Google hangout is where you can video chat your friends or chat by text. I was able to video chat for about a second and then my iPad crashed. So I really haven't tried it.
Today we looked at google doodles. Google doodles are the doodles on the google logo when it is special occasions. We also looked at winners of the google doodle contest. My favorite was the peanut detector. It was by far my favorite out of any of the winners. It reminds me of my drawing abilities.
Last Thursday we looked at a bunch of different google apps. Th first one we looked at was google shopping. In google shopping you can type in anything and google will find the best matches of it that you can buy. So kinda like amazon, but google shows different websites that sell them. Next we used the news app. The news app lets you look at different news articles from different websites. After that we learned about the alerts app. I really didn't mess around with the alerts app, but what it does is you set an alert for a certain time and when the time comes it sends an alert. And finally we learned about google translate. You can type in a sentence and English then select another language to translate that sentence (examples: Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.). And those are the apps we learned about last Thursday.
On Tuesday we learned about Google Maps. Google Maps shows you the world. You can look at a map, a satellite (which is what pictures of the earth from satellite), and you can go to street view (which lets you go on the streets of places in the world). It also let you put a beginning and end destination in, and it shows you how long it would take to get there (car, walking, bike, bus). I thought it was pretty cool to see our hometown in satellite and street view.
last week we used Google Drive. We used google docs to do a conversation with another person, we typed in questions ,which would come up on the other persons screen, then we would answer them. Though it was really difficult to work it in the iPad though, sometimes it wouldn't let me type. Though the way that it showed the person typing was really neat.
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