Google+Tools

It should be noted that there are many Google apps but only a few will be mentioned here. These applications can be used to communicate with others or gather information from others to be store for later use. Most Google applications can be share with others.

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 * **Google Hangout** - is instant messaging and video chat tool that lets tow or more users hold conversations using text, voice or video.
 * **Google Bookmarks** - is a service that allows you to save bookmarks online so that they can be retrieved from any web-enabled computer.
 * **Google Calendar** - is an online calendar tool that allows access by web-enable devices. It also allows users to share and collaborate events.
 * **Google Drive (Docs)** - are online productivity tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, forms and presentations that are accessed on any web-enabled computers. Google Docs allows multiple users to view, share and edit docs simultaneously. These documents can be private, or share with others.
 * Google Documents (word processing)
 * Google Spreadsheets
 * Google Forms -
 * Google Presentations
 * Google Drawings
 * **Google Sites** - is a free web site service that allow Google users to create webpages. There are templates to select from that make creating the web site easier.,
 * **YouTube Channels** - a video sharing site owned by Google. YouTube has channels that Google users subscribe to easily post or access videos with a common theme or by an individual or group.
 * **Google Alerts** -are email updates of the latest relevant Google results from predefined searches.
 * **Google Maps** - is a web application that provides interactive maps to web-enabled devices.
 * **Google Earth** - is 3-D application that installs on your computer. It uses satellite and photographs to display 3-D maps.
 * Google Alerts - is an application that sends updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) that you have selected to receive.
 * **[|Blogger]** - is a website for hosting "journals" and online diaries. These journals or diaries are called __#|web logs__ and then shortened to **[|blogs]** . Authors posting to these websites are called bloggers. Bloggers usually post entries on a regular basic. Readers of the blogs can interact by adding comments to the posts. Topics of these blogs vary greatly according to the interest of the blogger. Blogs accomodate various media tools to be embedded in the blog to enhance to delivery of the authors message.
 * **Google for Educators** [[image:edappscircle.gif width="182" height="188" caption="Google for Educators" link="@http://www.google.com/educators/index.html"]]


 * Resources from Other Sites**

Caroline Bucky-Beaver, an __Educational Technology__ Coordinator for a suburban Atlanta school district, has created a wiki on GoogleTools. This wiki uses a Glogster poster for a portal to the other pages on the wiki.

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