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We invite you to join us for the first annual Google Apps for Education Singapore Summit to be held at the Singapore American School on September 8 and 9. This high intensity two day event focuses on deploying, integrating and using Google Apps for Education to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education. The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, and representatives from the Google Apps for Education team. 

"Below are some of the top web apps for students looking for helpful tools to focus while online, as selected by Google's Chrome Web Apps Guru, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury. StayFocusd - StayFocusd is a productivity extension that helps you focus on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites.  You can restrict entire sites or just parts of them for as long or short of a time as necessary. Todo.ly- Todo.ly is an intuitive and easy to use online to-do list and task manager. It helps you get organized and get things done by organizing your tasks into projects and subprojects, adding customized icons and labels, and assigning due dates to your tasks. Read Later Fast - This app lets you save pages to read later - online or offline, and fast. All you have to do is right click and save the page for later to avoid having too many open tabs on your browser. Write Space - Write Space is a customizable, full-screen text editor that lives in your browser. It is designed to minimize the distractions that come between you and your writing.  This app also auto saves your work and works offline. StudyStack - StudyStack helps students memorize anything with millions of flashcards that have already been added to the site or the ability to create your own.  There are dozens of flashcard categories including foreign languages, math, LSAT and GRE. Graph.tk - An app for math majors, Graph.tk is an app that brings the graphing capabilities of your calculator to the browser. It's easy to use and good for plotting graphs based on equations. WordReference - For anyone taking a foreign language course or studying abroad, this extension gets you the translations you need in a fast and easy way.  Since it's an extension and placed right next to the address bar, you don't even have to leave the site you're on for a quick translation. BONUS APP: Panic Button - Ok, this app won't help you pass your class, but it might just come in handy during

Many of the schools that have introduced iPads in the classroom also use the Google Apps for Education suite. Unfortunately these two do not always mix well together. Using Google Apps on the iPads has always been quite tedious, but today Google updated its Google Drive app that solves many of the problems.

If you ever wished Google Apps could just do "x"... you can write your own apps scripts.

"As expected, Google has flipped the switch on Google Keep, a dead-simple website and Android app for recording notes, checklists, images and audio. Also as expected, there's no shortage of tech pundits - still sore from Google's decision to shut down Google Reader - telling you to stay far, far away. As we witnessed with Reader, you can't trust Google to keep products around anymore, even popular ones, if they don't fit the company's long-term strategies. So maybe Google Keep won't exist in five years - it's still worth trying. "

Great tips for google apps schools including: Create and assignment In Box with Google forms How to use the revision history Create and use templates

A new gaming app is in development that will help scientists to analyse genetic data in the search for cancer cures. Cancer Research UK have teamed up with Google, Facebook and Amazon to develop a game you can play on your mobile that will simultaneously sort through genetic data. "A new gaming app is in development that will help scientists to analyse genetic data in the search for cancer cures. Cancer Research UK have teamed up with Google, Facebook and Amazon to develop a game you can play on your mobile that will simultaneously sort through genetic data.

This is a great way to display images from a Google Presentation on a website, e.g., a Google Site. Go to: library.uwcsea.edu.sg to see how we are using this.

"Powerful and Free Tools for Teachers and Students

Rushton Hurley's resources from the Google Apps for Edu Summit

Great list of various resources from one of the presenters at the Singapore Google Apps Summit Sep 2012

on line course for google apps

John Macgowan's slides on intro to Google Apps scripts

Google is a vast machine with all sorts of apps, programs and tools. A lot of these - like Gmail and Google Docs - are clearly useful and loved by many. But hidden inside Google's network are some awesome, lesser-known gems that can make your life easier.

"Creating Custom Learning Assessment and Student Feedback Applications with Google Apps Script"

Seriously cool site from Jeff Utecht to inspire techie kids to get their various belts in the different Google Apps.  Jeff has kindly offered to make this licensed by Creative Commons so others can modify/adapt/use in their schools. 

Claco, ClassDojo, Diigo, DropBox, Edmondo, Evernote, Glogster, Google Apps, Google Drive, Google Hangout, KidBlog, LiveBinders, Pinterest, Socrative, ThingLink, Storify, Twitter, Wordle

The research pane taps into Google Search directly from Google documents, so whether you want to add a cool destination to your itinerary for an upcoming trip to India or you're looking for the perfect presidential quote for a political science paper, you don't even have to open a new tab.

This was one of the resources Jay Atwood recommended - especially for playing with scripts

This site is the shazam for Google Sites!

from Jay Atwood

something to help teachers monitor what kids in their classroom are doing on Google Apps

What will they come up with next?  I've tried it and it's amazing.  (Though no Khmer available yet, so not much help in Cambodia...)