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Saturday 19 November 2011

Find texts for use in class with Google

Looking for a text that is suitable for use in class? One that contains multiple grammar points or vocab?

Just put them in to Google! You can fine-tune the results by using the advanced search "reading level" filter and by placing words in quotes (Google has stopped using the plus sign in searches, you can still prefix words with the minus sign).

This technique is similar to way some people use Google to find recipes by entering a list of ingredients. Google has recently made this simpler offering a special page Google Recipes which makes the process even easier.

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar

Have you ever wanted to send yourself an email to be delivered sometime in the future - in a year's time? Well there are a number of services such as FutureMe that allow you to send email messages with a future delivery date. However there's no guarantee that the email will get delivered, the service itself may even exist when the time comes! The risks are less with a flagship Google service such as Google Calendar. which you can use to email you (or even send a free SMS) a message on a date of your choice. Just write you message in the "description" area of the calendar entry.

This technique can be used to send yourself or to your students:
  • New vocab/phrases/clips/pieces of info each day
  • Motivational messages and of course...
  • Reminders (e.g. to help stay on track with a study plan)
If you have a large number of phrases then put them in a (Google Apps) spreadsheet and import them. I'll show how to do this in the next post.

The only drawback to this method that I know of is that the emails arrive formatted as a reminder. It still makes for a useful technique in my opinion.

Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar
Import Google Spreadsheets to Google Calendar

Do you have anything to add? If so please comment below!

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Audio Feedback via email with Google

Are you looking for a quick and easy way to send or receive a personal audio message? Google Talk (Gtalk), Google's alternative to Skype lets you record messages of up to ten minutes and email them as an mp3 file. If the recipient uses Gmail then the audio can even be played directly from the message without needing any extra software (more info on how to use Gtalk to send voicemail).

This could be a useful tool to send or receive homework or task based activities or it could be used for a partial class recording etc. For more ideas see how people are using the audio recording service vocaroo.com

For more control you could send the voicemail to your own email address and forward it (perhaps using a different "from" address). Gtalk also works with Google Apps.

Gtalk is only available for Windows at the time of writing. Although most features are now available in Gmail via a web browser the "Send Voicemail" feature isn't!

Thursday 14 April 2011

Improve searches and English with Google's daily trivia game

Google has a new search page agoogleaday.com where each day a challenge is given at the bottom of the page. If your Google skills are not up to the challenge then clicking "show answer" tells you how you could have used Google to solve the question.

This is not only a great task-based activity (or webquest) but a good way to teach students how to get the best out of Google and indeed other search engines.

Official Google Blog: A trivia game where using Google is allowed

For more Google based games try this page.

Thursday 7 April 2011

Translating a PDF documents with Google

Surprisingly the Google Docs Viewer (the page you see when you click "Quick View" from search results or a PDF attachment in Gmail) does not have translation built-in

You can of course copy and paste the text from the Google Docs Viewer into Google Translate by going to View > Plain HTML and selecting the text to translate. However the best way is pasting the PDF's URL into Google Translate's translation area (where you normally type the words to translate).
Note: the original PDF must have selectable text i.e. it must not be made-up of image files. If you have a small document of this type (e.g. one produced from a scanner) you could try upload it to Google Docs where you can request that Google tries to "read" it with OCR. See this page for more details of Google's OCR scanning limitations.

Thursday 31 March 2011

Quick translations in Google Chrome

Get one click access to Google Translate using the free Chrome extension Mini Translate. Here’s how the author describes the extension:

Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text, directly in your popup. Place or copy some text in your pop-up and hit the translate button. Press the swap button to swap the languages.

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Get it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apcoaebncenbkhggdfcenkhbohpcepih

Tuesday 29 March 2011

Force google.com to use English

If you go to google.com and you are not in the USA you will usually be redirected to a localised page e.g. google.es in the local language.

That's fine but for English learners its better to search in English via the English interface. Doing this will not only improve the search results (or at least return more in English) but the search suggestions (the text that appears as you type) will appear in English too.

Using Google auto-suggest feature in English

Just look for the English link at the bottom of the page or go to google.com/ncr or www.google.co.uk/

Monday 28 March 2011

Use Google to quickly translate a word or phrase

Type translate in to Google (or Chrome's address bar) to translate any word or phrase e.g. type
 
translate rat in spanish
 

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