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This is an example of how a teacher uses Google Docs in her classroom. Although, these students are in high school, Google Docs can be used with younger students too -- Google docs fosters collaboration and provides opportunities for you to give students frequent feedback.

Learn how to use Google Docs

Need help organizing files on Google drive? Read this

"iKeepSafe is dedicated to the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with Google to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible digital citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. Each workshop contains a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation."

Use of Google Apps for Education in SDUSD information site.

Various lessons on how to use Google Apps in the classroom.

National Writing Project (NWP) is a site dedicated to digital writing. Educators can read articles, explore resources, and submit their own publications. The sub links from Google are: About - Since it is hard to filter information via internet, sites must be trusted. This is especially important for educators wanting to incorporate what they find on the internet into their lessons. NWP is a networking community that comes together to provide, "Professional development, develop resources, generate research, and act on knowledge to improve the teaching of writing and learning in schools and communities."

Here is a great article with links to sites that offer free educational videos  This is the 1st time I am using Diigo to share and hope I am doing it successfully.  Kimberly

This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

A ton of great formative assessment tools. Check out the pros and cons of each.