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Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers Workshop

The surface of Mars as a Google map

Get transported to a random place on Earth via Google Street Maps, try to find out where you are by exploring.

ver wondered where all your Twitter friends are? This one-click service shows you exactly where each of your Twitter friends are located. Here's how it works. You go to the Twitter Friends Map tool on Visual.ly (a great repository of interesting infographics and other multimedia) and then click the 'connect' button on the bottom right of your screen. Wait about 20 seconds and then start watching the people you follow magically appear on the Google map.

Driven by passionate innovators engaged in the proverbial "thinking outside the box," disruptive innovation creates new values and new networks...something institutions find, at best, difficult to accommodate, at worst something to fear and repress. What, then, does disruptive innovation look like inside the educational institution? What do innovative educators do with--and demand from--their students? From flipping the classroom and mobile learning to social media and students as creators, let's examine some real-life educational innovations, try out some interesting technologies, share from our own experiences, and brainstorm ways to move forward despite institutional lethargy and the chorus of nay-sayers who claim innovation is impossible.