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A number of tips and tricks that you can use for four of Google's more popular features: Gmail, Maps, Google Drive and Google News.

20 great tips every teacher and student should be using to get the most of the collaborative learning opportunities Google Doc's offers

Examples of purposeful thinking about iPad usage in schools.

As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans. If you don't know what 'boolean' means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff. The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google. Check out the site for more info!

Dropbox is a very useful tool to store online files, sync your computers and mobile devices and share files.  With all those capabilities it makes it a natural tool for educators!

A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet

Looks like a good way to create digital portfolios.

We all know Google Presentations is a great tool for making multimedia slideshows. But did you know it can also be used to make interactive quizzes and "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories? With Google Presentations ability to link to specific slides you can build a non-linear slideshow that allows the user to make choices and go to different slides depending on their choice. Learn tips and tricks to make this work best, and see how this can be used for you or your students to make interactive quizzes and stories.

"Google Drive is one of the fundamental tools in our digital toolkits as teachers and educators. Whether you want to compose a document, create a presentation,  design a sheet, or share a beautiful drawing you made, Google Drive provides you with the tools to do that on any device and anywhere you are with an internet connection . Given this huge importance of Google Drive for teachers, I have created an entire section here packed full of tips, tricks, ideas, and third party tools to enable you to better tap into the full educational potential of this platform."

Create a mini video as if you were recording a collaborative Google Document during a shared typing session

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Ideas and news on the use of iPads for learning.