At the end of January, Gmail Labs released an experimental feature that allows you to work with Gmail even when you are offline. If you are a Gmail user like me, this might be one to try. I know that I have come to rely more and more on Gmail to aggregate all my email accounts. Basically, it works this way. If you lose your network connection, and we all do at times, Gmail then [...]

There are a lot of exciting things that can be done with Google Docs, and one of them is the ability to easily enter and share data for analysis and evaluation. Here is one simple example. Let’s say that we have a science lesson in which we ask students to measure the growth of plants. We first create a form in Google Docs to capture the desired data. Here is a sample form that students [...]

If I needed to contact you, would I be able to find you online? Could your students? Other educators? I believe, like other educational bloggers, that it is essential to be able to find  and connect with educators today on the web. If you have followed prominent edubloggers Will Richardson or Dr. Scott McLeod, you know that they have both written about the value of having an online presence. Some refer to this concept as [...]

I use Google as my primary web search engine. I am attracted by the site’s simple design, but more importantly for the powerful tools that are readily available. One workshop session I attended at the T+L conference on Wednesday afternoon reminded me of one feature that I had not used recently… Google offers users the ability to use Language Tools that can translate text typed into the original text field. In the example below, I [...]