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…
We’ve been previewing Google Springboard and the new Google Sites with a small set of customers, and we’re excited to begin to extend each of these new apps to more customers through an Early Adopter Program. Source: Google Apps update alerts: Powering a more connected and collaborative enterprise Google Springboard sounds like Google Now, except…
Are you a senior graduating this spring? Or a teacher switching districts? Or do you sleep better at night knowing you have a backup copy of your data? Then Google has you covered. Google offers a way to download all of your information stored at Google through Google Takeout, which is available at https://google.com/takeout. Once you…
Google released its Gboard keyboard a week or so ago, and I’ve been testing it out. Previously, I used the default keyboard the most, followed up by the Swiftkey keyboard, but both now take a backseat to Gboard. Any keyboard I use has to have excellent text prediction. I usually type without looking at the…
Google announced at its I/O 2016 Developer Conference that Chromebooks will soon be able to run Android apps, opening up a library of 1.5 million apps for use on the Google Chromebooks. The implications are pretty big for education, and it’s happening this year. The numbers Chromebooks now make up over half of the devices…
Google’s developer conference is going on this week, so that means a lot of announcements out of Google. Yesterday Google showed off Allo and Duo, an instant messaging and video chat app. Both apps require the use of your cell phone number for identification, so they will not be of much use when working with…
Yesterday Google released Spaces, a web and mobile app, designed to facilitate sharing in small groups. It’s not to be confused with another instant messaging client, but more along the lines of a way to share links, pictures, and videos with a small group of people. I installed the mobile app and took the web…
Being an Mac school, we have use iPhoto (now Photos) a lot to manage all of the photos collected during the school year. But, now that Google offers unlimited storage of photos (it resizes the photos to 2048×2048 for non-Google Apps for Education Users) it makes sense to move photo storage to Google Photos. Getting…
Is Google teaching us anything? – Shooting Azimuths In his book The Shallows, Nicholas Carr suggests that the internet is making us dumber. Carr finds that the vast amount of hyperlinked information available on the internet means that depth of knowledge has given way to shallowness. Casually disregarding the internet’s arguably most significant feature, Carr…
Google Saves Oh, Google, there you go again. Sometime since this morning, when I searched Google Images for my blog post, and later in the day (now), when I did it again, I saw two buttons that were not there before… What a great feature to add. It looks like they have grander visions for…