Teacher's helper

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Cristin Frodella, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Create picture collages of famous Americans with <a href="http://picasa.google.com">Picasa</a>. Find out what Virginia newspapers had to say about the Civil War in 1862 with <a href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch">Google News Archive Search</a>. Check out the pyramids in Egypt with <a href="http://earth.google.com">Google Earth</a>, and then build your own with <a href="http://www.sketchup.com/">SketchUp</a>.<br /><br />We’ve been hearing about some pretty cool assignments from classrooms across the U.S. where teachers at all grade levels are using Google products to bring history lessons to life, illuminate new sources of information, and encourage sharing and collaboration. What we’ve also heard loud and clear is that teachers want more information about using Google products, and more connections to other educators who are using the web creatively. This is why we’ve launched a set of resources for K-12 educators today at the new <a href="http://www.google.com/educators">Google for Educators</a> site. Here you'll find teachers’ guides for 12 Google products, including basic information about each, examples of how educators are using them, plus lesson ideas. We’re also offering some additional multimedia content, including lesson plans and videos from Discovery Education that use <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html">Google Earth</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_sketchup_discovery.html">SketchUp</a>, and a series of podcasts at <a href="http://www.infinitethinking.org/">Infinite Thinking Machine </a> on innovative ways to use the web in the classroom.<br /><br />So please, teachers, students, and parents -- check it out and <a href="mailto:educators-feedback@google.com">let us know what you think</a>. And remember, we've made it impossible to forget your homework when it’s saved safely on <a href="http://docs.google.com">Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a>.

Teacher's helper

Posted by Cristin Frodella, Product Marketing Manager Create picture collages of famous Americans with Picasa . Find out what Virginia newsp...

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Better together: Docs & Spreadsheets

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jen Mazzon, Senior Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Did you ever notice that some things are just better together? For example, vanilla ice cream: on its own, it's good, but throw some strawberries or chocolate jimmies on it and all of a sudden you've got something truly tasty. I've noticed this combo superiority effect quite a lot lately because, well, I'm pregnant with twins (there's a bit more on our <a href="http://google-d-s.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-beginnings.html">official D&S blog</a>.)<br /><br />This idea of superior combos is also how I think of the new Google beta service that we've just launched. We took Writely, the Web word processor, and integrated it with Google Spreadsheets. The result is <a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a> -- one place where you can create, store, share and publish your documents and spreadsheets online. (Bookmark this: <span style="font-weight: bold;">docs.google.com</span>.) Keeping your documents and spreadsheets online is a treat because you can access them from anywhere via a Web browser. You can also get feedback and contributions from others you invite without having to email around copies of files, because the current version is always online.<br /><br />Get a taste of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets combo with our <a href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html">mini tour</a>. Really, though, the best way to get a flavor is to <a href="http://docs.google.com/">sample it</a> for yourself. Anyone can use it -- after you log in just click on the links for<span style="font-style: italic;"> New Document</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">New Spreadsheet</span>, or <span style="font-style: italic;">Upload</span>(lets you upload your desktop files) to get going. Help yourself and let us know (via this <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocsSpreadsheets">new D&S Google Group</a>) what you think.

Better together: Docs & Spreadsheets

Posted by Jen Mazzon, Senior Product Marketing Manager Did you ever notice that some things are just better together? For example, vanilla i...

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Score one for the Sun Devils

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Kevin Gough, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />As Arizona State University (ASU) gears up to go against USC this weekend, they've already scored a touchdown on campus this week. Today ASU announced that it's making <a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu">Google Apps for Education</a> available to all of its 65,000 students. Our free hosted email, IM and calendar offering should be a boon for students who need to collaborate on the latest Econ assignment (or plan their tailgate before the game). ASU went for a two-point conversion by using our APIs to integrate Google Apps with their single sign-on system (students only have to log on once to access all their school-related applications and student records system), so that admins can give students an @asu.edu email account when they register for classes. In all, it took ASU less than two weeks from decision to full-scale deployment -- a truly inspired play.

Score one for the Sun Devils

Posted by Kevin Gough, Product Marketing Manager As Arizona State University (ASU) gears up to go against USC this weekend, they've alre...

