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Keep students connected to your curriculum from home and back.
Posting assignments and lessons online can help students catch up or review if they are absent from school. And giving students "all the time" and "at anytime" access to the learning helps with time budgeting and life long learning skills.

"Search Tricks

These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away."

Google SketchUp Teacher Guide

FUN projects you can use in your classroom, using FREE Google SketchUp software

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Google Certified TeacherThe Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region. "

Google Teacher Academy in DC

Application now open for GTA DC, December 9th, 2009.
Apply by midnight on November 9th, 2009.

what it is and a link to sign-up for it

Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer:
Google Apps Education Edition

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.

We've heard many ingenious ways that teachers have used Google Docs in the classroom. Here are just a few:

* Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc.
* Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet.
* Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths.
* Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students' timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet.
* Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class.
* Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share.
* Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document.
* Track and organize cumulative project data in a single spreadsheet, accessible to any collaborator at any time.

Funny, funny picture of how Google will rule the earth!

In this workshop, participants will discuss what Google Documents are and then create a project. Google Applications is a tool which has many uses inside and outside the classroom. It can be used for collaborative writing, revising documents and presentations, and sharing and publishing student work online.

Google Docs is one of the favorite free online services for creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. There are different ways to upload a file to Google docs service from your desktop like web upload or using an desktop uploader. So here are the easiest way to upload files to Google Docs.