Additional Information on my Response to Ariel's "Google" Post

Ariel had written a great post about "the power of Google". I LOVE Google-- I think it's free applications including Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Google Sites, etc. is extremely beneficial and that we are all fortunate to be able to utilize these applications for free! There are tons of things to explore on Google and I learn something new everyday, whether it's using the search engine or exploring their many apps.

As I commented on Ariel's Google post, one of my favorite things about Google is that a user can upload an image they have and then Google will give them information on the picture they uploaded. I love that you can research this way instead of typing in words. For instance, if I was teaching a class and didn't provide the name of the artist, perhaps the date is was created, I could drag this image right into Google and it would provide the information for me! I screenshot an example below.

Once you go to "images" in google, there will be a small camera icon near the right hand side of the search bar. Once you click on that, this box pops up (above). There, you can upload an image such as this:

If this was on one a Powerpoint about Impressionists and then a student asked me who created it and I was unsure, I could just upload it to Google and it would bring me directly here:

Ta-da! Mary Cassatt painting this, and she was an American painter and printmaker.

 A great project idea based on this search tool:

Give students a specific piece of art and have them infer what art movement it is from, the time period, the artist, etc. By just looking solely at the image, they will have to come up with their own conclusions and use their own prior knowledge. They will have to think critically about what is in front of them. Then, instead of giving them the answers themselves, have them plug it into the Google Images search to see what one of their conclusions were right. You could base a project loosely on this idea.  To my fellow students, how could you use this in your own content area?