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An inquiry-based workshop on Google Docs

"the easiest way to work with your google apps"

"Backupify is an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and more. "

"Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free! * Flubaroo works with Google docs"

All kinds of templates for your Google Docs - docs, spreadsheets, presentations and forms.

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored safely online and can be accessed from any computer.

Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports the following services: * Google Docs * Google Bookmarks * Picasa Web Albums

A great training/demo on Google Apps.. goes through each element and how they work.

"The problem is that to have a Google Docs account, you need an email address. You need it to verify your Google Docs account. Most elementary and some middle school students don't have email addresses and their parents may not want them to have one. If a teacher helps a student create an email account and the student uses that account for troublemaking or connects to the wrong people, there could be some liability issues. At least that's what scares teachers."

Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - Nice chart that breaks down the differet Google Tools into the different levels of Bloom's. Very cool!