Google - It's Tricky: Google Search & Earth Workshop

I was able to attend the Google Search and Earth Workshop in Ft. Collins yesterday. It was very interesting! Here are a few things I picked up that I thought were cool and/or useful for librarians:

The future of libraries? Samsung seems to think so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT82QJxv_QQ

NBC Learn is a resource that you can subscribe to as an institution (Auraria has a full subscription). It contains over 14,000 short, searchable videos that address a wide range of topic that have been taken from the headlines. Although it is not entirely free, there are also a few selected topics viewable for free.

http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn

Google Lit Trips is a website that contains free downloadable files that follow characters from popular literature using Google Earth. There are places marked on the map that have popup windows containing relevant resources such as media to help start up discussion. It also includes “real world” examples that students can apply. A neat resource.

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Google also has a resource called Search Education, which some of you may be interested in. Geared at educators, it includes lesson plan activites and  “A Google A Day” challenges for all age group. Something some of you may be interested in is the Live Training and free Power Searching classes.
If anything, it will help you fine tune you searching skills in general.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

These are just some things that caught my attention, but like I said, others attended too. Talk to your colleagues who may have attended. Maybe they will be able add some additional info on things that they found interesting that I might have missed.

P.S. There was a 3D printer there as well! I am including a few pics I snapped. Enjoy!