Google Apps for Teachers

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Conceptual overview with hands-on tutorials for harnessing the educational potential of Google Apps. Explores the widespread adoption of Google Apps in schools and explains the business strategy behind Google's decision to make it freely available to schools and the general public.

If you'd like to receive our Google Apps for Education newsletter, or be notified about local events, let us know. In the course of less than 6 months Google Apps for Education has become the technological center of nearly all operations at The Watershed School.

Students need opportunities to write for real-world contexts, audiences, and purposes. In this lesson, students will write a newsletter about their classroom for the purpose of sharing the knowledge they have gleaned from their studies. Their audience will be their classmates, their school community, and their local community.

Dr. Becky Sue Parton & Dr. John Dawson Texas Woman’s University Geotagging: creating geographical tags on images Creating digital photo maps Flickr Triggermap.com http://www.communitywalk.com/ 25 integration ideas Handouts: http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/uploads/NECC2007/KEY_40263347/Parton_NECC2007.pdf Students bring baby photos tagged with the place of their birth. Create a class map as a group. Plan a trip in groups.

The word "Geocaching" represents geo for geography, and caching for the process of hiding a cache Geocaching is a new activity - partly treasure hunt and partly outdoor exploration based on principles of orienteering. It was started about 10 years ago and owes its inception to human creativity, the internet, and most importantly, Global Position System (GPS) technology.

During the past few years, numerous new online tools for collaboration and community building have emerged, providing web-users with a tremendous capability to connect with and share a variety of resources. Coupled with this new technology is the ability to 'geo-tag' photos, i.e.

The owner of the above website posted, "I'm not a parent. However, I can imagine if I was, and if my child was sick, I would forget to send a written note into the teacher. Even if the teacher reminded me every morning, I would forget by the time I got home." Check out his absence notes he created using Google Forms

How to Use Google's New License Filter for Images Click more and even more to get to a page of links to all tools.

Started by Roger Grant. Last reply by Marshall Haire Jun 14. 0 Likes There are so many ways we can benefit from using Google Apps for Education, but the system is not perfect. I am sure we all run into some issues along the way and perhaps by sharing Google problems…Continue Started by Dan Sitter.

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