{"id":68,"date":"2013-06-05T20:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmclaughlin.com\/web\/?p=68"},"modified":"2022-11-21T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:56:02","slug":"google-apps-6-5-3013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/google-apps-6-5-3013\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Apps 6\/5\/3013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Apps it\u2019s more then just Google Docs with a catchy slogan. \u00a0It\u2019s real power is in the\u00a0App Marketplace<\/a>. \u00a0There are 90 apps just listed under the EDU category alone and most of them are free. \u00a0Just click on the App Marketplace link or search google for App Marketplace and you will get to the store front.<\/p>\n

On that page you will find the listing of apps. \u00a0Each app comes with a description, the price, a rating, \u00a0and several icons. \u00a0The icons tell the user which native Google Drive apps are able to be linked with the particular app. \u00a0For example one app is called\u00a0Engrade<\/a>\u00a0it links directly to google calendar and google docs. \u00a0Engrade is a free web based grade book and lesson planner.<\/p>\n

The beauty of google apps is that many of the apps you already use could be listed as a google app. \u00a0This means the apps can link right to your Google Drive account. \u00a0In fact last weeks\u00a0Techformation<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Easybib<\/a>\u00a0is a great example. \u00a0This is a google app and links to the single sign on and the universal navigation. Universal Navigation apps \u00a0are apps that integrate with the universal navigation bar and are listed on the\u00a0more<\/strong>\u00a0menu in Google Apps. \u00a0This means you and your students don\u2019t need several URL\u2019s to memorize. \u00a0One login to Google and it is all right there for them. \u00a0(Did I mention this is all free!) \u00a0 \u00a0Single sign on<\/a>\u00a0is the ability to just sign into google accounts and not have to sign into anything else. \u00a0This requires a bit of work to set up but your schools network administrator should be able to do it. These two together make your Google account a dashboard of Web 2.0 apps.<\/p>\n

If your school has not yet signed up for Google apps for Education then<\/p>\n

>>> WHY NOT ! <<<<<\/p>\n

It is free and takes about 10 min to set up. It comes with the added advantage of a school email account for all your students. Pester you network admin to do that and if you don\u2019t have \u00a0a network admin ask your principal to let you set it up. Or just set up your own Virtual school. \u00a0They will sell you a domain name for $8 mrmclaughlin.tv is the one I bought, but this takes about two weeks to verify that you are some kind of education institution. \u00a0 Google provides tons of support to do this. (or you could just contact me and I would be happy to help)
\nSo here is a list of some of my favorite Google apps (comment and let me know yours):<\/p>\n

Aviary<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Free design tools and templates to create, modify and share images, presentations, audio tracks, podcasts & more. Classrooms can collaborate on multimedia projects. Works directly in Google Docs.<\/p>\n

Gooru<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is a search engine for learning. Discover millions of standards-aligned STEM resources, including videos, games, textbooks and quizzes, for 5th-12th grade topics.<\/p>\n

iRubric<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 \u00a0is an interactive assessment system enabling teachers to save time on building and sharing rubrics. Optional upgrade allows quick scoring and automatic entry into RCampus Gradebook.<\/p>\n

Grockit<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is a social platform for learning that provides students with collaborative real-time study rooms and content aligned to K 7-12 curriculum and college entrance exams.<\/p>\n

DreamBox<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 yes no more elusive URLs for DreamBox \u2013\u00a0With DreamBox Learning Connect, a free Google AppsTM tool, teachers don\u2019t need to input individual passwords, streamlining logins for DreamBox Learning K-3 Math, an online adaptive learning program<\/p>\n

Backchannel Chat for Google Apps<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A realtime discussion tool with powerful moderation features that have been designed for educators. Easily bring your Google apps students into our discussion tool and have safe secured discussions.<\/p>\n

Docs Detective<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Plagiarism Detection service for Google Docs,\u00a0 Compare document with millions of documents,\u00a0 Makes reviewing results quick and easy,\u00a0 Great for schools that use Google Docs<\/p>\n

Teacher Dashboard for Google Apps<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Teacher Dashboard gives you a bird\u2019s-eye view of class activity across Docs, Sites, Blogger, Picasa & Gmail, and greatly simplifies setup and maintenance of your class Google Apps environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Apps it\u2019s more then just Google Docs with a catchy slogan. \u00a0It\u2019s real power is in the\u00a0App Marketplace. \u00a0There are 90 apps just listed under the EDU category alone and most of them are free. \u00a0Just click on the App Marketplace link or search google for App Marketplace and you will get to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}