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In the course of projects and project-based learning units, reflection should be an important part. Students can reflect in any number of ways, but this post from MSU's own Leigh Graves Wolf offers a way to use Google Docs as a powerful reflection tool. The "developer's notebook," as she calls it, offers a doorway for the instructor to the thought processes and ideas of the student during the course of the project. In this case it was an instructional model being developed in a graduate level course, but the principles of this notebook can be easily scaled back to a secondary level course. This post even offers a tutorial of how to implement such a feature in your course. 

A Boise State student has prepared a great overview of using Google Apps in education. He breaks down the various Apps, how they can be used for administrators and teachers vs. students, and provides links to many helpful tutorials that cover each app. It's full of helpful information for the Google Apps beginner!

There are a variety of reasons why K-12 schools, colleges & universities, and businesses are switching to Google Apps. This website will be an extremely helpful resource for us to explore and research why Google Apps will be great for teaching. The site actually breaks it down into categories based on the App, so each of us will find this very useful since many of our "guided questions" can be answered using this.

Most of my links are ways that teachers can use Google Apps in the classroom, but the students are the ones actually using the Apps. This website provides a slideshow showing ways that students AND teachers can use Google Apps. There are many things students can build, create and present, but there are just as many ways that teachers and school personnel can use Google Apps, too. There are ways teachers could use Apps for Meetings, Communication with Parents, and even Grades!