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This is the help page that tracks all of the new features in Google Classroom.

Tammy Worcester Tung is full of google resources and how-tos

video on using google draw to create mind maps

Jott can be used by students to help keep themselves organized. The voice-to-text services enable users to call in reminders to themselves, send e-mails or text messages to group sof people, create posts, create a schedule on a google calendar, listen to their Google calendar, listen to their e-mail, and even listen to podcasts and webpages on the go. http;//dial2do.com will work very much the same as Jott.

Kathy Schrock's diagram using Google Tools and Bloom's Taxonomy.

This slide shows you how to create youtube interactive videos with links to other videos topics.

How to link youtube videos is a really good step by step to help teachers who create videos and then want to link them together to allow students to click on designated annotations that allow the viewer to move between different videos and topics.

Google directions for syncing contacts your iOs device

"Mind maps are great organization tools that students can use to structure and visualize their ideas and thoughts. They can be used for a variety of educational purposes. For instance, students can utilize them in pre-writing tasks to brainstorm ideas around a given topic. They can also be used as synthesis tools to enhance reading comprehension. As we have argued elsewhere, Mind mapping is proved to boost a number of key thinking skills that include creating, synthesizing and analyzing information. In today's post, we are re-sharing with you this handy chart comprising some of the best digital tools to use in class to create visually appealing mind maps. We have categorized these applications into tools that work on Google Drive and the web, iPad apps and Android apps. Check them out and share with us your feedback. "

Flubaroo is a site created by a teacher for teachers. It works with google docs (forms) to grade student assignments.

This is a very cool tool.

Interesting Ways includes ideas for using Google Tools, including forms, docs, earth, searching, and maps. It also includes information on ipads in the classroom, IWB, Ipod touch, class blog posts, mobile phones, audio, video camera, QR codes, reading, creative commons, writing, internet safety gaming, wordle, twitter, voicethread, prezi, moodle search engines, wallwisher and wikis.

This blog post shares 10 forms that can be used by teachers with their class.

This blog post shares 10 forms that can be used by teachers with their class.

Kathy Schrocks guide to everything includes google apps to support blooms revised taxonomy and droid apps to support blooms revised taxonomy. There are also web 2.0 to support blooms revised taxonomy.

Search Credible is a search service that allows you to access 26 different search engines from one location. Included in the list of search engines Search Credible searches are Wolfram Alpha, EBSCO, ERIC, and the usual suspects such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. To use Search Credible just enter your search term(s) then click on the search engine of your choice. Thanks to Richard Byrne.

When it comes to family safety, we aim to: *Provide parents and teachers with tools to help them choose what content their children see online *Offer tips and advice to families about how to stay safe online *Work closely with organizations such as charities, others in our industry and government bodies dedicated to protecting young people

scribblemaps lets users create custome maps and share them. Users don't need a login to create a map. Students can add text and pictures to the information boxes, and they can see their project in map view, satellite view, hybrid view, and night sky. They can zoom in and out and find a particular area using the search box.

Another free tool.

Cool site! a free collection of educational videos for students ages 3-18. There are more then 11,000 videos on such subjects as math, science, and history. Students, parents and teachers have designated pages and the site offers a guide for contributors. Featured videos originate from national Geographic, YouTube, and google Videos, among others, and have been endorsed by educators from universities such as Harsvard, Standford, and Brigham Young University.

Looks like a cool site with over 11,000 videos. Free

Powerpoint with 45 ways to support writing in the Classroom. This provides lots of ideas that teacher can use to have students write.

The World's largest collection of Holocaust documents is going digital: Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the internet. This collection will include 130,000 photos that now can be searched directly from goodle. In the future the collection will expand to other parts of the memorial's vast archives and will include survivor testimonies.

Can be used by students who are visually impaired so they can send speech to text emails, blog posts, tweets, reminders, posts on google calendar, etc.