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Google adds remote desktop to Hangouts, lets users simultaneously video chat and troubl... - 0 views

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    Google+ Hangouts now allow you to screenshare/share desktop with those in your hangout. Great new feature to provide troubleshooting/support amongst other things. Google+ Hangounts allow you and 8 others to have a video meeting and access/share your Google Docs with those in the meeting. Great tool.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents - 0 views

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    Great new feature that works with Google Documents. Leave voice comments synced with highlights in any Google word processing doc.
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Good to Know - Google - 0 views

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    A nice compilation of tips and resources by Google.
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Google Forms - BrentColey.com - 0 views

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    3 nice video screencasts for anyone who needs a little help/support in using Google Forms.
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Doctopus Demonstration - YouTube - 0 views

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    We tried out the Flubaroo script in class for automatically grading assignments with Google Docs. This script, Doctopus, is more about managing assignments and can really save a great deal of time once you have it all set up with a class using Google Apps.
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Links to Teacher-Created Groups - Google Drive - 0 views

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    Google spreadsheet that lists and links to teacher-created professional development groups in Edmodo. Find one to join!
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Power Searching with Google - 0 views

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    A nice self-directed course to become more proficient at Google searching and understanding related concepts.
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Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine - 0 views

  • Who’s to blame? Not the students. If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school.
  • And by the time kids get to college, professors assume they already have this skill.
  • Students quickly gain the ability to detect if a top-ranked page about Martin Luther King Jr. was actually posted by white supremacists.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • “crap detection 101,” as digital guru Howard Rheingold dubs it, isn’t easy. One prerequisite is that you already know a lot about the world.
  • group of college students
  • Pan grimly concluded that students aren’t assessing information sources on their own merit—they’re putting too much trust in the machine.
  • High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching.
  • In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?
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    "Google makes broad-based knowledge more important, not less. A good education is the true key to effective search. But until our kids have that, let's make sure they don't always take PageRank at its word."
Steve Ransom

GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! - 0 views

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    A very cool geography game that uses Google Maps Street view. Turns players into sleuths who have to use all of their knowledge and skills to figure out where they are.
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SearchReSearch: Be prepared: What will happen to your content when you die? - 0 views

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    Google takes you through its Inactive Account Manager so that you can tell it what to do when you are no longer responsive. You'll have to appoint at least one trustee.
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Google Forms a teacher/student connection - YouTube - 0 views

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    Such an authentic and inspirational use of Google Forms. A perfect example of how what matters most is what we DO with our tools, not the tools themselves
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Online courses - Course - 0 views

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    Nice new selection of new self-paced courses for education by Google
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Introducing Flubaroo 3.0! - Welcome to Flubaroo - 0 views

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    Nice updates to the Flubaroo google docs script!
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VideoNot.es - 0 views

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    A great tool to take notes on video content from popular video hosting sites and sync notes with the video itself as well as in Google Drive.
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Kaizena: improving voice feedback for student writing - @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch - 0 views

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    Free Chrome extension for adding voice comments to a Google Doc Great way to leave audio-based comments/feedback
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Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! | ... - 0 views

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    A handy little matrix to help you make decisions regarding creating an online component to your classroom.
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