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Create, Innovate & Evaluate in Higher Education
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Google Docs is a powerful word processing tool that many schools have adopted. As it’s similar to Microsoft Word and other word processing tools, most of its features are intuitive to use.
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More Than a Word Processor
Beyond using Google Docs as a word processor, these features allow it to become an editing platform, collaboration tool, research aid, and much more. 
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26 Tips for Teaching with Google Apps This guide will teach you to be as tech-savvy as your students. It is meant to acquaint you with Google Apps’ major features and is loaded with best practices and lots of helpful, actionable tips to optimize your investment in Google Apps and improve your students’ learning experience. It’s appropriate for school IT admins, teachers, principals, and anyone else interested in learning more about Google Apps for education. Start implementing these tips today!
Gary Harwell's curator insight,
November 7, 2013 1:11 AM
Nice ideas if you relegate yourself to Google. 
Maria Zappa Kasapidi's curator insight,
November 7, 2013 1:25 AM
This guide will teach you to be as tech-savvy as your students. It is meant to acquaint you with Google Apps’ major features and is loaded with best practices and lots of helpful, actionable tips to optimize your investment in Google Apps and improve your students’ learning experience. It’s appropriate for school IT admins, teachers, principals, and anyone else interested in learning more about Google Apps for education. 
lorrinda's curator insight,
November 7, 2013 7:13 AM
micropreneurs can teach their expertise using resource and time-saving tools like this
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a good and novel point of view
's comment June 15, 2013 5:57 PM
Thanks a lot for this very information and the information on Facebook page and Twitter.
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25 Ways Google Can Help You Become A Better Teacher
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Very good insight on Google tools
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ScheduleHangout is great for scheduling group hangouts on Google+. Invite your guests, give them a few date options and ScheduleHangout does the rest. We'll help you organize the Hangout session around your friends/colleagues optimized availability.
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Great Ideas! Love the idea of uploading newspaper to Youblisher. Turns it into a flippable page newspaper. Via KB...Konnected, R.Conrath, Ed.D., Ann Papi Castro, michel verstrepen, Evdokia Roka, BookChook, Beverly Meyer, RitaZ, Pilar Pamblanco, LaiaJoana, Juergen Wagner
Rachel Marker's curator insight,
September 27, 2013 11:30 PM
Could replace monthly newsletter. Student written! 
Kenevie Bryan-Solis's curator insight,
February 4, 2021 12:16 PM
This is such a fun activity for students in which teachers can embed different subjects in one class project.
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Google Apps are some of the most widely used tools in education today. From Gmail to Calendar to Image Search, they’re a big part of the current education technology model. In my experience, I don’t see enough written about how to use Google Docs / Drive in the classroom. This extremely powerful tool can do so much and it’s all free. Lucky for all of us, Tom Barrett has built a crowdsourced Google Doc (of course) of more than 80 ways to use the forms part of Google Drive in the classroom!
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If you’re a user of Google Drive, then no doubt you have also heard of and likely used Google Presentations (Google’s version of PowerPoint). It’s a great tool to create slick presentations in the cloud, especially after its most recent overhaul. However, Google Presentations is also a handy tool for doing some great projects with …
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Sometimes, the unexpected uses of a given tool are more useful than the expected one. Some ways to use google presentations, other than presentations:
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
August 6, 2014 12:01 PM
The post suggests 5 ways of using Google presentations for other purposes, not just presentations. Great ideas for education!
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Get the most out of Google Drive with these 25 tips, tools and tweaks for power users. Via Rabbi David Etengoff
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Google Drive is a lot of things. It's a cloud-based storage service, it's an online office suite, and it's the connective tissue that ties numerous Google services together.
Steve Vaitl's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 10:48 AM
Great slideshow showing some great features and chrome add-ons for your Google Drive!! 
Jennifer Turner's curator insight,
February 24, 2014 1:42 PM
Yeas! A great tool for Google Drive users! There is so to learn with google drive and this resource helps make the tool even more productive for you to use in your classroom.
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A perfect companion to start and learn about the uses of google+. A must visit, and a nice video
Tony Gough's curator insight,
August 26, 2013 7:24 AM
If you're new to Google+, or want to know more about using Google+, this article will help you get the most from Google+! 
Patricia Daniels's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 3:37 AM
A useful video tutorial here, just over 16 minutes long. It runs through the basics of using Google drive and how you can use it to collaborate with others. It also touches on Google Hangout.
I use Google Drive with my students as a writing space because I teach English via Skype. It suits our needs perfectly. Students create several folders e.g. some are homework spaces; collaborative areas such as wikis; creative writing pages and as a virtual space that we can jump into during the lesson to work on activities. It works for us. As a teacher I can dip into shared spaces at any time and guide and support learning which is a real advantage. 
flea palmer's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 6:56 AM
This is a really thorough tutorial and very timely as I'm currently exploring using Google Drive with students. Our dispersed team of Learning Technologists already use it for collaboration but there is not much use as yet by our academics and students. The ability to be able to integrate Drive with Google Hangouts is really powerful and has the potential to be a great tool for supporting Distance Learning.
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Rescooped by Alfredo Corell from Educación y TIC |
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From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Jesús Hernández, João Carreira, juandoming, Mariano Fernandez S.
Hector Ariceaga's curator insight,
August 12, 2013 3:01 PM
From the basic to the more advanced, these tips will help get the most out of Google's tools.
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Rescooped by Alfredo Corell from Digital Presentations in Education |
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"Google Presentation is a great tool for helping students construct knowledge about a topic as they create. Here is an interactive tutorial designed to demonstrate how to use some of the handy built in features."
Via Baiba Svenca
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These Google Docs tips inspire awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.
Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance – a must for students in online colleges for online marketing, for instance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there’s a good chance you’re not using Google Docs to its fullest capability. We’ve discovered 52 great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.
See also an analysis in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning:
Classroom enables a teacher to create a “class” at the touch of a button. She or he can upload syllabus materials, whether text, audio or video, and send out assignments on the class news feed.
Teachers see instantly who has turned in their homework. They can start a class discussion and provide feedback and grades; students can see what’s due and what’s late. The whole package integrates with the rest of Google’s apps, like Google Docs.
Still, not everyone is ready to embrace Google’s free education applications.