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Create little movies of your google docs stories. Could be fun for Literacy & writing workshop

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.

9 tips every teacher should know about google scholar http://t.co/dZKeLr2aXE #tlchat #edchat #mu5541

a platform which brings world heritage sites of the modern and ancient world online. Using Street View, 3D modeling and other Google technologies, we have made these amazing sites accessible to everyone across the globe. With videos, photos and in-depth information, you can now explore the world wonders from your armchair just as if you were there.

from Jay Atwood

Clint's flickr set of the google search infographic broken up into A4 chunks for easier printing

The features in Google Docs can be used to facilitate a digital writer's workshop based on peer editing, and they are particularly useful when combined with cooperative grouping strategies to fine-tune students' editing skills. While students are writing their drafts, teachers can take advantage of opportunities to lead small instructional groups to help them focus on specific cooperative grouping job-related skills, then students can share their drafts with other group members who use comments to suggest revisions based on their job. The immediate feedback provided by peers will likely encourage writers to check comments and revise at home and stay on task during classroom work time. The revision history will keep student comments and revisions honest and focused on the task.

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

New "Tool" option when in a Google doc -- a sidebar for searching pops up (also can highlight a word/phrase and right-click to search).

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

How to use Google Reader - for educators

Resources used in the Google Apps For Education Summit at SAS.

Wow! Movenote lets you add video comments to anything in Google Drive. You can then embed the video together with the item in a Google site (or elsewhere) Great for making thinking visible.

Wendy Gorton's session on Reading & Writing workshop from the Google Apps Summit in Singapore

Incredible poster/graphic of how Google works.... from when you post something on the internet to when/how/why it will appear in a search result