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The World Wonders Project enables you to discover 132 historic sites from 18 countries, including Stonehenge, the archaeological areas of Pompeii and the ancient Kyoto temples. In addition to man-made sites, you can explore natural places: wander the sandy dunes of Australia’s Shark Bay or gaze up at the rock domes of Yosemite National Park in California, Lots of positive buzz on the internet about this new site!
Great list of questions pertaining to SAFETY and SECURITY in Google Apps for Education.
"A 2011 study by Google’s Project Oxygen found that virtually all of the company’s best-performing executives demonstrated eight core leadership skills. Google’s social scientists and statisticians based their findings on over 10,000 observations across more than 100 variables."
"Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training." The site offers access to leveled lesson plans for K-12, search activities from AGoogleADay, and an archive of previous webinars.
Directions on a way to clear out large Gmail messages using a script in Google Docs.
"This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios."
This Google site is intended to provide a assistance for staff and students who are interested in using Google Sites for professional or classroom use. The links on the site provide some instruction and short videos to help you on your digital journey.
"The 40 page guide (embedded below) is designed to help teachers who have never used Google Documents."
If you use multiple choice quizzes for any purpose in your classroom, administering those quizzes through Google Documents and grading them with Flubaroo can save you a lot of time. That's time that you can use for other things like delivering more instruction or building better relationships with students.
"Google has some of the best free educational resources for teachers and students. I am one of the biggest fans of some of his services such as Google plus, YouTube, Bogger, Google docs and many more. The question is do all teachers know about how to leverage these services in education ? Unfortunately not all of them do. Many still relate Google to a sole web engine where you can perform a search query. Yes Google started as a search engine but developed into a multi-task platform offering all the possible services users might think of while browsing the web."
"App Inventor is a great tool to teach programming to high school students. Google Intern, Michelle Hutton, created the following 6 week curriculum. This curriculum is a project based curriculum that allows students to explore the world of computer science through the creation of smartphone apps."
"Google+ has strong potential application in formal learning environments"
The Google Search Stories Video Creator allows you to create a short video about the searches that you perform on Google. To create your video you enter your search terms, select some background music, and let the creator render a video for you.
"A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork."
Search Google Images by drawing what your are looking for.
GE Teach is built around the Google Earth browser plug-in. The purpose of the site is to help teachers develop lessons in which students explore spatial distributions.
"These resources are here for teens, parents, and teachers to learn more about how to use Google+ in a fun, smart, and safe way."
Check out the the lesson plan index and the classroom tools index for links to information about each of the services available to teachers and students as well as tutorial or how-to resources.
"I use them because they work great, are easy to use, integrate with each other, work perfectly on the Chrome web browser and on my Android smartphone, only need a single login for them all and login once on Chrome to get into them all, they are free, there is a huge amount of support available and there are great resources for educators for using these tools in education."
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