Hipster Google — Tools You Probably Never Heard Of

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this session is to explore a wide range of lesser known Google tools that educators and students can use for teaching, learning, creating, collaborating, exploring, and expressing their knowledge. Throughout the session I will explain and demonstrate each tool, giving examples of how they can be used in schools, and allowing the attendees to explore the tools as well if they wish.
In this session we look at over 50 lesser-known Google tools. Even though these tools are less known than Docs and Slides and Sheets, they provide students with fun, engaging, and powerful tools for learning. Students can expand and deepen their searching skills with tools including nGram, Google Scholar, reverse image search, Trends, Google Arts and Culture, and more. Students can also express their learning through creativity tools such as Tour Builder, Tour Creator, Autodraw, Toontastic, Chrome Music Lab, Story Speaker, Meme Buddy, and more. This wide collection of tools empowers students to have so much greater choice when selecting how they want to learn, explore, collaborate, and create to share their learning.

Attendees will:
Learn about a large variety of Google tools they can use right away with their students for teaching and learning.
See creative ways the online tools can allow students to be creative, work together, and communicate their learning.
See the benefit of free resources that can be used by any school.

Outline

In this session we will cover a wide range of lesser known Google tools. For some tools we will spend several minutes to try out the tool and see how it can be used in schools. For other tools we will mention them briefly to expose the attendees to the tools. New tools are added frequently, so this list may change, but at the moment the tools to be covered would include the following:
Ngram Viewer, Google Scholar, Instant Search Cards, Reverse Image Search, Google Trends, Google Alerts, Power Searching with Google, Be Internet Awesome, Google Dictionary, Art Palette, LIFE Tags, Talk to Books, Tour Builder, Tour Creator, Google Earth, Landlines, Timelapse, Google Maps Planets and Moons, Access Mars, Google Fonts, Quick Draw, AutoDraw, Toontastic, Poly, Cardboard Camera, Meme Buddy, Androidify, Chrome Music Lab, Groove Pizza, Mix Lab, AI Duet, Inside Music, Semi-Conductor, Story Speaker, Chrome Canvas, Just a Line, Canned Responses, Google Translate Mobile App, Share to Classroom, Google Cast for Education, Data GIF Maker, Google Keep, Google Arts & Culture, Mystery Animal, Science Journal, OK Go Sandbox, Semantris, Grasshopper, Applied Digital Skills, Digital Garage, Tune

Supporting research

The tools addressed in this session cover such a wide range of resources, there would not be just one specific supporting research source. However, the value of these tools can be seen in the article I wrote on this topics on my blog at:
https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2017/03/hipster-google.html
This post has consistently been one of the most accessed resources on my site with close to 100,000 page views for this article. In addition, the video training I recorded for this content at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWaDXrb8Ync has over 4,000 views.
In short, schools are often limited by budgets and struggle to find resources to allow their students to learn and create with technology. This session helps address this common need by demonstrating over 50 engaging, but free, lesser-known Google tools that can be used in schools.