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Earlier this week the Google Teacher Academy ran for a second UK outing at the new London offices on St Giles High Street. It was a privilege once again to have the opportunity to help plan, organise and be part of the 2 days. 50 educators from around the world came together for some rapid ...

The Interesting Ways series of resources continue to grow as the community add ideas from the classroom. Below is one of the most popular with over 70 ideas shared by teachers for using Google Forms in a range of different ways. Make sure that you explore nearly 40 other crowdsourced resource like the one above ...

This is the third and final part in a short series I am reposting from the Official Google Docs blog which I wrote back in 2008. I introduce people to the concept of sharing ideas in the form of the Interesting Ways resources – both learning about the tool itself and sharing good practice about ...

This is the second in a series of 3 posts I wrote for the Official Google Docs Blog – in this one I share some common challenges teachers face when students begin working together on collaborative projects. // Communication is important, not the tool The success of our own class projects was not influenced by how ...

In 2008 I was invited to write a series of blog posts for the Official Google Docs blog. I have decided to repost them here to highlight some of the challenges I faced at the time and in an effort to help you, not only with the use of Google Docs but also other online ...

It is often difficult to explain what Creative Commons licensing is to students and teachers – this short film does a pretty good job of presenting the facts. I do think there is a need for more high quality resources to help teach licensing of digital content and especially resources to communicate what it all ...

It has probably been around for a while but I have just spotted the Google Image Search within a Google Document. But more significant is that the images are automatically filtered according to a commercial re-use license. Whatever you find there will be acceptable to use.  You can see how the image search box within ...

In the hope of widening my understanding of the perception of formative assessment, or assessment for learning as some like to call it, and also the broad nature of the challenges we face in the classroom, I have started this collaborative document. People from all over the world have outlined what they believe are the ...

Admittedly this is a great advert for Google Docs, but it also struck me that what I considered a simple tool can still create incredible things in the right hands. This little film really challenged my preconceptions about Docs – a sort of “I didn’t know it could do that!” moment. Just discovered this nice ...

Flubaroo Website Flubaroo lets you grade online assignments in a single step, get reporting and analysis on student performance and email students their scores. What do you think of Flubaroo? ...