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"Apply for the Google for Nonprofits program and get access to exclusive products and resources to help your organization expand its impact."
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7 things you should know about... Google Apps
"Google Apps is a collection of web-based programs and file storage that run in a web browser, without requiring users to buy or install software. Users can simply log in to the service to access their files and the tools to manipulate them. The offerings include communication tools (Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar), productivity tools (Google Docs: text files, spreadsheets, and presentations), a customizable start page (iGoogle), and Google Sites (to develop web pages). The tools are free, or users can pay for a Premium Edition that adds more storage space and other features. Alternatively, an Education Edition includes most of the extras in the Premium Edition and is offered at no cost to K–12 and higher education. Google Apps allows institutions to use their own domain name with the service and to customize the interface to reflect the branding of that institution. In this way, a college or university can offer the functionality of Google Apps in a package (and with a URL) that is familiar and comfortable to constituents."
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Office 2010: Most Innovations Are Online | PCWorld
"It has taken Microsoft a long time to bring its flagship Office suite to the Web and now it finally has with Office 2010. The software suite comes packed with meaningful improvements such as new cut-and-paste features for Word and new ways to broadcast your PowerPoint presentations online. But the most striking addition to Office 2010 is the introduction of Office Web Apps. These are lightweight versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote that are all accessible via desktop, mobile devices, and Web browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari."
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Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs: A Web apps showdown - Computerworld
"The future may be the cloud, but it also may be Microsoft that ushers us into that realm of possibility and imagination. Today, Redmond unveiled as a part of Office 2010 a suite of Microsoft Office Web apps that will compete directly with Google Docs. While Microsoft isn't letting anyone play around with the apps just yet, on paper, Microsoft's Web apps look like they could blow Google's online services out of the water -- beta or no beta. Forget about the half measures of Office Live Workspace; Microsoft's new Web apps will let you create, edit and save documents right online. Here's a quick head-to-head between Google and Microsoft Web apps."
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Google Apps for Education: Case Studies and Customer Stories
"Imagine how valuable it would be if your entire campus community — students, faculty, and staff — could share information and ideas more easily. With Google Apps for Education, you can start bringing that vision to life. Organizations can focus more on what they do best, whether that's teaching kids, creating award-winning products, developing creative advertising campaigns or helping non-profits organizations. But don't take our word for it — organizations from around the world have shared their success stories with us, and we think they tell the story best."
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Case Studies | UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute
"In 2004, Kevin Souza at UCSF, began a three-year project to study how educational technology is organized in U.S. and Canadian medical schools. He worked with investigators at the University of Colorado and the University of Arkansas Health Science Center. During this three-year period, the investigators never physically met together in person but worked collaboratively to conduct a literature review, to develop and conduct a survey, to analyze the data and to write two papers, published in Academic Medicine. How did they do it? By using meeting and document collaboration tools such as GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, UCSF Library's Wiki, Google Docs, a blog and Refworks."
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Teaching Interactively with Google Docs
"Active learning has repeatedly been shown to be important to retention of what is taught in class. An important challenge is devising enough active-learning exercises to reinforce each important concept and prevent students from “tuning out” after the first fifteen minutes of class. Since many students nowadays carry laptops, we should look for ways to use them in active learning— rather than let them be a distraction during class. Using Google forms, students can give feedback on their laptops during class. Google docs can be used in a myriad of ways, such as for collecting answers to questions, submitting computer code, filling out tables and tableaus, or reporting on Web research done during class. It is quite easy to use Google docs in almost any class, providing the kind of interactivity that is missing from a traditional lecture."
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Google Apps for Education: K-12 Schools and Classrooms
"Google Apps' advanced collaboration and communication tools make it easy to help your students acquire the skills that will help them soar, in their education and out in the world. There's no hardware to maintain or software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools."
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Jiffle - Scheduling Made Simple
What is Jiffle? Jiffle is a web-based service that enables selective and secure sharing of your calendar to streamline the often-onerous process of scheduling meetings. How should I request an appointment or meeting? Select the desired time from the available timeslots and enter the requested meeting information.
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Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience. You can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.
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