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Google Docs newest features

This site has links to a range of tutorials, tips and tricks using all things Google. From translating documents in Google Docs to personalizing Google Maps to checking out a beginners guide to using Google search this is the site for Googleaholics.

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents.

Google Docs can be used as a powerful peer editing tool.

Lesson for using Google Docs and Google Drive

The Google Docs Presentation is well-suited for use as a starting point to help teachers begin to break the barriers of traditional methods of tech integration and design student driven learning experiences that require students to construct knowledge as they create, an idea supported by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Interested in making Quizzes using Form (Google Docs)

"Cloud Connect is a free plugin for Microsoft Office that will enable you to synch your documents to Google Documents. "

Google drive tools

Strategies are provided for classroom integration, creating survey, and science or math activities.

One of my favorite tools to share with students and teachers is Readability . This handy bookmarklet tool scrubs webpages clean of distractions by eliminating the ads and creating a more readable version of digital text. By itself, it's a really useful tool for students, but when combined with Google Docs, it can be an effective and efficient method of taking digital notes.

Spreadsheet app by Andrew Stillman that helps teachers manage shared Google+ docs. explained by Free Tech for Teachers website

"Did you know that you can publish a spreadsheet and embed it in your website or blog? An embedded spreadsheet is a perfect way to display an event calendar, team checklist, or your favorite list of things. Publishing a spreadsheet is really flexible. You can choose which parts of the spreadsheet to share with the world: all sheets, certain sheets, even a range of cells. Any changes you (and other collaborators) make to the spreadsheet will be visible to your website visitors. To make this easier, we've recently added five spreadsheet templates to the templates gallery that have been formatted nicely for websites. "

Great beginning of the school year ideas for use in your classroom.

How many times have you prepared an updated or new dynamic math or science PowerPoint or Keynote presentation for class and it would not open in school? Also, how many times has it happened to your students when it's time to give a class presentation? Now you need to postpone their presentation to another day, disrupting even the best planning.