Google: Considerations for Educators George Siemens University of Manitoba Presented to Contact North April 25, 2008
Google: as an ideology
Google: as a company
Google: as an identity
Crash course in Google history
Google has altered...
How we find information
What we do with information
Where we store information
How we interact with others around information
How does Google make $$?
Google options for Organizations
Google Apps
Google Sites
What does Google offer?
Search
Alerts Search
Earth Search
Desktop Search Search
Images Search
Maps Search
Notebook Search
Scholar Search
Toolbar Search
BookSearch Search
(and misc options like 411, product, finance, etc) Search
Communicate/collaborate
Blogger Communicate/collaborate
Gmail Communicate/collaborate
Orkut Communicate/collaborate
Groups Communicate/collaborate
Docs Communicate/collaborate
Picasa Communicate/collaborate
Reader Communicate/collaborate
Calendar Communicate/collaborate
iGoogle Communicate/collaborate
Talk Communicate/collaborate
YouTube Communicate/collaborate
SketchUp Communicate/collaborate
Mobile
Maps SMS Mobile access Mobile
On your computer
Google Pack Web Accelerator Desktop Search On your computer
Choices Google makes on our behalf...
...but where is this all going?
Google as the centre of the web
Google as media company
Three Stages
1. Google as “sensor” of trends
2. Google as “reactor” to trends
3. Google as “creator” of trends
Impact: Google as Microsoft of the web?
Future Considerations
“Many sites, one API”
Centralizing the decentralized web
Personalizing the impersonal web
Impact of Google on society Privacy Access Identity
Revolution? A changed game.
gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org