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10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom

The Thinking Stick

Google Maps has been out for 10 years now. In 2007…8 years ago now… Apple put a map in our pocket. With that in mind here are 10 ways you could use Google Maps in the classroom. Google Sightseeing blog: View some of the great images from around the world. Latitude Longitude Scavenger Hunts. Earth Picker.

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Buffering: A Recap of a Weekend Google Summit

EdTechTeam

Cross-post from Anderson EdTech Over the weekend of January 28-29, I attended the EdTechTeam's Las Vegas Google Summit. In my defense, I had her in the 2007-2008 school year, so it had been a long time since I had seen her. You can also download apps for Android and iOS.

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. Check out his iPad Apps for Schools and Android for Schools.

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. Google launched the alpha test of its Chrome OS netbook which lives in the cloud. Both Apple and Android report strong sales/downloads of applications to mobile devices. Cloud computing is here to stay. Everyone seems to be jumping on board.

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’15 The Year of Wearable

The Thinking Stick

2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2010: The Year of the Mobile Web (iPad, Android, iPhone do I need to say more?). I spent some time with her setting up her new phone and one of the things I had her download was the Google Fit app as well as RunKeeper. Here’s my other predictions….I’ll

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10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know

Shake Up Learning

The post 10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know appeared first on Shake Up Learning. With Google Docs more popular than ever in education, I thought I should share some of my favorite tips. I have 10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know. Over the years, I have shared a lot of Google tips. Click To Tweet.

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10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know

Shake Up Learning

The post 10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know appeared first on Shake Up Learning. With Google Docs more popular than ever in education, I thought I should share some of my favorite tips. I have 10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know. Over the years, I have shared a lot of Google tips. Click To Tweet.

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