An excellent tutorial video produced by Google for their suite of products. [via Free Technologies for Teachers]

A Google produced video that gathers a number of educators who rave about the benefits of Google Docs in their schools. I’ve used Google Docs to complete group assignments during my online AQ Courses (Additional Qualifications for my Ontario Teaching Certificate) and it really does make life a breeze. Instead of waiting on individuals with [...]

HealthMap, dubbed as the ‘global disease alert map’, links news regarding disease outbreaks from around the world into a searchable Google Map interface. The service recently detected the salmonella outbreak in the U.S., which had sickened over 1,000 people, long before the Centre for Disease Control announced that it was happening.
HealthMap integrates outbreak data [...]

I do love the Google Earth product, as seen by at previous post where I share a method to help students visualize the vast size and distances that exist in our solar system. TechCrunch has written today about the increasing number of scientists who are using Google Earth to visualize their information. I find Google [...]

Earth Knowledge is an environmental news portal that aggregates news from around the Internet and plots it on a map of the world. It sports a slick well designed layout, and provides a simple filtering system for different types of environmental news divided into the categories: Biological Diversity, Land, Water and Climate. Each of those [...]

Google is hosting the Google Teacher Academy (GTA) at the Googleplex Mountain View, CA on June 25, 2008. It is a free event where tech savvy educators and professional developers can participate full-day workshop.
The GTA is an intensive, one-day event (8:30am-7:30pm) where participants get hands-on experience with Google’s free products and other technologies, learn [...]

A great article at Weblogg-ed, and one that hits home for me as I am very googleable, talks about employers performing an Internet search on potential candidates, and how this more-and-more common act should shape how we teach children about their online presence. I often wonder what the next few years will look like, when [...]