10 Great Google Posts #13

This is a great piece of work from our colleague Susan Oxnevad. This is basically a visual guide that features a wide gamut of ways to use Google Drive with your students. Enjoy

Folders allow you to organize your files in Google Drive. They also allow you to more efficiently share a collection of documents. If you've switched to the new Google Drive you can create a folder...

This is something useful to know - how to narrate over Google slides

.This is a video from Richard Byrne re Google Slides

Search All is a cool web app that allows you to conduct a quick search on different search engines. With one click you can search for the same topic on a wide variety of search platforms that include : Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, WolframeAlha and eBay. You can also use social networking websites such as Twitter and YouTube to run your searches. The app works perfectly on Chrome and can really speed up your search process.

  Google Voice ( allows you to sign up for a Google phone number and connect multiple phones to that phone number. You can have it set up to call your classroom phone, cell phone, and home pho...

AltSchools are more than schools. They’re mini-research and development labs, where teachers and engineers are developing the formula for 21st-century education.

hese new updates are geared towards enhancing Classroom performance by allowing teachers to stay updated of their classes whenever and wherever they are.  Here is a run-down of the new features. More releases are to be announced this week.

Here is an interesting resource we discovered through Tom D'Amico. The Ultimate Google Apps Training Guide is a 15 pages Google document created by The Gooru   to help teachers develop an informed understanding of the Google Apps ecosystem. The guide covers almost all of the important products of Google Apps Suite such as Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Drive, Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentation, and Google Plus.  You will get to learn about the basic features of each of these apps and have an idea of what you can do with them. Reviews are also backed by video tutorials and several other training materials.

Using Google Drive in Infants Alfina Jackson Coordinator Digital Pedagogy Immaculate Heart of Mary Sefton Google Certified Teacher 2014 Twitter: GeekyAusTeacher tinyurl.com/AJGAFESyd