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[|Googlios] [] E-portfolios are becoming more and more popular. This site teaches educators and students how to organize all of their digital content in one place (a Google Site) for showing off their best work. Using a Google Site is actually pretty easy but Googlios goes into great detail on how to create and maintain the portfolio and has a huge gallery of examples to draw inspiration from. Below is a preview video from the site.

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[|Simple Google Docs Training] [] This is a short (3 min, 56 sec) video slide show, introducing the features of Google Docs. If you are thinking about using Docs with your students or staff, this video could be a good jumping off point to your discussion.

[|Google Tricks To Save You Time] [] There are over 100 tips and tricks on this page. Everything from the most basic, like how to use the image search to keyboard shortcuts for your favorite apps (like Docs, Gmail and more), to how to use simple commands to perform deep web searches that will hopefully get you to what you are looking for faster. The best part for me were the tips for Google Books. Be sure to save this site. You will visit it often!

[|10 Google Forms For The Classroom] [] One of my favorite Edtech bloggers, [|Tom Barrett], post this a few months back but I keep visiting it because there are such great ideas. In short it is a list of 10 ideas on how to use Google Forms in the classroom. And the ideas are so great. Everything from the regular survey stuff to a prior learning assessment, to kids' book reviews. There are some great ideas in the comments as well.

[|Sharing Stories With Google Earth] [] I have written about Google Lit trips in the past, mainly showing the connection between technology an literature. Lit trips are great but what about other subject areas? This site will show you how to create your own story trips, step-by-step in Google Earth. Creating them is easy. The hard part will be figuring out all the great stories you want to tell! Lots of videos, handouts and directions here to guide you.

Googleize Your Lessons http://googlizealesson.wikispaces.com/ "Take your old worksheets, slideshows and webquests, and add a twist of Google to make creative, collaborative and engaging lessons," is the motto at the top of this site. There is tons of great information on the simple things teachers can do to spice up lessons using free Google tools. Here is an introductory preso to tell you all about it.

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Ideas Replace outdated, inappropriate, incorrect, busy, biased, or boring **information sources ** with search tools such as Google Advanced Search, News, Books, or Customized Search. Upload **worksheets ** or **slide shows ** to create collaborative versions in Google Docs, Spreadsheets, or Presentation. Create **deeper meaning ** and address various learning styles by making connections to content using Google Maps, Earth, or Video. Collect, organize, analyze, represent, and share **lesson or assessment data **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> using Google Forms and Spreadsheets.

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Teachers and educators talk about google docs...good movie. Includes one teacher saying that she can see who's doing the lion's share of the work! []

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How Students and Teachers can use Google Docs
Google Docs' sharing features enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

Teachers are using Google Docs both to publish announcements about upcoming assignments and to monitor student progress via an interactive process which allows you to give guidance when it might be of maximum benefit – while your student is still working on an assignment. Through the revisions history, you can see clearly who contributed to what assignment and when; if a student says he or she worked on a given project over the last two weeks, it will be documented (no more "dog ate my homework" excuses).

Students will find that Google Docs can help them stay organized and keep on top of their assignments. They never have to remember to save their work; it happens automatically. It's easy to collaborate online with fellow students, even when they aren't in the same place, and they can get feedback easily from teachers, parents, relatives and tutors, and enter updates anytime from anywhere. And kids can go back to the revisions history to see how their assignment has evolved, and who has helped.

Always wanted to try Google Docs in your classroom but didn't know where to begin? We've put together a handy-dandy step-by-step guide to help you get started In October of 2007, Google held a "Global Warming Student Speakout". We invited teachers to join us in a project that gave students from all over a chance to collectively brainstorm strategies for fighting global warming and have their ideas published in a full-page ad in a major newspaper. If you're interested to see how we used Google for this, check out the [|Global Warming Student Speakout site]. Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's *[|Writing for Teens]* magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. [|Download the PDF]. [|Take a tour of Google Docs »] Found or developed a lesson using Google Docs? Tell us about it!
 * //Some real-life example of Google Docs collaboration in action://**

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