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Retool Your School With Free Google Apps

In a brand new postcast offered by ISTE Books, James Lerman and Ronique Hicks, co-authors of Retool Your School: The Educator’s Essential Guide to Google’s Free Power Apps, discuss the benefits of bringing Google Apps into the classroom. Lerman and Hicks explain Google Applications Education Edition, share how educators are using Google [...]

Strap on Your Google Goggles for Visual Web Searching

Are you tired of all that cumbersome keyboard work? Well, Goggle has the cell phone ap for you.
Google launched a new visual search tool last week called Google Goggles. Just snap a picture and your phone will provide search results based on that image. For example, a shot of Mount Rushmore would bring up a [...]

Chrome for Mac User Friendly, Minimalistic

It’s been nearly 16 months since Google launched its Web browser Chrome by sending a 36-page comic to bloggers and developers in September 2009. However, as a Mac user, last week was my first chance to take Google Chrome for a test drive.
Although Google Chrome for Mac is still in beta, I had no trouble [...]

Google’s Android Phone Leads the Way: Augmented Reality

“The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
-William Gibson
While for many the idea of using Skype in the classroom to enhance instruction still seems far off in some science fiction author’s vision of the future, others are already using it and what’s more, they realize that it’s only the tip of the [...]

Google Chrome OS on Every Netbook in Every Classroom

Google made a key strategic move this week by announcing the existence of Google Chrome OS, which focuses on optimizing the user experience for those of us who “live on the web.” You can read more about the official announcement on Google’s Blog. Google’s new OS will be resources conscious, while easily working on x86 [...]

Changing assumptions about computing options

Many educators as well as parents today have computing expectations which are in need of adjustment. Zachary Saale’s post yesterday on ISTEconnects, “Education Technology in a Dual-Platform World,” reveals two of these expectations candidly. Many people assume we live in a two platform world, and assume that productivity software is naturally client-based. Both assumptions are [...]

Alternative Apps to Google Notebook

I’m over a month late getting this news, but since it’s a surprise to me it may be to others as well. Google is closing the door on new development and new users of Google Notebook. This is a REAL shame, in my view as well as others, since Google Notebook is a fantastic way [...]