Google in the Classroom - From Docs to Sites

Google Apps brings together essential services to help your students, school, group or family communicate and collaborate more effectively.  These services are powerful, easy to set up, require little-to-no maintenance, and are available for free - yes free.  The beauty of using Google Apps is that you and your students can access work from any computer at any time.  No need for access to a hard drive or server..... welcome to the "cloud".

Everything is unified by the Start Page, a central place for you and other users to access essential content, documents, presentations, gmail, sites, and search the web.

Below are great tutorials about Google apps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hJ3R8jEZM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzgaUOW6GIs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD-4FRTzxkI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_fvGvLS6Sw

Introducing a new Google Docs

Google in the Classroom - Google Images

Getting Started with Google Image Sorts:
Visit images.google.com, type what you want to see in the search box, and click Search Images.

You may also see Google Images results in the following ways:

• If you do a search on Google.com, you can click to see Google Images results for the same search by clicking Images at the top of the results page.
• When you search on Google Web Search, our algorithms add images to the results if they might be useful and informative additions.

Try it with a search like [ sunset ].

To narrow down your search for images that you or your students can use in projects or reports, click on the link below:

http://screenjel.ly/Dtj-h2M3m90

A Good Read

 Do you believe that an essential role of schooling is to prepare students to be successful in today's world?  Then Heidi Hayes Jacobs has written a must-read book that makes a powerful case for why and how schools must overhaul, update, and breathe new life into the K–12 curriculum. This world-renowned curriculum designer explains:

• Why K–12 curriculum has to change to reflect new technologies and a globalized world.
• What to keep, what to cut, and what to create to reflect 21st century learning skills.
• Where portfolios and new kinds of assessments fit into accountability mandates.
• How to improve your use of time and space and groupings of students and staff.
• What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective and develop the habits of mind they need to succeed in school, work, and life.
• How to re-engineer schools and teaching to engage and improve students' media literacy.

Take the opportunity to pick up a book that will provide breakthrough ideas for educating a generation that you've been charged to nurture.

http://video.ascd.org/services/player/bcpid55275595001?bctid=61455698001