Google Apps for Education Training Center
Welcome to the Google Apps for Education Training Center. This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.
None yet. We are in the process of planning the spending of a large IT loan we are taking out at the moment. The ipods will be part of the mix which will include laptops, ipods and perhaps ipads as well.
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When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and mor"
Mark,
Even the interface is very similar. PiratePad (http://piratepad.net/) is another alternative
Google have now included the EtherPad feature in its new version of google docs (It' still in preview and you need to tick a box in the document editing settngs). I'm yet to try it out with a class.
Found that EtherPad also had issues with the 15 users. In a class I would often make more than one pad.
Thanks Mark - just sent it in then. I am liking diigo also. Looks like a handy little tool and have set it up to send through to delicious also. May become my social bookmarking tool of choice!!
Wallwisher is a simple "sticky note" environment that anyone can post a note to (text, images, movies etc). This wallwisher was created for the participants of the Lighthouse Learning Technologies Course 2009
This is a FREE conference open to ANYONE by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.
If you want to take part in a google wave about the K-12 Conference email me or Mark Woolley and we will setup an invite for you. You could also visit http://thebigquestion.edublogs.org/ for more info.