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February 7, 2008
by Clint
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Google Docs adds Forms

Google Docs users have a new tool at their disposal – forms. And it looks dead easy to use. Create a spreadsheet, share it as a form, choose who you want to email that form to and Google Docs will … Continue reading

February 2, 2008
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I just joined Twitter and I’m lonely – wait a sec…Google can fix that!

Google releases Social Graph API The scenario: EdTech geek finally joins YASN (Yet Another Social Network), in this case Twitter. Said EdTech geek now needs to find friends also using Twitter (and find a reason to use it) or else … Continue reading

November 8, 2007
by Clint
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Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs

Google for Educators has partnered with Writing magazine to put together a handy little piece on how to use Google Docs to teach collaborative revision. The content is aimed at secondary students, but still contains some useful takeaways for post-sec, … Continue reading

September 27, 2007
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Google Calendar knows Gmail

I’m not a power user of any of the Google tools. I have accounts and I do use Docs & Spreadsheets, Calendar and Gmail, but I barely scratch the surface beyond the basics of these tools. So when I stumbled … Continue reading

September 19, 2007
by Clint
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Google Presentations is up

Just checked my Google Docs account after being tipped off by Mr. Belshaw. Sure enough, Google has finally launched their Presentations application as part of Google Docs and Spreadsheets. To access the presentation software, click on New in Google Docs. … Continue reading

August 21, 2007
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Google releases new research API

Some new geeky goodness from Google aimed squarely at researchers. The University Research Program for Google Search is a new API that gives programmers the ability to tap into Google. In their words: The University Research Program for Google Search … Continue reading