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An Educator's Guide to Google Apps for Education
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by Chris Carey, John Lien, Maurice Draggon, and Sheila Ryan
Sales Rank: 412987
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List Price: $29.95
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Plastic Comb: 115 pages
Publisher: FTC Publishing Inc. October 1, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979878713
ISBN-13: 978-0979878718
Product Dimensions:
10.6 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Product Description
An Educator's Guide to Google Apps for Education outlines the numerous tools that are available for free from Google. Applications include Google Maps, Picassa, Blogger, Google Earth, Docs and Spreadsheets and many more. These applications and services can all be downloaded or used online for free! This must have teacher resource book will also help you maximize your Google searches, making time in the computer lab more productive. The handy activity guide in the back of the book helps students become more familiar with each of the applications discussed. These activities are easy to follow and fun to use. Each lesson can be tailored to fit the needs of the student. Educational suggestions in each chapter help integrate each Google Application into the classroom. An Educator's Guide to Google Apps for Education will help you utilize the Internet to its full potential. Use Google Apps to energize your classroom, to engage your students and to get your students active and using Google to the best of their ability.
Customer Reviews & Comments
First, it is important to understand what this book does not attempt to do, which may explain my disappointment. It does not attempt to look at Google Apps Education Edition as an email/groupware solution for a school. (As a Tech Director in a school that's what I was looking for.) It also makes no attempt to address the "problem areas" for using Google Apps in a school, such as inappropriate "gadgets" like "Hot Babes" available to teachers and students if you enable the Start Page or Google Sites. Another problem area not discussed is the need to assign access privileges individually instead of using groups or mail lists. Since it is a rather small book (115 pp.) I thought its rather expensive price tag might be worth it if if covered some of those topics. Instead, it just introduces the various Google-related applications and discusses advanced search techniques. Only the last 20 pages offer potentially useful classroom projects utilizing Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Calendar, Picassa, Google SketchUp and Blogger. Alas, the teacher website instructions do not correspond to the way Google Sites works in the current Google Apps Education Edition and seem to assume the teacher is using her/her own Google Apps account instead of a school domain. This may be explained by the 2007 copyright date. I hope more useful information for me will be found in other books that are less expensive and more up-to-date.
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An Educator's Guide to Google Apps for Education
List Price: $29.95
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Price: $29.95
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