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"Online research"
  • Online research
  • just got easier…
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http://www.google.com/notebook
  • Accessibility
  • Citation Aid
  • Organized collection in one place
  • Formatting options
  • Flexible organization
  • Drag & drop
  • Collaborative (can be shared)
  • Publishable (to web)
  • Searchable
  • FREE
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Create a Google Account
  • http://www.google.com/notebook
  • Click “No Google Account: Sign up
  • Complete Create an Account page
  • Open your email account and verify the new google account
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Log in to
Google Account
  • Your email address
  • Password you created
  • Click Sign in
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Download Web Extension
(enables Google notebook within IE)
  • Click Agree and Download
  • If yellow security banner pops up

    Click banner & choose “Download File…”
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Activate Notebook
in Browser
  • Click “Open Notebook” link in lower right corner of IE window
  • The mini-notebook pops up
  • Allows you to “clip” (copy & paste) text, images, links to notebook w/o leaving browser
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How to “Clip”
  • Highlight item on web page
  • Click “Clip” button on mini-notebook
  • Note for content appears in notebook
  • Each note retains:
    • Title of page clipped from
    • URL of page
    • Content of note itself
  • Click drop-down arrow to delete, move etc. note
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Creating a New Note
  • Click “New Note” button
  • In new note
    • Type your own text
    • Clip text from web page
    • Add section header to keep notebook organized
  • Section header has drop-down menu
    • Rename, move, delete header, delete contents
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Comments
  • Under note, click “Add a comment”
  • Comments can be formatted from Notebook home page
    • Tools > Go to my notebook home page
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Tools on Notebook Home Page
  • Options
    • Printing
    • Exporting to Google docs
    • Renaming notebook
    • Deleting notebook
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Organizing Notes
  • Open Notebook home page
  • Place cursor on far left margin of note
    • cursor becomes four-headed arrow
  • Hold left mouse button down…drag and drop to new location
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Sharing Notebook
  • Great for group projects
  • Notebook creator grants access
  • Click “Share Options”
  • Enter email addresses
  • Click Save Settings
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Email Notice
  • After saving, email prompt pops up
  • Type a note to collaborators
  • URL to notebook will be put in automatically
  • Collaborators can be removed later
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Publishing Notebook
  • Click Sharing Options in Notebook
  • Fill in the page options
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Citation
  • Palomar College. “How to Use Google Notebook” 2007. http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/Training/How-to/GoogleTools/GoogleNotebook.htm (08.14.07)