20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools | Ditch That Textbook

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With its highly collaborative, online/offline format — and its attractive price tag (free!) — many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools.

The way that Google Apps is interactive and easy to share is powerful. My students can share ideas in real time with other students around the world, an option that never existed before.

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This is a great list of alternatives for using Google Apps in the classroom.

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