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"Google Drive has become an indispensable tool in my digital toolbox. There are so many great Google Drive tips and tricks to share; it's difficult keep this list of tips at just five! I use Google Drive for just about everything, including my presentations, my notes, my collaboration with other educators and colleagues, and I use it to store and back-up all of my files. I frequently share my favorite Google tricks and tips, so I have combined some of my favorites into this post. Today I have put together a list of five Google Drive tips to help teachers, students, or ANYONE make the most of Google Drive."

"In this episode, Matt and I interview Carrie Baughcum, a special education teacher from Illinois, who share her favorite Google tips, how she gamifies her class-Star Wars style, and a fabulous lesson plan! We also have some Google news and updates to share, and some great resources from our blogs. "

Edutopia.org blogger, Suzie Boss reveals a step-by-step approach on how to easily create a Google Lit Trip for your favorite piece of classroom literature.

I have another new favorite Firefox extension... among other things, Fire Uploader can mass upload documents to Google Docs - just like an old school FTP program. Now you can "move into" the cloud by dragging and dropping.

With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

Did you know that you can publish a spreadsheet and embed it in your website or blog? An embedded spreadsheet is a perfect way to display an event calendar, team checklist, or your favorite list of things.

I'm always amazed that more people don't know the little tricks you can use to get more out of a simple Google search. Here are 10 of my favorites.

"Little tricks you can use to get more out of a simple Google search. Here are 10 favorites."

"LabPixies is a leading publisher of web and mobile applications. Add cool and useful gadget applications to your home page, mobile phone or public profile. Simply click the 'add to' button of your favorite application for a whole new online experience!"

Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite links.

Google Docs is a user friendly suite of online collaborative tools that come with tremendous potential for use in the classroom. Last year all of the students in our school  received Google Docs accounts and I was kept quite busy getting students and teachers up and running with the new tools, then discovering innovative ways to use them as effective tools for learning. Here are some of the favorites.

Google Teacher Tribe Podcast | Episode 2 with Karly Moura http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/google-teacher-tribe-podcast-episode-2-karly-moura/ In this episode, you will hear from an inspiring teacher, Karly Moura. Karly shares her Google "spark," her favorite tricks, and not one but TWO LESSON PLANS!!! We also have some Google news and updates to share, and some great resources from our blogs.

"the sky's the limit when you are using the right add-ons. This list of 12 of our favorite add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets will leave you wondering how you ever got your work done without them."

One of my favorite tools to share with students and teachers is Readability . This handy bookmarklet tool scrubs webpages clean of distractions by eliminating the ads and creating a more readable version of digital text. By itself, it's a really useful tool for students, but when combined with Google Docs, it can be an effective and efficient method of taking digital notes.