Google+for+Educators

This link takes you to Google Apps for Education which offers free **APPS** for schools. Google has a full line of applications that are available not only to the public, but also to teachers. To discover what applications are available for any member of Google, just set up a Google account for yourself and/or your class. Create a home page for your classroom using your Google account. You can add gadgets to your account by going to the gadgets and finding what you would like your students to view each day when they log on. (news, weather, recipes, games, etc.) To discover the applications that are available go to your Google homepage and click on more and then "even more." This will give you a full list of applications that you can use for yourself or for your class. From your gmail account you have the ability to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, collections, surveys, and more.

In addition to these apps there is another site that is dedicated solely to education that is located at [|http://www.google.com/educators/index.html]

The following video explains how Google apps can work for your school. media type="custom" key="9675176" width="110" height="110" align="left"

As a teacher, you have the ability to create Websites, Web Quests, Wikis, Blogs and more.

Your Assignment for Project 7 is to go to **[|Google's]** website and view the many services and tools that are useful for educators as well as family and friends. (If you don't already have an account, you will have to create one.) You can see a list of the services by going to the **//MORE//** tab on the top of the page, view these tools and then go to **//even more//** and you will see a complete listing of all the tools that are provided by Google. Additionally, Google has a website specifically for educators. Go to **[|Google for Educator] a**nd review the resources available for teachers. Your assignment is to:: Submit your response to the Wiki discussion.
 * describe how you and/or your district allows the use of Google, do you see it as a useful tool in the classroom.
 * find at least 2 Google tools that you could use with your class in a lesson. Describe that lesson and the use of the Google tools used in it.
 * find a lesson in Google for Educators that you could use for your class and submit the URL and name if that lesson.