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This page includes links to Live Webinars, On-Demand Webinars, and Archived Webinars. There is a mix of Google Apps for Education and Google Apps for Business presentations.

This program is designed for organizations and individuals who provide professional training and support to schools using Google Apps for Education. The Google Apps for Education Certification is an official "stamp of approval" from Google, and gives you access to additional marketing support, training opportunities, and business visibility in the Google Apps marketplace. Meanwhile, your customers can be assured that your expertise and learning materials meet high quality standards set by the Google Apps team.

Part of the Google Apps for Education Professional Development webinar series. This is a lengthy tutorial - about one hour Skill level: Beginner Lead by Julia Stilitz, Google Apps for Education This session will demonstrate some of the most powerful ways that teachers can leverage Google Apps tools in their classrooms. From using Google Docs for collaborative lesson planning with grade level colleagues, to using Google Chat to have a virtual guest lecturer in your classroom, to giving your students a formative assessment through Google forms, this session will show you had to get the most out of Google Apps.

This post provides a brief overview of the process of becoming a trainer. It also contains some useful links.

Zoe Ross recently became the first, and until a short time ago the only, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer in the UK. In this post she explains why, and what that means to her. My enthusiasm for Google Apps, Google's online suite of collaborative tools, began last January when I began using Google Docs with my GCSE class, simply my own gmail account.

Add reasons why Google Apps will be better that Enterprise 365. This is a blog site listing 365 reasons why Google Apps is better.

A Moderator series for brainstorming ways to use Google Apps in the Classroom.

Computer Science Teachers Association Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium 2010 July 13, 2010 Building a 21st Century School with Google Apps Presented by Dana Nguyen The next generation of students brings a different set of expectations and technical experiences to school. Meeting the changing learning habits of these students and providing the tools necessary to enable 21st century teaching and learning are difficult challenges many schools and districts face today. Learn how Google Apps Education Edition can provide advanced communication and collaboration tools for schools-at zero cost

This site has a lot of Related Articles & Videos that could be helpful to new users. Also, I like the range of "how to" topics on this web site (totally unrelated to Google Apps or anything with this course).

Although this page is part of a commercial site, this is a helpful list of FAQs.

This is the main page for Google Apps Administrator Help. Lots of good stuff here on setting up and configuring domains.

Quick tutorials on using Google Apps. Good training for becoming certified.

This helped me understand more about Postini and how it can help protect students when using their Google Apps accounts.

This is a great overview of the Apps platform with an explanation of how old IT challenges are met with solutions through the Apps platform.

This site provides publications, presentations, podcasts, and blogs about outsourcing email services, including info on Google Apps.

Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans

If you don't have mail turned on for your school Google Apps accounts, you can still save and manage contact information using the 'standalone' Contact Manager. 'Standalone' simply means that you do not need to use Apps mail or any other product to get to your contacts - they can now be accessed directly. This might be a handy way to save old contacts instead of importing all. As the WCSU team transitions form one email address to another....this may be a good solution to keeping old and at the same time starting fresh with new ones to the district. Anyone have experience using this feature?

A brief explanation of the three stages to the process of becoming a trainer: Using the Training Center, becoming a qualified Individual, and becoming a Certified Trainer.

This also explains how to move existing blogs into a new Google blog.

This video shows how to transfer Google Docs from one Google Account (i.e. a personal account) to another (school/work account),