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 70 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 Google Earth Projects, Autodraw, Toontastic, Chrome Music Lab, 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.

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, Socratic, Talk to Books, Tenor, VR and AR models in mobile search, Fact Check Tools, Google Lens, Google Earth, Landlines, Timelapse, Earth View, Google Maps Planets and Moons, Access Mars, The Wilderness Downtown, Floom, Google Fonts, Quick Draw, AutoDraw, Toontastic, Meme Buddy, Chrome Music Lab, Groove Pizza, AI Duet, Inside Music, Semi-Conductor, Blob Opera, Tone Transfer, Listen to Transformer, Paint with Music, Assisted Melody, Chrome Canvas, Just a Line, Verse by Verse, The Nonsense Laboratory, Chimera Painter, Scroobly, Monster Mash, Emoji Kitchen, Google Translate Mobile App, Data GIF Maker, Live Transcribe, Sound Amplifier, Look to Speak, Google Recorder, Google Arts & Culture, OK Go Sandbox, Semantris, Puzzle Party, Visual Crosswords, Cultural Crosswords, Art Coloring Book, Grasshopper, Applied Digital Skills, Digital Garage, Tune, Read Along, Stack, Measure Up, Google Phishing Quiz, Mindful Break

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. 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 70 engaging, but free, lesser-known Google tools that can be used in schools.