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This is Jason Ranieri's support site for his great Google Presentation on 20 ways to Use Cloudshare in the Classroom http://goo.gl/qRr0P (Note not all of the links are active at the time of adding this link).

Dan Leighton originally shared to Google Classroom (Discussion): Some comments on #GoogleClassroom with a full review of what's great, and what may not work so well... It's going to be fantastic...hopefully by September when we start next term! Dan Leighton 13 June 2014

Useful tips from a classroom teacher. "Using forms in Google docs lets anyone create forms quickly and share those forms via email, embed them into a webpage or blog. If you are a teacher, you can create formulas that allow you to have these forms graded in minutes. The formula part is a bit challenging, so I wrote this article to talk about how I recently created a final for one of my classes."

It's been a week since I snagged a Google+ invite, and while it's fun to hit the reset button on my personal social media life, what I'm really interested in is how the service is going to impact teaching and learning. There's a good chance that Google+ is going to become a powerful communication and collaboration tool in the classroom. In fact, it could end up being a serious education game changer.

Looking back through the new 2015capabilities in Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Gmail, and Google Apps for Education, it is amazing to see how innovation has happened over the last 11 months. From automated chart creation to cross-domain collaboration in Google Classroom, it was easy to miss one of the additions if you so much as blinked. List here are many of these updates.

This is a very comprehensive post from Vicky Davis. It is a consolidation of the many things that Google can offer teachers and students. They are categorized under useful headings, many links to follow up and some useful videos are also embedded.

A Google Spreadsheet of some classrooms that tweet

A list of reasons why students should be taught coding plus links to 4 tools from Google for Education that will assist classroom teachers.

"Two year 4 students from Winters Flat Primary School explain how they write, collaborate, receive feedback and share using Google Docs, one of the key communication tools of Google Apps for Education."

"How to use Google Documents for group reading in the classroom." by Richard Byrne. Useful video on how to go about task.

"Last month, 16 teachers from across the country got together at Google's Seattle office for the YouTube Teachers Studio - a sort of bootcamp to learn how to best use YouTube in the classroom. Jon Corippo, a Google Certified Teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, was among the group, and came back with ideas about what YouTube was great for."

Understanding and using Google+ in the classroom.

"In this Podcast, Mike catches up with Lee Webster to discuss how you can use Google plus with your students"

Twenty-Five Interesting Ways* to Use Audio in your Classroom

"Use this guide to learn about ideas for classroom resources and lesson plans, to chat with other teachers, and to see external resources related to using Picnik in the classroom. Navigate through the information using the tabs below. Be sure to click the images in the tabs to see the full content."

Unhangout is an open source platform for running large scale online un-conferences. We use Google Hangouts to create as many small sessions as needed, and help users find others with shared interests. Think of it as a classroom with an infinite number of breakout sessions. Each event has a landing page, which we call the lobby. When participants arrive, they can see who else is there and chat with each other. The hosts can do a video welcome and introduction that gets streamed into the lobby. Participants then break out into smaller sessions (up to 10 people per session) for in-depth conversations, peer-to-peer learning, and collaboration on projects. UnHangouts are community-based learning instead of top-down information transfer.