Google App's

There are so many ways that we as educators can use these applications in order to create an environment that will lead to our students doing better and our classrooms being much more organized.

Google Calendar for instance is great for keeping a schedule up and ready for you to stay organized.

Personally, I use iGoggle already and love the fact that it can keep us up to date on what is happening with the news and emails all right there in front of yourself. In the classroom you could put up podcast for the students to use as resources for homework and have them all signed into iGoogle on there own and that stuff will pop right up for them.

Picasa can be used greatly in the PE department. you could have pictures showing proper form so that when the students are practicing they can do so right at home and see what it should look like.

And Knol is a way that the students can get their own thoughts out there. It is great for students to realize that they can teach others. As a basketball coach I always end up teaching my athletes the way to teach others because as soon as they can teach others the better they will be at that skill and the more knowledge they will have.

-JP-