Jim Sill

Classroom Teacher

Visalia, CA

2:00 - 2:45

Making Information Work for You Using Google Search

In this fast-paced workshop you will learn how to stop searching the internet for quantity and start getting quality.  Jim is a Google Certified Teacher and will be sharing some of the tricks, tips, and lessons from his Google Workshop for Educators sessions. Take these tools back to your classroom on Monday and help your students to spend less time scouring the internet for information and more time producing great content.

Narrow Your Results

• More shopping sites and Fewer shopping sites
• Past hour and Specific date range
• Visited pages and Not yet visited
• Books, Blogs and News
• Timeline 
• Wonder Wheel

Dare to click Advanced Search

• File Types
• Usage Rights
• Search within a Site

Real Time Results

• Weather
• Time
• Travel
• Conversions and more!

Sign in to Google and remember your results

• Comment
• Promote
• Remove

• http://www.google.com/cse/
• Create your own Custom Search for yourself or with your class & colleagues.

For your review:

Search Lessons from Google Certified Teachers

Google Insights for Search
A greatCheat Sheet.
Bonus: Posters for your classroom.

After almost a decade in the television and film industry, Jim hung up his producer hat and embarked on a career in the classroom. Using his industry experience, he has created an award winning video production program at El Diamante High School in Visalia, CA.  As a Google Certified Teacher and Apple Certified Trainer, Jim leads professional development workshops on topics which include Using Video for Social Change, Digital Storytelling Techniques, and Using Google in the Classroom. In 2009, Jim was awarded The Computer Using Educator (CUE) Outstanding Teacher award and nominated for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Outstanding Teacher Award.

Twitter: mistersill

Google Site: tinyurl.com/MisterSill

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