Name of Workshop: Google internet searching

Workshop Leader: Masilko Lukas

Workshop Leader's Experience and Background: Lukas has studied informatics at Brno University. He works at Support Centre for Students with Special Needs at the same university. He is a consultant for special IT, he teaches mathmatics and informatics as well.

Country: Czech Republic

Co-tutors (if needed) 	

Description: Shortly: Google, what you may not know about it. The workshop starts with description how to search on Internet, after that will be a short introduction to history of Google. Then I would like to mention why Google is considered to be the best Internet searcher. And finally I'll describe some of other Google services like I'm feeling lucky, Street maps, definitions, calculator, currency conversion etc.

Week: second week

Target group: both together in one group

Type of Workshop: hands on

Aims/Objectives:
1. The workshop's participants will get to know how to gain (on internet) all the necessary pieces of information about some concrete thing. 
2. They will know some interesting things about Google and its services.

Workshop plan: mentioned in Description

Prerequisites: The blind students should be able to work with Jaws and Internet explorer (or some other web browser).

needed Hardware: Connection to internet would be a good thing :-)

Software requirements: Internet explorer or Mozilla firefox