"Course Details - Power Searching with Google is a free online, community-based course showcasing search techniques and how to use them to solve real, everyday problems. It features:
Six 50-minute classes.
Interactive activities to practice new skills.
Opportunities to connect with others using Google Groups, Google+, and Hangouts on Air.
Upon passing the post-course assessment, a printable Certificate of Completion will be emailed to you.
Ready to get started?
Registration is open from June 26, 2012 to July 16, 2012. We recommend that you register before the first class is released on July 10, 2012!
New classes will become available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday starting on July 10, 2012 and ending on July 19, 2012.
Course-related activities will end on July 23, 2012. "
"Read & Write is a free Google Chrome Web App that increases the accessibility of the text of documents in your Google Drive account. After installing the app you will see a Read & Write tab appear at the top of your browser window whenever you have a document open in Google Drive. Clicking that Read & Write tab will open a menu of accessibility options"
"Get the colored pencils and construction paper ready. Kids in the U.S. now have a chance to design Google's famous homepage logo and win a scholarship, as well as a technology grant for their school.
Google (Google) announced today that it's launching the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest with the theme "What I'd like to do someday…" The contest is open to K-12 students in the U.S."
"Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies.
The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise - beginner, intermediate and advanced- as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps."
"Create presentations together. Google Docs lets you create, share and collaborate on presentations with others. Go to http://docs.Google.com to give it a try."
Demo video
"Using Google products: How to use accessibility features
In this section, we go over the accessibility features of our products for 2 groups of people:
Blind & low-vision users
Deaf & hard of hearing users"
From Free Tech 4 Teachers: "The Nagasaki Archive places the images of survivors and their stories on a Google Earth map. Some of the stories are only available in Japanese while others are available in English. The map also contains images of the destruction caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The Nagasaki Archive uses the Google Earth plug-in."