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"Google Docs supports effective writing with free online tools for creating, collaborating, revising and publishing - tools that can improve the writing process for students and teachers alike."

Tips for refining your Google searches

Google is continuously innovating to improve its Search Engine.The recent announcement is Google Instant.Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type (In fact it predicts the results even before you type).

"New and improved chart types We've added annotated time-lines, organizational charts, gauges, our popular motion chart (which makes it easy to visualize data changing over time) and more to our chart types."

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.

The Ultimate Google Guide can help you to improve your search results and SERP analysis with less-known search Tips First Things First In there are some less-known google operators and search tips

Here's a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search.

Looking for Learning in 21st Century Classrooms A leadership guide to supporting and coaching best practice technology use across the curriculum. Administrators are given the charge to foster professional development of teachers through classroom observation, walk-throughs and overall supervision. In recent years, technology has changed significantly and the world has altered alongside that change. Education has begun the process of including technology, but finds variety in teacher expertise and practice. What questions can supervisors ask of their teachers to best promote technology-use to improve learning? Here are some helpful guiding questions.

A weekend spent learning is always a weekend well spent. Our next Analytics Academy course (the third so far) is fast-approaching. If you're interested in getting better with Analytics, we recommend getting caught up on the first two courses if you haven't taken them yet so you're ready for what's next. You can take the first two courses on-demand, at your own pace on the Academy site here: http://goo.gl/HRUsSH ....and if you're someone who has taken the first two courses, registration is now open for the next (titled: Ecommerce Analytics: From Data to Decisions). We continue to listen to your feedback to improve the content, topics and format so always let us know what we can do to make the Academy better.

"Along my Chromebook journey, I have found a number of little tips, tricks and tweaks that both improve and personalize the experience."

There is a wealth of research to suggest that vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of student academic achievement across all curriculum areas. Experts agree that vocabulary development is an attainable goal. If given the opportunity to receive effective vocabulary instruction, most students can acquire vocabulary at rates that will improve their comprehension and also their chances for success in school. Technology is an effective and engaging tool that can be used to improe vocabulary acquisition for all learners and engage them in the learning process. Google Presentation offers some features that make it an attractive tool for a lesson in which students work collaboratively to construct knowledge about vocabulary by creating vocabulary cards.

Google Docs is making the transition to Google Drive and with that they have recently announce some improved features for Docs users. Most notably is the addition of 60 new templates and 450 new fonts.