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Higher education conferences over the past few years have been full of presentations, papers and panels on the processes involved in migrating a campus and its people to Google Apps for Education. While it is useful to hear about marketing tchotchkes, data validation, and the pros and cons of web clients, what seems to get ignored is the process that led to the decision to move to Google Apps in the first place. At North Carolina State University, where students were already using Google Apps, the decision to move employees involved almost as much time, effort and heartache as the technical migration. As the users saw it, they had a working system, even if that system only worked because of huge expenditures of time and money both on the backend server maintenance and the client need to implement terribly complex workarounds for simple functionality. The end result: a 94-page white paper and the realization that it's hard to sell ice to Eskimos1 , even if you show them that their ice has already melted. This paper and presentation will discuss the information gathering and needs assessment done by NC State prior to the decision to move employees to Google Apps, and the successes and difficulties involved.

This guide avoids some of the obvious things, like using Google Docs for collaborative writing, and instead focuses on some of the lesser-used Google tools options like publishing an online quiz using Google Docs. In all there are 33 pages containing 21 ideas and how to instructions for creating Google Maps placemarks, directions creating and publishing a quiz with Google Docs forms, directions for embedding books into your blog, and visual aids for accessing other Google tools.

Bboogle is software that lets you embed Google Documents (including spreadsheets, and presentations) , Google Calendars and Google Sites in a Blackboard course site. Everyone with access to the course can get to linked Google content without logging in a second time. Students and instructors are automatically added as collaborators to the documents, even if they join after the link is made.   Bboogle is also an open source project that you can join. We are looking for skilled developers and educational institutions who want to contribute time to creating the best possible connection between Google Apps and Blackboard. Please see our list of Frequently Asked Questions at  FrequentlyAskedQuestions?

"Google Sites is a powerful but easy to use tool to create great websites. In this class we will cover the basics of setting up a classroom or organization website using Google Sites including a welcome page, calendar page, files page, links page, pictures page, announcement (blog) page, and more. This class will help you transition your existing site over to Google Sites, or help you start a new Site from scratch, or just give you a great introduction to what can be done with Google Sites."

Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans. Have a Google Apps lesson plan? Submit it for review.

If you've embedded a form created with a Google Apps account, people attempting to submit to the form from outside of your domain will encounter a Google Apps sign in page. You can make these forms publicly accessible by removing the following portion of the form's URL: a/yourdomain.com

Helen Barrett Google Apps Authoring Tool Comparison

"Welcome to the Google Apps Education Training Center. This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context."

Google guide to accessibility http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/a-google-guide-to-google-apps.html#.UFsIMY1lSyo

 two day event focuses on deploying, integrating and using Google Apps 

Here's a very slick new tool that allows students and teachers to share a Google Doc or Presentation, record themselves along side the presentation or doc and email or embed the video on a blog. It's called Movenote, and it's free.

WHAT'S NEW???- New Look for Sites, Docs & Calendar-color coding Calendar-appointment slots in Calendar-Sites have page level permissions-share Google Search stuff-labs going away :(-YouTube-Google+

Use building android apps to build "will be logic and reasoning skills as well as the ability to leverage technology to get things done quickly, efficiently, and in a completely individualized way."

Google Spreadsheet is a powerful and free tool to manage complex spreadsheets. This tutorial illustrates ten useful formulas you must know to help you simplify the way you work in Google Spreadsheet.

CloudCourse is a course scheduling system. Built entirely on App Engine, CloudCourse allows anyone to create and track learning activities. It also offers calendaring, waitlist management and approval features. CloudCourse is fully integrated with Google Calendar and can be further customized for your organization with the following service provider interfaces (replaceable components): * Sync service - to sync CloudCourse data with your internal systems * Room info service - to schedule classes in your locations * User info service - to look up user profile (employee title, picture, etc) CloudCourse has been developed in Python, using the Django web application framework and the Closure Javascript library.

Like any good spreadsheet program, Google Spreadsheets supports a wide array of built-in functions.There are old standbys like SUM and AVERAGE. Mathematical, financial or statistical functions to help you crunch numbers. Even functions that manipulate dates and text. Enter them manually, or use the formulas tab to find the functions you need.

Tip 81 - Google Docs Self Check Quizzes

Tracks - I've tried a number of task tracking software, I've even tried creating my own task tracking software in OneNote and Evernote.  Unfortunately every system/app I tried fell over and I stopped using it. That is when I found Tracks.  Tracks is an open source software (free) that is built to work with the GTD system for organization.  Whether you are a follower of GTD or not, the software is simple, well written, and has the core things that you need to stay on top of your tasks.  Other software tends to have so many features that the core purpose of the software gets lost.  For go the features and use this software, it works.  I signed up for a free account at My.GTDify.com.  I also downloaded the Android app called Shuffle and have it syncing with my online account.  You can even have it sync with your Google calendar.

timelapse photography made easy, especially for mobile devices. "Take a photo every day, week or month and build it into a time lapse video for you to share with your friends. - Watch yourself change over time" from Scout Report