Google For Education sur Twitter : "Here's how adding teachers to your class in #GoogleClassroom works: New ways to work together in Classroom. Posted by Hugh Lynch, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google for Work Blog.) We built Classroom to help teachers spend less time on paperwork, and more time with their students. Since we launched, we’ve also heard from teachers and professors that they’d love to be able to use Classroom to collaborate with other educators. Teach together: Whether it’s a substitute, a teacher’s aide or a department chair, almost every teacher and professor is supported by other educators.
So starting today, you can have multiple teachers in a Classroom class. Dani Raskin, a special education teacher at Clarkstown High School South in New York, has been helping us test out this new feature. Prep for your classes in advance: We know how much planning goes into every class you teach, and now we’re making it a little bit easier to do some of that planning in Classroom. Why use Google Apps For Education? Google Apps for Education (GAFE) is, in my view, a serious contender to be the solid foundation underpinning any school’s use of technology. Whilst nothing is ever ‘free’ in education, GAFE comes pretty close from a user perspective. Google bill the product as ‘free Web-based email, calendar & documents for collaborative study anytime, anywhere.’ With unlimited free storage given to each user, it is difficult to argue. They do impose a limit of 5Tb on individual file size. For reference, that’s a 600-hour long video file, so you’ll probably be able to squeeze under that ceiling.
Google’s commercial model is based on advertising, but no advertisement or user data collection take place within GAFE, following recent court cases in the US. The component to concentrate on, from a learning point of view, is Google Drive which is a user’s online storage, integrated into the Google Calendar and Mail. The collaborative folder in Drive can also work as a class resource sharing area.
Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop. Classroom. Google reports sales and profits jump. 20 July 2012Last updated at 05:19 ET In the past three months the internet giant bought Motorola Mobility and launched its Nexus 7 computer Internet giant Google has reported a jump in sales and profits for the three months to the end of June in its first results statement since taking over Motorola Mobility Holdings (MMH). Net income for the quarter was $2.79bn (£1.77bn), up 11% compared to $2.51bn a year earlier.
Google said revenue rose 35% to $12.21bn for the period after a $1.25bn boost following the acquisition of MMH. Revenue at its core internet business rose 21%. Shares in Google rose about 3% in after-hours trading following the results. As well as generating money through advertising based on searches, Google also makes the popular Android mobile phone operating system. During the period, the company also launched its Nexus 7 tablet computer. The company's chief executive, Larry Page, said the Nexus had received "rave reviews". Schools cannot solve all of society's problems, says minister. Teachers are expected to solve too many of society's problems, the schools minister Nick Gibb has said.
In a speech to the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), Gibb criticised lobby groups for saying schools could help tackle a growing number of issues. He said children were now more aggressive and more likely to grow up in "fragmented families" without boundaries, but the answer was not to "fill the school curriculum with all the social issues that pressure groups want us to put [in the school day]". "It seems that the first answer of many to almost any problem in society is to give a duty to schools to tackle it, be it obesity, teenage pregnancy or knife crime," he said. "It feels like every other week I am presented with proposals from one well-meaning group or another to add something 'socially desirable' to the curriculum. " Gibb said one lobby group had asked him to make pilates compulsory for pupils. Google+