Technology+-+Google+&+Twitter+Links

=GOOGLE =

= = Google Docs

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__**6 Tips to Help You Get the Most out of Google Docs**__

 __**57 Useful Google Tools Scholars, Students and Hobbyists**__

 **Geometry with Google SketchUp **

 __**Getting Started in Google Docs**__

 __**Google Apps Training**__
 * Google Apps brings together essential services to help your business, school, group or family communicate and collaborate more effectively.
 * These services are powerful, easy to set up, require little-to-no maintenance, and are available for free.
 * Everything is unified by the Start Page, a central place for you and other users to preview your inboxes and calendars, access essential content, and search the web.

__**Google Docs in class | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age**__

 __**Google for Educators - Custom Search Engine**__

 __**Google SketchUp - Your world in 3D**__

 __**Google-ize Your Staff Development**__
 * The integration of technology into the classroom is an important tool in today's world. One of our jobs as teachers is to model lifelong learning and using the most current resources and teaching practices should be a part of every teachers daily practice.
 * However, for many of us technology is foreign tool. We did not grow up with it, rather is has slowly infiltrated our lives and provided us with access to tools and resources that were never thought possible. But in order to use these tools and find their relevance in our classrooms, staff development needs to be a part of our lives as well. If we want to teachers to integrate technology, we must provide them with the training and support they need to make it happen.
 * Google has a number of great applications that can assist you with the technology staff development efforts in your school and the best part about it, is that they are all free and easy to use.

__**Google's Wonder Wheel **__
 * Dominating the internet search field, Google has become the first stop for many student researchers. The challenge is that students often search general terms---poverty, global warming, war, drought---and end up buried under millions and millions of results. To help researchers break search results into logical subcategories that are easier to manage, Google has created a new tool called the Wonder Wheel---and this handout will show your students how to use it!

 __**More Google Products**__

 __**Official Google Docs Blog: For Beginners: 3 Getting Started Guides**__

 __**Welcome to Google Docs**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twenty Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in the Classroom**__

=<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">TWITTER =

= = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__**12 Ways to share files on Twitter**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers | Online Colleges **__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education by Blog By Carol**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**100 Twitter Tools to Go to The Top - Ultimate Collection! - Gnoted.com**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Educational Web Sites Twitter**__


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Eric Sheninger (NMHS Principal) - Dynamic educators who believe in collaboration and edtech **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Guide to Twitter - The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter | Webdesigner Depot**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**internet4classrooms (internet4classr) on Twitter**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**K-3 Teachers Guide to Twitter**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Larry Ferlazzo's - Best Twitterers for Sharing Resource Links**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**PLN How to Wiki - suewaters - home **__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Titles Escape Me, Friends Don't - The Educators' Royal Treatment**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher | Best Colleges Online**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Tweet Deck Free on-line training in using technology in teaching**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twitter Handbook for Teachers**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**TwitterBackgrounds.com | Free Twitter Backgrounds, Custom Twitter Backgrounds**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twitter4teachers / FrontPage**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twitter Resources for Teachers**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twitter Wiki for Beginners**__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> __**Twtpoll - a simple survey twitter application**__