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Google calculator - it's no TI-89, but it's pretty cool

As I was wrapping up some coursework last night, I cut and pasted a modulus expression into my Google search bar, hoping for some references on how to solve a particular problem. Google instead offered a solution to the problem and pointed me to their calculator function. In...

Tags: Google, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-08

Google Apps for Education gets even easier

Google announced yesterday that they were adding automated email migration tools to the Premier and Education editions of Google Apps for Your Domain. The latter is free for educational institutions. The automated migration tool allows administrators to simply copy mail from their existing IMAP server to Google's servers....

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Can Google do it all?

Google's been in the news a lot lately, mostly for perceived wrongdoings, but also for quite a bit of innovation, including a drive to drastically reduce the carbon footprint of the computer industry. All of this media coverage has certainly gotten me thinking about the way I use Google...

Tags: Google, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Safari for Windows! Yawn...

So Apple finally realized that most of the world doesn't have a Mac and are probably using Windows even if they have an iPod or plan to buy an iPhone. As a result, they released the first public beta of their web browser, Safari, for Windows. Hooray, another...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Google privacy a non-issue for Ed Tech

Most people know I'm a Google devotee. I live by Gmail, I introduce web design to my students with Blogspot, I introduce Web 2.0 to my students with Google Apps. I love Google. The interface is spiffy, the search results are good, and it is chock full...

Tags: Privacy, Google, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Google gives Sketchup Pro to Maine schools

The Maine Learning Technology initiative provides all Maine middle schoolers with an Apple iBook.  Google announced recently that they would be donating Sketchup Pro to this initiative for preinstallation on all of the iBooks, as well as all public education computers in the state.  Sketchup is Google's easy-to-use three-dimensional modeling...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Google makes web more accessible for non-English speakers

And for those who don't speak it natively...And for those who do but really want to access non-English websites.According to the Google Blog entry on the topic:"While machine translation is not perfect, it's usually good enough for you to obtain the gist of information in a language you might otherwise...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-23

No more essay-writing ads on Google

The BBC reported yesterday that Google will shortly be banning paid essay-writing services from their list of advertisers. In addition to their existing ban on "weapons, prostitution, drugs, tobacco, fake documents and "miracle cures". While advertisers have been quick to criticize the ban for punishing legitimate business, educators...

Tags: Education Technology, Google, Higher Ed

Blog posts 2007-05-23

iGoogle...Another reason to love Google

Google recently rebranded their personalized home page as iGoogle (I wonder when the lawsuits from Apple will be filed?). Nothing much changed. I had been using the personalized portal for a while and thought it was pretty spiffy. The interface allows you to easily drag and drop...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Privacy is for the ignorant

Lately, Ive increasingly had trouble understanding why people worry about privacy, particularly online. Several people responded to Teachers + MySpace = Bad Idea? and Google spyware? Fine by me… with concerns about privacy. This includes people who were worried about their personal information floating around Googles servers as...

Tags: Legal Issues, K-12, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-30

It's not always about the tech

Unfortunately, there will be no Edubuntu update tonight as promised in my last blog. In addition to teaching math and computing (and, beginning this fall, physics!), and running all things IT at my high school, Im also one of the drama club advisors. I decided I wasnt actually...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Google spyware? Fine by me...

A reader of one of my last posts, "Google Presentations…one more step in the right direction", did not share my enthusiasm for Google Apps:"More Google spyware One more way for Google to build their database about you. Or, you could just use Google for search, and keep their database at...

Tags: Education Technology, Web, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Google Presentations...one more step in the right direction

Googles announcement of presentation software to be added to their existing Docs and Spreadsheets applications is welcome news for those of us in Ed Tech. Google doesnt pretend that this is meant to compete with MS Office or even OpenOffice and it doesnt represent a viable alternative to these...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Swarthmore testing Google Apps for email and more

Although many college students already have a Gmail account, along with their school email and other accounts, Swarthmore College is checking out the education edition of Google Apps service to replace their current service,reports the Swarthmore Phoenix. Before Swarthmore dumps their Swatmail service, IT is taking a hard...

Tags: Google, Education Technology, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Google goes to school

What to do when youre one of the best in your field and have all the money you could ever spend? You mentor — which is exactly what 26-year-old Christophe Bisciglia, Google programmer extraordinaire, is doing - by teaching a class in Google 101, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Bisciglia...

Tags: Computer science, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Wikipedia now a top site, thanks to Google

Despite university bans and limitations on its use, Wikipedia has scored in the top 10 rankings of hot Internet properties for this month, reports Tech News World. With 42.9 million unique visitors, Wikipedia earned ninth place ranking on comScores traffic watchers list of top 50 properties for the month....

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-22

Teaching Google

Google is many things to Ed Tech, not all of them completely positive. Sure, its a great search engine, although Google Images can provide students with a lot of naughty thumbnails, even if the source sites are blocked by your content filters. It is also most likely the...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-15

An alternative to Google's book-scanning project

The Internet Archive received a $1 million grant from the New York-based Sloan Foundation to digitize the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, AP reports. The grant marks a challenge to Google, which has been working with universities to digitize...

Tags: Open Content Alliance, Google Inc., Libraries, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-22

Google advertises best student ideas on global warming

Killing two birds with one stone might not be an apt aphorism for the latest Google Docs & Spreadsheets marketing ploy. But the the dominant Internet search engines new project involves students using Google Docs to brainstorm solutions to global warming, eSchool News reports. Students from over 20...

Tags: Google Docs, Google Inc., Students, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Google targets schools with Docs & Spreadsheets

Googles recently launched Docs & Spreadsheets apps are cool - you dont have to worry about syncing up files between desktop and laptop or losing work stored on crashed hard drives, and you can easily collaborate with others - but business users are probably not yet going to abandon Microsoft...

Tags: Unlike Gmail Googles, Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Inc., Education Technology, K-12

Blog posts 2006-12-05