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Quick of overview of Google Apps for Educators. Good beginning article with links.

According to Google, this resource is so easy to use that kids can create their own Apps, though limited to Google's Android OS. Google borrowed some code from a teacher education program at MIT as their building blocks. They hope young people (and teachers) will be inspired to become serious App creators. Critics say it will only add to the hundreds of low-quality, useless Apps that are already out there. What do you think?

Learn how to use Google Earth to view images of what locations looked like in the past.

I came across this tip for making form data in Google spreadsheets more organized - very helpful!

Great tip! I often create surveys with Google docs, but dislike how lengthy responses in the formula cells take up too much space. This would be a great way to clean up the data for easier analysis. Thanks!

PDF of presentation on Using Facebook for teaching and learning

I found this useful in that I could see building on it as I presented how WE would use social media in OUR classroom when presenting to my students. It also made me hungry for different sources on the subject such as guidelines and theory. Off to search ...

If It Was My Home is a simple site that allows you to quickly compare the current size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to your city, county, state, or country. Uses standard Google Maps interface.

Fascinating article/Blog post from NPR about Verizon and Google and their proposal to "regulate" then internet. It opens the debate about Google's "Do no evil" motto.

#edtec572 This screencast movie shows how to access the free materials archived by Google. This can be useful for research.

This widget allows you to create a quiz in Captivate and then track it using a GoogleDoc. 

Wow, this is great! I'm going to try this out. Thanks for sharing. It's an easier alternative to linking up the presentation with an LMS system.

Sue Waters of Edublogs blogpost Twitter How-To for educators. Clear tips to get up and running using Twitter.

Augmented Reality examples - both books and discussion of mobile device-based AR. RWW.

Used this in EDTEC 700. I liked it better than google docs.