Google Educast Show #11 – The Lightning Round!
On this episode of the Google Educast we welcome Google Certified Teachers Chris Atkinson and Fred Delventhal. In Headlines we’ll talk This Week In Google In this week’s Ask A GCT we answer the question “Can you easily add events to Google Calendar by email or some other way? ”. Finally today in Tips And Tricks we’re going for a lightning round of a record 8 Google tools that you soon won’t be able to live without.
Show Notes:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/pagination-comes-to-google-docs.htmlGoogle Adds Reading Levels to Sidebar
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/04/reading-levels-in-googles-sidebar.html
Google Chooses Its Fiber-Networked City Of The Future: Kansas City
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/30/google-chooses-its-fiber-networked-city-of-the-future-kansas-city/
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office Updated
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/03/38-more-languages-and-minimize-toolbar.html
Ask a GCT – Can you easily add events to Google Calendar by email or some other way? (Fred)
We know about Quick Add when you’re looking at your Google Calendar
- Gmail Labs Google Calendar gadget
- Gmail add an event from info in an email
- Google Calendar Sync or other third party calendar http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
- via Twitter http://twittercal.com Currently not working
- via email using EventBot http://www.myeventbot.com/
- via SMS message
- http://youcanbook.me/
- Google Notifier
- Chrome Extension (Chris)
Tips and Tricks
Google Talk Guru
http://guru.googlelabs.com/
Kathy Schrock’s Clickable Google/Bloom’s Mashup
http://kathyschrock.net/googleblooms/
Safety Net for Google Sites
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/04/accidentally-delete-site-owners-can-now.html
Making Google Ebooks social
http://www.readum.com/
Custom Image Background in Gmail
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/custom-background-image-themes.html
Gmail Dynamic Themes
http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/gmail_themes/
All of your Google info in one place – including Social Search/+1
https://www.google.com/dashboard
A Google A Day
http://agoogleaday.com/
Google Copyright School
http://www.youtube.com/copyright_school




