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= Ideas on how to use Google Reader in the Classroom =
 * Table of Contents and Indexes.
 * Find one important piece of information (even from a limited-preview page) to incorporate into research.
 * Teachers could spark student interest by previewing several book.
 * Teachers can use the ads in the magazines to study marketing.
 * The entire class can have access to the same issue of a magazine, virtually impossible to do otherwise.
 * Teachers could encourage students to create a personal library of books and share comments and stories with other students (sort of like show and tell for books.)
 * Teachers can task students with finding multiple books on a particular subject and task them with doing a book review of one or all books.
 * Compare and contrast magazine ads to those of today.
 * Class-wide book reports/school-wide required summer reading could be assigned without the school needing to own enough hard copies for every student or parents needing to purchase every book.

= Ideas on how to use Google Calendar in the Classroom =


 * Put all the student assignments and other events on the calendar
 * Send automatic text message about upcoming tests and other important classroom events to students and parents
 * Communicate with parent
 * Have all the teacher and administrators use the google calendar for scheduling staff meetings and sharing school events
 * Use Google calendar to keep parents informed about special events going on in school.
 * Allow one student at the beginning of every week to add to the calendar and modify what is being taught that week in the class
 * Create a list of tasks for the month so the students know what will be done and feel accomplished when they check items off the list
 * Students and teachers may use Google Calendar for scheduling, homework and notifications. Groups can add their calendars together to see when time is available

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= Ideas on how to use Google Docs in the Classroom =
 * Students can collaborate on projects from home, working with partners or small groups.
 * Consider a jigsaw where each student researches part of a chapter, then creates a collaborative presentation to summarize the reading.
 * Write a "blook"- each person writes a chapter of a mini book or chapters of a story and they can use a writing buddy for feedback.
 * Write a "bilingual book"with a person who knows a second language.
 * Have students to turn in essays using Google Docs, so it's faster, facilitates teacher comments, and helps monitor students progress.
 * Have faculty colleagues contribute to one collaborative document so that everyone has an input.
 * Administration, teachers, and parents will cut down on countless emails while communicating about students and their work.
 * Have the teachers in your grade level contribute to a document about cutting across the curriculum for a grade-wide project that involves all subject areas.
 * Have the parents communicate their thoughts/concerns/questions with other parents that have students in your classroom\
 * Collaboration between the students and the teachers will take place. Students will be able to go back and revise their work and keep track of their progress.
 * Teachers and students can share their link to the published presentation and invite others' into the chatroom and the others can be in the room or anywhere in the world. Suddenly, presentations can be interactive and can create a permeable classroom by allowing experts and peers into the room - and allowing students' thoughts out into the world.
 * Buddy Book Reports from students consist of multiple students read the same book and collaborate on their final book report in an online document
 * Writing assignment: For younger students type a page of complete sentences and sentences that are not complete for the children. Have each student correct the sentence if it is wrong and create a new sentence.
 * Send Important handbooks to parents such as rules and code of conduct.
 * Students can share notes with each other.
 * Students can go paperless and write notes from lectures to their virtual notebook using google docs.
 * Share reflections of a field trip.
 * Create a story from a story prompt.
 * Recreate an historical event.
 * Develop a math word problem.
 * Create articles for the school newspaper.
 * Write a script for a play.

Ideas on how to use Google Sites in the Classroom

 * Students can all create a page and link it to whole class web page.
 * Students could write a blog about what happens everyday on the class website.
 * A student job could be to take a digital image from some point in the day to upload to the website then write a comment about it as well.
 * Students can create a homework help page for a discussion room.
 * Parents can view from any location, to submit homework, do quizzes or tests, and class work missed, due to absence.
 * Teachers can use this tool to easily develop and update a class web site to use as a regular communication tool between the classroom and homes of students.
 * A Google blog can be linked to the class web site to be used by students, teachers, and parents to share thoughts about the learning that is occurring in the classroom.
 * Students can become collaborators and work to develop a class site to organize learning products relating to content from across the curriculum. These can be shared with parents to let them in on the learning that is occurring in the classroom.

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