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Great tool for creating 3D models of buildings using Google Earth and photos.

Blog post highlighting Creative Book Builder an iPad app that builds books that can embed video, links, pulls Google Docs, etc...

"the Template Gallery contains a number of 'gadgets' which are really useful vocabulary building tools. For example,the Flash Cards spreadsheet gadget allows you to create flash card sets easily and quickly. "

There is a wealth of research to suggest that vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of student academic achievement across all curriculum areas. Experts agree that vocabulary development is an attainable goal. If given the opportunity to receive effective vocabulary instruction, most students can acquire vocabulary at rates that will improve their comprehension and also their chances for success in school. Technology is an effective and engaging tool that can be used to improe vocabulary acquisition for all learners and engage them in the learning process. Google Presentation offers some features that make it an attractive tool for a lesson in which students work collaboratively to construct knowledge about vocabulary by creating vocabulary cards.

I then thought what a great way to build a tech team at our school. To find the kids that are geeky/eager enough to go and find the answers they don't know on their own.

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students.

Join Google and Clarkstown Central School District in this webinar to learn how the district created a collaborative curriculum portal for teachers across all their buildings and campuses using Google Apps Education Edition. Hear what factors helped them decide to "Go Google" and the results they've seen with school staff and students since making the switch.

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. * Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). * Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. * See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. * Save and share Squares with others.

The snoovel Tour Director is the first interactive browser tool to build so called geo movies. In our application you can pull together your gpx-data, kmz-files (e.g. Google Sketchup 3d objects) and all kinds of media (videos , audiofiles, images, texts etc.) to one dynamic Google Earth animation playing inside a webbrowser.

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Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer: Google Apps Education Edition Google Message Security, powered by Postini, is included free for K-12 schools who sign-up by July 2010. No hardware to maintain, no software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools.

"With regard to education, our goal is to leverage Google's strengths and infrastructure to increase access to high-quality open educational content and technology and build communities of support that encourage grassroots proliferation of innovation in education. We now face a new and deep Digital Divide, where students know how to consume technology while others are creating the technologies that will shape our future. It is time to bridge this divide by supporting access to curriculum and educational technology for all students..."

"ush to Deploy automates your build, test and deploy process triggered by your familiar git commands. It makes delivering code changes to your application easy, safe and fast. Furthermore, managing your release on Google Cloud Platform gives you access to the other exciting devops tools such as Log to Source linking. "

Visualise Your Trip WTR's FREE tour generation service let's you build a trip in just a few clicks. Our technicians will then set to work and create a cinematic Google Earth tour of your trip."

Installing Chrome OS on netbooks.

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