Our TEACHAPALOOZA friend Vanessa Schneider at Google shared amazing tools with us including:

Storytelling with Google’s Geo Tools – Tutorial site:

http://bit.ly/geomedialab

Getting started with Fusion Tables – Tutorial site:

http://bit.ly/FTworkshop

Movie Making with Google Earth – Tutorial site:

http://bit.ly/kmltouring

Teachapalooza Demo Data (for practice!):

http://bit.ly/teachadata

Google Media Tools:

http://google.com/mediatools

Google Media Mailing list:

http://g.co/GoogleMediaAlerts

Let’s take a closer look at  Google Public Data .
This powerful search tool makes it easy to look at thousands of data sets from around the globe.

GOOGLE TRENDS

Google trends can help you find out what people are searching for.
Not only can you find out what’s hot, you can find out what is hot where you are.

Google Trends can also tell you WHEN people search for certain topics.

Google Trends Visualize
See what his hot in a constantly updated visual.

Google Charts
This is a way to visualize data