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=What are Google Applications?  Google applications are web applications (often called web apps) accessed with a web browser over the Internet. Many Google Apps provide teachers and students communication, productivity and collaboration tools that are free to use with a registered Google Account. Using Google Docs for example, anyone can access their account, create a document and save their work directly online from any Internet ready computer in the world. This frees up individuals from having to save, retrieve and share information from a computer specific hard drive and saves schools the cost and management of maintaining site-based data servers. At [|Google for Educators] you can discover how teachers all over the world are using Google apps across the K-12 curriculum. = = = =Google DOCS=

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Student use of google docs
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Google Docs in Plain English - Commoncraft video
) Download a [|step-by-step tutorial] [pdf] for Google Docs. 2) Learn about the comments and [|revision features of Google Docs] [pdf].

3) Download, print, and share the following articles [pdf] with your students: 4) Download our //[|Educators Guide: Teaching Revision with Google Docs]//
 * With a Little Help From My Friends: The Gifts of a Writing Buddy
 * Writing's Top 10 Tips for Revision
 * [|Collaborative Revision Checklist]
 * Individual Revision Checklist

After reviewing our activity ideas and Google Docs tutorials, you may develop your own lesson plans and ideas. We want to hear from you! We invite you to share your curriculum ideas with the Google Educators community through our [|Google for Educators Discussion Group].