Android 4 Schools

A couple of weeks ago Google added a goal setting feature in Google Calendar that helps you identify times to work on personal goals like exercising or reading for pleasure. Today, Google put some of that same technology into a new Google Calendar for Android feature that helps you identify meeting times with colleagues. The […]

Google Calendar in your web browser has long supported attaching Google Drive files to your calendar events. Now you can do the same thing through the Google Calendar for Android app. The latest update to the Google Calendar for Android app supports attaching Google Drive files to your Calendar events. When you attach a Drive […]

Cross-posted from my other blog, FreeTech4Teachers.com The Android apps for Google Slides, Docs, and Spreadsheets recently received updates. The Slides app now supports supports inserting, moving, resizing, and rotating text boxes, shapes, and lines. The Docs app now allows you to customize line spacing just as in the web version of Google Docs. The Spreadsheets app […]

While I was busy leading a day of learning about iPad apps at Bridgton Academy  Google announced a new service that could make Android tablets a stronger challenger to iPads in education. Google Play for Education (not live yet) promises the features that many of us have wanted for a long time. Google Play for […]

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking to teachers in the Rockingham, NC school district about Google apps. The school assigned a young lady (Jordan is her name) from the student council to be my assistant for the day. We were both in the room about an hour before my presentation was scheduled […]