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Google Docs can import old Office Formats, but exports them as new format

Educational Technology Guy

Google Docs will no longer export files into the old Microsoft Office Formats (.doc,xls,ppt). This will also affect Google Apps accounts. And Google Drive since that''s where everyone''s Docs are going. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. doc,xls,ppt).

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5 Ways to Empower Girls

The CoolCatTeacher

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Lynn Colón – Bio As Submitted Lynmara Colón brings the perspective of a teacher, assistant principal, and principal positions she has held since joining education in 2003 to her work in literacy. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

We must also support educators with the knowledge and skills to use technology in powerful ways to improve student engagement, critical thinking, problems solving, collaboration, and more. The Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) is part of Google’s broader commitment to helping underserved communities benefit from the power of technology.

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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. ” The post Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.

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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system. The computer courses page has 19 courses including Computer Basics, Email, Internet, Social Media, Google Apps, iPads, and much more. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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169 Tech Tip #78: Save a File so Everyone Can Read it

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Google Apps. What do I do?

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

The future of education is technological. Education must adopt not only the products but the values of the high tech industry. Google and Facebook, whose executives are clearly the villains of Zuboff’s book, have keen interests in the education market too. Necessarily so.