Posts Tagged ‘Google’

eLearning Newsletter Issue 3 – Google Maps & Earth Special

I have just completed the second edition of the SHS E-Learning Newsletter.  This issue’s focus was:

Google Maps/Earth Special!
MFL – Street View
History – Historical Imagery
Science – Tours of the World
Maths – Collaborative Maps
Further Reading / Ideas

Check it out here, or sign up for the next edition over on the right in the [...]

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Google Wave – First Impressions for Schools

Well you can’t have missed the fact that Google has finally unleashed Google Wave to 100,000 lucky testers, and with it a tsunami of hype.  I was lucky enough to be one of the 100,000 first wave.  Enough of the puns, if you want a bytesize explanation of what Wave is then this video is [...]

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Google Wave – Directory of Educators

I will post my first impressions of Google Wave soon, in the meantime we have started building a directory of educators who are using Wave at the moment.  This can be found here.

Technorati Tags: directory, education, educators, Google, Google Wave, teachers

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Google’s New Operating System

So today Google announced that they will be introducing their very own Google Chrome OS.

This follows in the wake of excellent the Google Chrome web browser which was released last year.  Designed initially for netbooks, it appears that the OS will effectively be little more than a web browser.  The beauty of this is that [...]

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Google Wave – the beginning of the end for VLEs?

Google announced a new product to the World at it’s Google I/O conference yesterday, Google Wave.

There has been much written about it around the Web, by folks more intelligent than I, so if you want to catch up on the intricacies then read some of these sites:
Ars Technica Tech Crunch Tech Crunch again LifeHacker DownloadSquad
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Jotspot = Google Sites

DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite.  More to come when I’ve had a play around with it.  could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent Wikispaces in [...]

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