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Enhance your curriculum and launch a stress-free implementation of the Common Core's required technology components with Google's suite of free, easy-to-use educational tools. This book shows you how to design robust lessons that help students meet and exceed Common Core requirements to think critically, problem solve, research, collaborate, and create original documents to publish on the web.
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Graham, an instructional technologist for a middle school, shows elementary through postsecondary teachers how to use the free suite Google Apps for Education to design lessons that meet the technology integration components of the Common Core State Standards. He provides chapters that highlight specific standards and how the apps can be used to meet or exceed them, with classroom examples and student work. He presents step-by-step tutorials and screenshots for Gmail and Google Calendar, Docs (including, Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Form, and Drawing applications), Video, Drive, and Sites, in addition to brief information on Search, Chrome, Panaramio, Maps, and Scholar. A section of lesson plans concludes the book. A companion website features additional resources, links, and videos, as well as a database of lesson plans from readers and the Google Apps for Education community. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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