Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
I’m shocked that Zoom crushed Google in enterprise video conferencing.
Google: 1) owns calendaring, 2) has a video conferencing product, 3) has built video products at incredible scale, & 4) has many of the best engs on earth.
And yet Hangouts is much glitchier/worse than Zoom.
— Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) July 4, 2019
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more on Zoom in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zoom
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/05/weebly-vs-google-sites.html
If you’re not invested in G Suite, then Weebly is a slightly better choice.
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more on weebly in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=weebly
2019 may finally be the year for ‘The Search Engine That Doesn’t Track You’
Drew Millard, Jan 15, 2019
https://medium.com/s/story/nothing-can-stop-google-duckduckgo-is-trying-anyway-718eb7391423
Google Expeditions can be a fairly inexpensive way to present content. Students who have smartphones (Android or iOS) can download the Google Cardboard app and Google Expeditions for free. VR glasses can improve the experience but are not required.
Ideas for using VR in class
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more on Google Expeditions in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+expeditions
https://moz.com/blog/absolute-beginners-guide-to-google-analytics
Kristi Hines June 24th, 2015
a Google Analytics account. If you have a primary Google account that you use for other services like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google+, or YouTube, then you should set up your Google Analytics using that Google account. Or you will need to create a new one.
Big tip: don’t let your anyone (your web designer, web developer, web host, SEO person, etc.) create your website’s Google Analytics account under their own Google account so they can “manage” it for you. If you and this person part ways, they will take your Google Analytics data with them, and you will have to start all over.
go to Google Analytics and click the Sign into Google Analytics button.
Google Analytics offers hierarchies to organize your account. You can have up to 100 Google Analytics accounts under one Google account. You can have up to 50 website properties under one Google Analytics account. You can have up to 25 views under one website property.
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more on Google Analytics in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+analytics
https://www.elektormagazine.de/news/google-ai-voice-kit-big-brother-im-karton
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more on Artificial Intelligence in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artifical+intelligence
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more on microcredentialing in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=microcredentialing
for Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet, the opportunities in the world’s largest internet market may be too good to resist. And the full scope of the company’s interest in China now appears to be broader than just internet search.
The latest hint came from Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun out of Google in 2016. Chinese media noticed this week that the business had quietly registered a Shanghai subsidiary in May, suggesting that it wants a piece of an industry that the Chinese government has made a priority.
Unlike Google, Apple runs its own app store in China, heeding government directives about the kinds of apps that can be available to Chinese users. Microsoft and Amazon offer cloud computing services, working with local partners and following strict controls on how customers’ data is stored.
Baidu, maker of the country’s leading search engine, has made its autonomous-vehicle software platform available to dozens of local and foreign companies. SAIC Motor, China’s largest carmaker, is working with the e-commerce titan Alibaba. BMW and Daimler have received permission in China to test their own self-driving vehicles.
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more on Google and China in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+china
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/05/google-expeditions-updated-with-new.html
Last summer Google added the option for students to explore the VR expeditions on their own.
Like any augmented reality app, the new AR content in Google Expeditions lets students view and manipulate digital content in a physical world context. The new AR content can be used as components in science, math, geography, history, and art lessons. Some examples of the more than 100 AR tours that you’ll now find in the app include landforms, the skeletal system, dinosaurs, ancient Egypt, the brain, and the Space Race.
To use the AR content available through Google Expeditions you will need to print marker or trigger sheets that students scan with their phones or tablets. Once scanned the AR imagery appears on the screen. (You can actually preview some of the imagery without scanning a marker, but the imagery will not be interactive or 3D). Students don’t need to look through a Cardboard viewer in order to see the AR imagery.
You can get the Google Expeditions Android app here and the iOS version here.
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more on GOogle Expeditions in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+expeditions
Other cities have embraced the company, but in Kreuzberg opposition to a planned Google campus is vociferous. What makes Berlin different?
Google’s sites in London, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Seoul, São Paulo and Warsaw (in a converted former vodka distillery) are hubs for entrepreneurs, providing workspace for startup founders as well as networking and educational events.
the recent offer from Sidewalk Labs – a company owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company – to redevelop Toronto’s waterfront as a reason to be concerned about the company’s interests in potentially extracting data from cities.
Google’s history of tax evasion and mass surveillance as examples of actions that make it incompatible with the progressive values of the local area.
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more on Google in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google