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Occasionally there is a piece software that comes along which astonishes me that I can download it for free. We have been recently investigating the ability for our users to sync their docs with a cloud service, primarily for backup. We have looked at Google Drive, DropBox and SkyDrive and there are many others. All have advantages / disadvantages however there is one thing that none of them seem to do - local storage. We simply can't have 1,500 users all trying to sync to the Internet and expect it to work across our 50 meg pipe.  We need it to be stored locally, on one of our servers. Sure we'll need tons of storage and won't have intercontinental redundancy and failover, but let's be honest we are not backing up nuclear launch codes here. One large RAID 5 storage should do the trick.

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A glogster presentation containing 12 different ways to utilise Google Docs for learning. There are also links to more information for each example.

# Grade online assignments in a single step! # Get reporting and analysis on student performance! # Works with Google docs # Email students their scores. # Designed by a teacher, for other teachers!

The title says it all: The Docs/PDF/ powerpoint view look interesting so does Tabcloud (often chrome doesn't save my tabs) 

12 Steps to creating and delivering an on-line course using free Google Apps technologies are written out here 

A document for teachers with how to teach digital searches beyond simply googling it by Richie Lambert.

"You can now give students voice feedback about their writing in Google Docs. This short video will show you how. You will need to teach students how to hit the comments button to access the link to your feedback."

peer evaluation editing google doc

This document is a resource for assessing the accuracy or veracity of online information, organized under a number of headings.

"Two features distinguish OneNote from other note-taking apps like Evernote. First, notes can be shared and collaboratively edited in real time - much like Google Docs. This includes collaborative handwriting when on tablets. Next, OneNote notes can be opened and edited in multiple locations at the same time. Consider a student taking notes in OneNote on a laptop or Chromebook while inserting photos from their phone"

Below you will find a collaboratively written document produced in Bangkok, Thailand, at the March 28-31 teacher's meeting of EARCOS, the East Asia Regional Council of Schools.  EARCOS is an organization of 130 primary and secondary schools that primarily use English as the language of instruction.  These include AP and IB schools and a number of other private schools.  We produced the document below on a public Google doc at a workshop, which I structured on the model of an "innovation challenge" of the kind that web developers use to bring together communities to complete a project.  We hope this guide will be useful to any teacher confronting the challenges of introducing new technologies into the K-12 classroom in meaningful, inventive, productive, creative, and connected ways.

Fifty Two Secrets Students Should Know about Google Docs