And so begins the Great Google Expedition. As we take history tours/trips from Concord to Boston there will be new posts on this Google blog. My job here, (other than blogging about the trip from a student's point of view) is to use various Google products to increase the quality of this website and (most likely) promote Google. Currently, we are using Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, Google Sites, Google Maps and Blogger to make this site better. (P.S. I'm using Google headphones right now and typing this on a Google app.)
Going back on topic, these tours and use of Google is also to show that the Internet and various pieces of technology can be used in the school environment to the advantage of the students. On the video I created on YouTube for Paul Revere's Ride (you can view it on this website homepage) I have found a good number of students commenting on it, thanking me for posting it and telling me how it helped them for their Paul Revere assignments for school. There are also 3D models of the buildings available for viewing on Google Earth and this website has been optimized to be viewable on smart phones and phones with Internet capabilities. In my English class my teacher also posts our week's homework on a Google Doc, in Algebra 2 our teacher projects answers from an iPad onto a projector, and in Biology in a Google Site it has our homework and we use Blogger for our experiments. In other words, schools are slowly integrating technology into their systems and this blog is to further support this.
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