As longtime readers of this weblog know, my background is basically in social research with a smattering of educating pc science and doing a little company coaching. It is educating social research that can all the time be my first skilled love. I’ve additionally been utilizing Google Workspace instruments with college students (beforehand G Suite, beforehand Google Apps, beforehand Google Drive, beforehand only a assortment of Google instruments) for fifteen+ years. These are my three favourite Google instruments for social research lecturers.
Google Earth
Google Earth is accessible in two variations. The Professional model is the model that you could set up in your desktop. That is the model that I choose if given a alternative as a result of it contains extra options that the net browser model. And whereas there are work-arounds for the net model, the Google Earth Professional is lots higher for recording narrated excursions. Yow will discover my playlist of Google Earth tutorials right here.
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Google Books
That is an usually missed search instrument. Google Books offers college students with entry to tens of millions of free books and periodicals. Google Books actually shines whenever you begin on the lookout for work that was printed within the nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century. Probably the greatest options of Google Books is the flexibility to look inside a ebook for a phrase or key phrase. Discover ways to use Google Books by watching these tutorial movies.
Google Scholar