Ankush Singh

Effective Ways to Use Google for Education In an era where getting connected has become the ultimate goal, people from around the globe are vigorously working on creating a better way/platform for every man or women to connect to entire world. And education technology has been benefitted a lot if not most, by this new age tech-revolution. With leading players like Apple iPad and Google Apps For Education, getting educated has become more fun, affordable and at the same time globalized than ever. ng h In this article, will be taking a look on how using Google for education can be a game changer for anyone. Thanks to Google, anyone can now be a ‘Scholar’ ku s h Si Google Scholar is one of the best tools created by Google to support the problem solvers of the world and making them even more efficient. It is a free to access, web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature and that too in a varied arrangement of publishing formats and disciplines. The best thing about Google Scholar is its inclusion of most peer-reviewed online academic journals & books, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and even court opinions and patents. While Google never officially publicizes the size of Google Scholar's database, there has been third-party researches that estimated Google Scholar to contain approximately 160 million documents as of May 2014. A Classroom for everyone to fit in An The Google Classroom is blend of several Google Apps such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar etc. that aims to provide a simplified solution to creating, distributing and grading of assignments within an educational institution in a paperless way. Google Classroom unlike other Google services, does not show any sort of advertisements whatsoever in its interface. Even the user data is not scanned or used for advertisement purposes which makes the rotation of academic data such as assignments and questionnaires through Google Classroom safer. Moreover it also offers teachers the option to archive entire courses at the end of a year. The archived data is then accessible to the teachers and the students but cannot be altered or edited without restoring, thus preventing the possibility of the course material being tampered without getting into proper notice. Being Alert and aware are key to learning something new Si n Distant group studies made easy with Hangouts gh Thanks to Google, now you need not worry about staying updated in your field of academics and interests, Google Alerts does all the heavy lifting for you. Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service that notifies you through emails whenever it finds new results; be it web pages, newspaper articles, blogs or scholarly researches that match your search. Moreover, Google Alerts may also come in handy when you want to keep a track of who is talking about you (your blogs, articles etc.) or when you are all set to go on job hunting or when you want to get a glimpse of the trending events happening worldwide. Being apt and time saving are the prime feats of Google Alerts which makes it one of the most important services that Google has to offer. ku s h Google Hangouts is a communication platform that includes instant messaging, video chat and SMS features, thus eliminating its counterparts in an open competition. The best features of Hangouts is its ability to perform on both online (using Gmail/Google+) and offline (as telephonic messaging) mode. On top of that it allows conversation between two or more users. It can be stated as the future of Google’s telephony product. Why waste paper, when you have Google Books? An Google Books is a service provided by Google that searches Google’s digital database for complete text of books and magazines that Google has scanned and converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR). Using Google Books means that you do not waste anymore paper and thus do not harm the nature. Moreover you need not carry huge and bulky collection of books to read from during your travels. In short, the Google Books initiative offers unprecedented access to the world’s largest growing online body of human knowledge. Gmail, the new synonym for email Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google that can be accessed on the web and through the mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through various third-party programs. It currently comes with 15 gigabytes of free storage and enables you to receive emails up to 50 megabytes in size, including attachments. However, you may send or receive larger files by inserting them into Google Drive through Gmail. It has revolutionized the conventional email platforms. Limitless Sharing gh Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service that allows you to store files in the cloud, thus enabling you to synchronize and share the same files across devices. It can be accessed through a dedicated website and even with apps with offline capabilities for Windows OS & Mac OS computers, Android & iOS smartphones and tablets. Google Moreover it comes with 15 gigabytes of free storage, with 100 gigabytes, 1 terabyte, 10 terabytes, 20 terabytes and 30 terabytes offered through optional paid plans. You may even upload files up to 5 terabytes in size. An ku s h Si n Google is steadfast in creating a futuristic platform for the conventional education system. Nevertheless, to criticize or to embrace its achievements is solely a matter of individual opinion.