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This is a really informative resource page with numerous video testimonials and webinars from administrators and schools that have incorporated Google Apps. There are also videos discussing how Google Apps work.

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!

This teacher shares her experience with using Google Apps to work on a collaborative writing project in schools that were two hours apart. She lists some of the benefits of using Google Apps, as well as a few downsides. This is a great site to look at if you are considering introducing Google Apps in your school.

This is a wonderful resource for sharing Google Apps lesson plans. All you have to do is type your subject and grade level interest in the search box and you have many lessons at your fingertips. You can easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans. It also provides a link to the Google Apps Education Community site where you can find more Google Apps educational resources, including video tutorials, discussion forum, community map, and news.

This site shows how the use of google apps + higher-level thinking skills in Bloom's Taxonomy = differentiation. It gives a long list of ways you can use G A in areas such as math.

Education blogger Tom Barrett has compiled some great ideas for using Google Maps in the math classroom. Based on the crowd-sourced map, teachers can view activities for students between grades one and 5 (elementary). While this is an elementary map of math activities, the idea could easily be scaled to higher level math classes. 

This is a blog dedicated to the use of Google Apps. The group is comprised of people who want to share their experiences with Google Apps in education.

This is a great resource concerning cloud computing in education. It is a 5 part series that addresses the benefits, risks, and costs of cloud computing in K-12 schools

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.

More than just a resource. It has real life testimonials, as well as research done with Google Apps. There are tons of studies by major universities that using Google Apps aids in teaching in any classroom. Another great source for us!