Google Apps for Education

Google has been offering schools a really interesting deal where they can get Chromebooks for relatively cheap and google will keep them updated with all of their available educational tools and all their security protocols for a little bit now. These did always interest me, but they are just coming out with something that seems to be blowing my mind right now, which is simply called “Classroom.” And best of all, it’s free! Classroom “weaves” together Google Docs (their online collaboration “Office” editors), Google Drive (online storage options), and Gmail (webmail services) to help teachers create and organize their assignments, quizzes, notes, and tests efficiently. Students can receive their work on the interface and hand in all assignments through there, which means less random pieces of paper floating around (English teachers, I’m looking at you!). Teachers can also comment, mark up and grade their assignments all within the interface. Check it out!