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Greetings, Earthlings!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dave Cohen, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />On October 14th and 15th, the sleepy desert town of Moab, Utah wakes up to a buzz of excitement. It's not an alien landing and it's not killer bees. It's <a href="http://www.grannygear.com/Races/Moab/index.shtml">24 Hours of Moab</a>, a day-long mountain bike race starting at noon this coming Saturday and ending at noon on Sunday. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/Moab_course.2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/Moab_course.2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />And Google will be there! We're team Google Earthlings, five Googlers who love mountain biking. We're not pro riders. In fact, none of us have ever competed in a 24-hour race before, so we don't expect to win ... but we do expect to have a good time and make some noise about Google Earth and Blogger to more than 5,000 riders and spectators!<br /><br />Sound sweet? Head on over to our <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/">team blog</a> and check out our <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/riding-gap.html" target="_blank">ride reports</a>, <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/eating-dirt.html">rants</a>, and <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/irrationally-exuberant.html">musings</a>, as well as some demos of the <a title="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/10/adding-content-in-google-earth.html" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/10/adding-content-in-google-earth.html" target="_blank">really cool stuff</a> you can do with <a title="http://earth.google.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Earth</a>.<br /><br />Gonna be at the race? Swing by our Expo Tent where we'll have laptops running Google Earth so riders can upload their own GPS data and see their home trails in 3D. And, if we can manage to capture an internet signal way out in the middle of the desert, we'll have a couple laptops with Blogger as well, encouraging riders to post their pics, lap times, and ride reports to a team blog. Of course, it wouldn't be a Google event without fun schwag -- we'll be giving away water bottles, blinky pins (we'll be the brightest riders on the course!), T-shirts, and some SketchUp socks. After the race, we'll update the blog with pics and stories, so stay tuned, and see you at the race! <br /><br />P.S. This is not a fake post. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/MOAB_john-hop%200.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/MOAB_john-hop%200.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Greetings, Earthlings!

Posted by Dave Cohen, Software Engineer On October 14th and 15th, the sleepy desert town of Moab, Utah wakes up to a buzz of excitement. It&...

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Inside Macs at Google

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager</span><br /><br />As a relatively new Mac user, I've found that I can't get enough of Mac stuff. I eagerly await Apple's next announcements, and scour the web for hints of what that could be. There are a lot of people who love Macs at Google, and we're really excited to contribute to the Mac OS X platform. I know how frustrating it is to not get a regular dose of Mac news or find the Mac application you want. So check out the <a title="http://googlemac.blogspot.com/ Google Mac Blog " onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://googlemac.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">new Google Mac Blog </a>to get all the news, tips, and insider stories about Macs at Google. Another site you might want to visit is <a title="http://www.google.com/mac.html www.google.com/mac" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.google.com/mac.html" target="_blank">www.google.com/mac</a>. Created by Ryan Brown, an engineer on the Mac team, this site showcases all of the Google applications for the Mac.

Inside Macs at Google

Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager As a relatively new Mac user, I've found that I can't get enough of Mac stuff. I eagerly a...

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About that fake post

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team</span><br /><br />A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we've discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. As for the click-to-call test, it is progressing on schedule, and we're pleased with the results thus far.

About that fake post

Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, cl...

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Our security stance

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Heather Adkins, Security Team</span><br /><br />Most readers of this blog are familiar with our <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/">mission</a> to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Maintaining the trust of our users and ensuring a positive experience using our products and services is paramount to our ability to accomplish our mission. As a result, Google takes security very seriously and designs all of its services and applications to protect your privacy and data security.<br /><br />Behind the scenes of these efforts is the Google Security Team. We keep the bad guys out of our systems and have brought you features like <a href="http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/answer.py?answer=35282&query=anti-phishing&topic=&type=">the anti-phishing extension</a> in Google Toolbar and <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/putting-stop-to-spyware.html">warnings about Internet malware</a>. As part of our commitment to security, we're putting up some additional help content to let users and security researchers know how to quickly contact us on these issues.<br /><br />We've learned that when security is done right, it's done as a community, and this includes everybody: the people who use Google services (thank you all!), the software developers who make our applications, and the external security enthusiasts who keep us on our toes. These combined efforts go a long way toward making the Internet safer and more secure.<br /><br />Please visit our <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html">new security page</a> and feel free to contact us anytime at security@google.com.

Our security stance

Posted by Heather Adkins, Security Team Most readers of this blog are familiar with our mission to organize the world's information and...

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