If you happened to miss Google’s official online course last month for some reason, you can still take advantage of and access the online class work from ‘Power Searching with Google’. The online course work lets you test, practice, and improve your search skills in a series of six classes.
Each class is broken down into multiple lessons with videos, text (document) versions of the videos, short presentation summaries of each video, and activities to test your growing search skills. For our screenshots we will focus on Class 2, Lesson 1…
Here is what the page for each class looks like. The individual lessons and associated activities for each lesson are listed on the left side with the video for that lesson as the main focus. You can access the text version of the video for each lesson in the upper right corner if desired (button outlined in red).
Note: The text and presentation versions will open in Google Docs.
The first part of the text (document) version for the video from Class 2, Lesson 1. You can access the presentation for the lesson using the link at the top of the document (outlined in red).
A quick look at the presentation for Class 2, Lesson 1. The wonderful part about the online course work is that you can use as much or as little as needed while working your way through each class.
You can access the online classes, text (document) versions, presentations, and activities without a Google account, so hurry on over and start strengthening those search skills!
Power Searching with Google Course Homepage
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