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Google Tool
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Google Mail (gmail)
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Almost as standard as "Google" is for searching, this is a great place to email but also a necessity for many of the other Google features.
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Sign up for a gmail account
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Earn your Black Belt in Gmail email
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Google toolbar
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Installed at the top of your web browser, it gives you features such as fill in, or bookmarks that can be accessed from any computer. One button to news or weather. Good stuff.
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Install your Google Toolbar
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What can my Google Toobar do for me?
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 Googledocs
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Wow! This is the place to collaborate. You can store your documents here and share them if you like, or make them available to the public. Multiple people can edit and work on a document at once.Word document, spreadsheets, forms, presentations; pretty much whatever you need.
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Set up Google Docs
Google Doc Tips
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Tour of Google Docs
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Google Calendar
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This a calendar online that really works, it can sync with your phone to keep you mobile. And you can share with the people you choose.
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Set up Google Calendar
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What you can do with Google Calendar
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 iGoogle
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A fun easy to set up person desktop, widgets are easy to find and put in, themes are a snap.
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Begin your iGoogle desktop here
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iGoogle tour
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More Google Tools
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What it does
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 Picasa
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Picasa is a free photo editor. You can work with photos and store here. Not as much as Photoshop, but free.
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Download Picasa For MAC
Download Picasa for PC
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Video Tour of Picasa
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Blogger
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An easy place to start a blog (online journal or log) you simply register, pick a template, fill in some basic information and away you go. The hardest part is thinking of a name.
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Start your Blog here
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Video tour of Blogger
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Google Reader
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RSS is really simple syndication. If you want to follow the news or a technology or a book or to keep up with whats new in your field subscribe to an RSS Feed. The articles will come to you on a regular basis. Google Reader is a good reader among several readers, but it is in a very convenient location..
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Download and Set up Google Reader
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Tour of Google Reader
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What it does
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 Google Earth
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The world at your fingertips. Google Earth is a free download that allows you to virtually go nearly anywhere on the earth. Virtual field trips and tours or your own neighborhood.
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Download Google Earth
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All about Google Earth
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 Google Talk
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The chat feature of Google, send chat messages to anyone in their contact list. Great for collaberation. Will do video chat as well.
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Download and Set up Google Talk
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Tutorial of Google Talk
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Google SketchUp
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Create 3D models of anything; a new building or furniture a new room. The 7.0 version is free, the Pro has a cost. The free should work for most k-12 needs. The Pro version is free to teachers, but not students or entire schools.
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Download Google SketchUp
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Tutorial and Video of Google SketchUp
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 Google Voice
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This is a great feature of Google, you can have a phone number that dials in to your cell phone or any other phone. I have a Florida number that 1000 friends have, but got a Utah Google Voice number and now my local friends can call that and it will ring on my cell. Also has voice mail and it even attempts to turn it into text and email you the message.
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All about Google Voice, request an invitation
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Setting Up Google Voice
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