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"1. Encourage Teachers to Create an In Box with a Google Form One of the challenges of using Google Docs with a class full of students is in managing all those Google Docs. While it's fairly easy for students to learn to share their work with you, the clutter that ends up in your email box can be overwhelming. Last year I was thrilled to discover an awesome idea from John Miller that utilizes a Google Form as an Assignment Tracker. "

excellent software for Macs to sync iCal with Google Calendar. Free 30-day trial, $25 to licencse it. Winner of Macworld Eddys 2008. Can also sync to iPhone as read-write. Great blog with other useful Mac tips and very clear visual tutorials on using the tool.

Software for Mac OS 10.4 and Leopard 10.5. In addition to syncing calendars on your LAN, BusySync syncs with Google Calendar, allowing you to: * View and edit calendars online - Calendar events can be viewed/edited in both iCal and Google Calendar and automatically synchronized between the two. * Sync calendars between home and work - Users can sync their home and office computers with Google Calendar (as an alternative to syncing calendars with MobileMe). * Share calendars remotely - Users in remote locations can share calendars with each other by syncing with Google Calendar, even while traveling.

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.

How to embed a Google Group into a Google Site

How to embed a Google Group into a Google Site

The Google Educast, hosted by the Google Certified Teachers, features a weekly roundup of the newest Ed tools from Google, highlighting best practices using Google tools, and further highlighting the impact that these tools have on the classroom, schools, and school districts.

The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, and representatives from the Google Apps for Education team. 

Those who depend on Google Docs know how frustrating it is when you want to make a simple change from an iPhone, but can't because Google Docs is read-only on mobile devices. Until now, that is. Google has just introduced a new mobile editor that makes it possible to make changes to your Google Docs from any iOS 3.x or later device, as well as from Android devices running Froyo (2.2).

At Google, we're constantly working to innovate and improve our products so people can easily find and manage information. At times though, we have to decide where to focus our efforts and which technologies we expect will yield the most benefit to users in the long run. Starting next week, we plan to stop active development on Google Notebook. This means we'll no longer be adding features or offer Notebook for new users. But don't fret, we'll continue to maintain service for those of you who've already signed up. As part of this plan, however, we will no longer support the Notebook Extension, but as always users who have already signed up will continue to have access to their data via the web interface at http://www.google.com/notebook.

An interesting perspective on using Google Apps in a school setting. Makes you think, and perhaps should make Google add some apps to the suite...

If downloading and keeping student work is an issue then let's connect Mahara so that our students have an electronic portfolio of all their work. Google Apps for Education is fairly new and has recently added Google Groups to the mix. Maybe with a little push Google would add even more to the list. To say that its disadvantages outweigh its advantages is simply overstated.

"This Google Site is a companion to the Google Tools for School Boot Camp workshop. This hands-on workshop will focus on all the free applications from Google that support teaching and learning. Click on the links below to explore the applications we will learn in this workshop."

As more Oregon schools roll out Google's free suite of productivity software this fall, they're also trying to educate parents and ease concerns about privacy. Oregon was the first state to sign up for Google Apps for Education in 2010 and make it available to K-12 school districts. The free software allows students to access their class work from home, the library, or anywhere they have internet access. But the very thing that makes Google Apps so accessible and appealing worries some parents: They don't want Google or anyone outside the district to have access to their children's private information.

"More than 12 million students & teachers at thousands of schools worldwide have already gone Google. Join the movement with Google Apps for Education. Interesting in learning how to go Google? Check out our new Guide to going Google. Thanks to all who stopped by our booth #2617 and listened to one of the presentations in our teaching theater or saw a demo of Google Apps, Google Search, Google Earth, Chrome OS, or App Inventor."

All the sessions provided at the Google Booth from ISTE 2011.  

"Here is another wonderful resource on Google+ for schools which I am adding to the Google Plus section here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. The present guide is created by Eric Curts who is both a Google Apps certified trainer and Google certified teacher."

"Google Docs provides many ways to go paperless through sharing and collaboration options. There is not just one single right way to use Google Docs for a paperless classroom. Rather there are many tools and features that can be used on their own or in combination to meet your varying needs. This guide will cover many of the most common ways that Google Docs can help teachers and students move away from paper and into a digital-only environment."

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.

Good news for Google Docs users! The powerful integrated research tool made available in the Google Document last spring has made it's way to the Google Presentation at last.