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15 Amazingly Useful Google Services You Should Know About

15 Amazingly Useful Google Services You Should Know About
As one of the most innovative tech companies in the world, Google have a very special place in my heart. They’ve created a huge number of products and services that make all of our lives easier, beginning with their famous web search engine. Everyone’s heard of Gmail and Google Maps, but it may surprise you to find out just how many Google services exist that you probably don’t know about. As the co-founder of a busy tech company with offices across the globe, I think anything that increases productivity – and reduces frustration – is worth talking about. Google Scholar A personal favorite of mine, Google Scholar is a great way to keep up to date with academic research and progress in science and technology. Google Keep This Google service is light on features, but great for keeping you super organized and on top of things. Google Inbox Trendalyzer Also known as Gapminder, this Google service helps you easily put together interactive bubble charts that animate your statistics. Google Sites Related:  COMPETENCIA DIGITAL (áreas)

Technology in the Classroom: A Look at Google Classroom Google has already made a large impact on education with its Google Apps for Education (GAFE), which includes Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Calendars, and a diverse array of other apps easily utilized by schools. Now Google is introducing Google Classroom, a technology in the classroom app designed to provide a single dashboard to unify instructors’ use of other Google apps. Google has announced that as of this week, all GAFE teachers will have immediate access to the Google Classroom. Those who are not GAFE educators can still apply for a preview. Google Classroom’s purpose is to facilitate paperless communication between teachers and students and streamline educational workflow. One of the best features is that Classroom is fully integrated with all other Google apps, so students and teachers can share information with one another instantaneously instead of having to hop through various hurdles to submit work. Our exciting summer break learning ideas. How It Compares

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Next Big Future: Google Deep Mind is taking Artificial Intelligence to a new level and hope to accelerate scientific progress and truly useful robotics Demis Hassabis leads what is now called Google DeepMind. It is still headquartered in London and still has “solve intelligence” as its mission statement. Roughly 75 people strong at the time it joined Google, Hassabis has said he aimed to hire around 50 more. Around 75 percent of the group works on fundamental research. Over the next five years, DeepMind’s technology could be used to refine YouTube’s recommendations or improve the company’s mobile voice search. They dream of creating “AI scientists” that could do things like generate and test new hypotheses about disease in the lab. DeepMind has combined deep learning with a technique called reinforcement learning, which is inspired by the work of animal psychologists such as B.F. In 2013, DeepMind researchers showed off software that had learned to play three classic Atari games - Pong, Breakout and Enduro - better than an expert human. No one had ever demonstrated software that could learn to master such a complex task from scratch.

Ten Minutes of Connecting: Day 20 – How Leaders Use Google Drive for Collaboration Today we are building on some of the learning you have been doing in this series. We have focused on a number of tools to help you connect. We hope that you are continuing to set aside 10 minutes each day to connect through one of those tools, or to learn something new with us. This series will continue to exist on our website even after November 30. You can work through it at a pace that suits you. If you find it helpful, please spread it to your colleagues. Connecting drives innovative thinking! Yesterday we looked at how to access and build your Google Drive so that you can share your documents, images, spreadsheets, presentations and resources with others. How are school and system leaders around the world leveraging this method of collaboration? Take ten minutes today to explore some of the possibilities that will help you to transform the way you do your work and model the learning for those in your sphere of influence. Let other leaders see the power of collaborating online!

7 of the Best New Add Ons for Google Docs and Sheets Yesterday the Google Drive team announced one of the biggest updates to Docs and Sheets that we’ve seen in a long time. The new Add-ons feature for Docs and Sheets makes it really easy to bring some advanced functionality, or just some missing features, to your most important Drive files. With this new Add-ons feature comes a brand new marketplace with dozens of options to choose from. We suggest playing around some of them to see which ones fit your specific needs, but there are a few that we really like already. 1. Before Add-ons were introduced, creating a mail-merge required some knowledge of apps script as well as a lot of patience when putting together all the materials. 2. Collaboration is already one of the most powerful tools in Google Docs, but asking for (or receiving) approval for changes can really only be addressed with a workaround by using comments. 3. 4. A lot of people have issues when making their data in a Google Spreadsheet work together with a Google Doc. 5. 6. 7.

6 outils gratuits en ligne pour créer une timeline La timeline, ou ligne de temps, est parfaite pour présenter en ligne votre parcours professionnel, l’histoire d’une entreprise, le déroulement d’un événement, etc. Editoile vous propose 6 outils gratuits en ligne pour créer une timeline sur votre site ou blog ! Et on vous explique comment les choisir pour faire une frise chronologique interactive. Si je vous dis « frise chronologique », vous allez certainement vous rappeler du devoir donné par votre professeur d’histoire en 5e qui vous demandait de retracer de manière synthétique l’existence de Vercingétorix… Si vos crayons de couleur, compas et autre rapporteur ont disparu depuis bien longtemps, il n’en va pas de même pour cette bonne vieille chronologie. Besoin de rédacteurs SEO ? Refonte éditoriale, articles de blog, etc. Tout bon rédacteur web doit en effet savoir mettre en scène l’information et l’intégrer facilement sur son site web en utilisant des services externes qui lui permettent d’embarquer du code html dans ses pages. 1. 2.

The Gooru's Top 10 of 2014 We’ve spent the past few weeks analyzing every part of The Gooru website, learning more and more about what content you love so we can continue to bring it to you in 2015! We have a lot of very exciting things in store for you in the next year, but now is the time where we take a moment to look back on 2014. As we created this list, we realized the topics were extremely diverse with helpful information for nearly every type of Google Apps user. So, take a look at the list and let us know your favorite post of 2014 and don’t forget to take a look at 2014’s Cloud Adoption Trends! 1. How to attach an email (to another email) in Gmail Have you ever referenced a past email while writing a Gmail message? 2. We mention this whenever possible, but we always recommend archiving messages in Gmail rather than deleting them. 3. 7 Best Add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets Add-ons were some of the biggest updates to come to Google Drive throughout all of 2014. 4. 6. 26 tips for teaching with Google Apps

13 Google Forms Tutorial Videos Last week the new version of Google Forms became the default version in many Google Accounts. But, as many people have pointed out to me, not all Google Accounts have made the transition. This is particularly true in Google Apps for Education accounts. In my new Google Forms tutorials playlist you will find videos demonstrating how to customize both the old and new versions of Google Forms, how to install Add-ons in both versions, and you will find tutorials on some of my favorite Google Forms Add-ons.

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