The Goldmine That Is Google Apps

After setting up my two websites I went looking for a way to have e-mail accounts using my new domain names. The few sites that I found charge anywhere from $15/year to about $50/year, depending on the amount of storage and other various features you want (that’s is e-mail only BTW). I figured $15/year wasn’t that bad, and was about to do it when I came across Google Apps (standard edition). I cannot tell you how excited I am to share this gold mine of a find… Continue reading

Big Bad Browser Debate

Yesterday I noticed that Firefox had finally released the latest and greatest, 3.5.1. As I went to download it I noticed they were touting an extreme improvement in speed, over 2x faster than version 3. That started me down a whole road of thoughts.

Frequently I have students who want to challenge my technical knowledge and one of the few ways they try is with the web browser. Honestly up until yesterday I had never really sat down and analyzed the browsers and their actual speeds. I have… Continue reading

Google Voice Is Calling

Last year a friend told me about this neat application called Grand Central that gave you a centralized phone number which, when called, would ring to any phone number(s) that you wanted. When I heard about this I immediately went to sign-up. Unfortunately at that point Grand Central was defunct. However, Google had taken it over and there was a post stating it was coming soon and I could sign-up to be notified when it was ready. Of course I did. Now, a year later, Google Voice is finally… Continue reading

What The Heck Is That?

Today was funny (peculiar, not haha). Yesterday when I started thinking about posting my top Google tips I knew that I wanted today’s post to be about Google Reader (a tool I heavily rely on). Then today I was showing my site to my husband and three teachers. Each of them asked “what is that little thing in the coffee cup?” (BTW, a HUGE thank you to the maker of this theme, Edward Caissie for doing so much to make my cute little icon work!). My response was, “that’s how you can… Continue reading

Google Rules The World!

If you do a search for the phrase “Google Rules The World” you will come up with 2,010 hits on Google, and about the same number on Yahoo. My point is there’s lots of chatter about Google and their enormous suite of products (I don’t even know all of them). Then why is it that so few educators (that I know) use Google products? As I was talking with a friend the other day it occurred to me that many just don’t know about all Google has to offer. Continue reading