Add Stock Images to Google Documents

You can now add stock images to your Google Documents! When editing a Google Doc, click on the "Insert>Image." Select "Search" and then "Stock Images."

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5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make with iPads

This is a great post in from Edudemic about using iPads in the classroom. 5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make with iPads

The iPad – What it should and shouldn’t be for Education

The iPad – What it should and shouldn’t be for Education

Apps in Education: 10 Apps for Documenting Learning

Apps in Education: 10 Apps for Documenting Learning: One of the things that really excites me about the iPad is the ability of the students to show their learning. I am not talking about the en...

Reflect & Refine: Building a Learning Community: Six Ways to Use Evernote to Capture Learning

Reflect & Refine: Building a Learning Community: Six Ways to Use Evernote to Capture Learning: Last week I participated in a  Google hangout with several colleagues from Twitter  and learned so much.  Our discussion was focused on t...

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Get things done anytime, anywhere: Announcing offline document editing and Google Drive for iOS

Get things done anytime, anywhere: Announcing offline document editing and Google Drive for iOS: Posted by Clay Bavor, Product Management Director

(Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog.)

In April, we introduced Google Drive, a place where you can create, share, and keep all your stuff. Today at the Google I/O conference we announced two new ways to get things done in the cloud: offline editing for Google documents and a Drive app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Offline document editing 
No internet connection? No big deal. With offline editing, you can create and edit Google documents and leave comments. Any changes you make will be automatically synced when you get back online.

You can enable offline editing from the gear icon in Google Drive and find more detailed instructions for getting set up in the Help Center. Note that you’ll need the latest versions of Chrome or ChromeOS to edit offline. We’re also working hard to make offline editing for spreadsheets and presentations available in the future.

Google Drive for iOS 
We launched the Drive app for Android phones and tablets a few weeks ago, and starting today, Google Drive is available for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

With the Drive app, you can open PDFs, photos, videos, documents and anything else stored in your Drive while you're on the go. You can also search all your files, add collaborators to documents, and make files available offline to view them even without an internet connection. For blind and low-vision users, the app also works great in VoiceOver mode. Learn more about what you can do with the app in our Help Center.

Get Drive in the App Store for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5.0+ and visit the Play Store to get the latest on your Android phone or tablet.

To learn more about Google Drive, visit drive.google.com/start.

Why I Switched to Google Chrome

For the past year I have straddled the fence between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, but this summer I decided to stop the fickleness and bravely commit to being a Google Chrome user all the way.  I have not looked back!  Here are some of the reasons my browser of choice will stay Google Chrome:


1.  The Omnibox: type a URL or a search term into the same box
2.  YouTube extensions: Clea.nr YouTube is a good choice for education.  Here is a screen shot: 

You can also add an extension that will allow you to download YouTube videos with a click of a button from within YouTube.

3.  Google Chrome iPad App that syncs tabs with Desktop App
4.  Voice search on Google Chrome iPad App
5.  Save to Kindle extension: save a web page right to your Kindle
6.  Text to Speech:  Have almost any web content read in your choice of 
     speeds and voices (Australian, anyone?)
7.  Invisiblehand:  Works in the background to find cheaper prices when you 
    are shopping on the internet.
8.  Google Chrome plays nice with Google Apps!


That is just a start.  Please sure your favorite Chrome extensions.

Google Drive

Have you noticed that Google Docs will soon be changing to Google Drive? I applaud this Google update, because "Drive" more clearly fits the function of Google Docs: a free online back-up service to store up to 5GB of your files, accessible anywhere you have internet access. You can make the switch yourself by following the links on your Google Docs page, or wait until Google makes the transition for you (I recommend the former if you don't like surprises!). Google Drive syncs in real time with all of your devices. One nice Google Drive feature is that you can email documents to yourself or others as attachments and they no longer have to conform with the 25 MB file size.