ie: Chrome
Easy to get pages open in traditional browsers
GMail
GMail
Customize to allow links to open in other Google apps, not standard iOS
apps
Social Google
Google+
Getting better as a platform
Create Circles to customize your sharing
Hangouts
Fantastic tool for taking “Skyping” to the next level
Conference calls
Record calls
Utilitarian GoogleMaps
never bad to have multiple navigational tools
Latitude
location sharing with others
track classes on trips
not recommended for school use on personal device
I see potential value but it creeps my out a bit...
Summary
Google is smart enough to not alienate it’s users
So is Apple
While the two companies may not play nice, Google’s apps work just as well in iOS as they do anywhere else
No need to forgo one for the other, use both to maximize value & potential of each platform
ContactChristopher M. Casal Technology Teacher
Heathcote School, Scarsdale NY Twitter: @mr_casal Graphite: mrcasal
Diigo: mrcasal www.mrcasal.com
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