Google Applications

Google Apps

You and your students can use various free Google applications to create online presentations, easily create webpages, and browse our globe with satellite imagery and maps. You or your students can use their online word processor and spreadsheet to create files, have them stored at Google, and retrieve and edit them from any computer with an internet connection.

Get more out of Google! is an online presentation, created in Google Docs, showing some of the nifty ways you can use Google in the classroom.

Good grief! Google does it all! has quick links to oodles of Google applications by Dedra Stafford & Kathy Blackwell. Below are some outstanding online Google apps:

  • Get a Google account...
    For many of the applications, you need a Google account. Use www.google.com/accounts/Login to login to an existing account or to create a new one. For some apps, you may need a Google Mail account - see gmail.google.com

  • Online Word Processor, Presentations, & Spreadsheets at Google Docs
    With Google Docs your students can create word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet files online and then retrieve them at home or at school for editing and printing. Files can be saved in Word, Adobe PDF, and other formats on a local drive as well. You can publish a document so that it can be viewed anywhere on the internet with its own unique address. A document author can even invite others to help edit it with the Collaborate feature - the science department uses this to create and maintain its collaborative curriculum maps. Try out Google Docs at docs.google.com

  • Easily Create Webpages with Google Sites
    Want to create your own webpage or have students make one, but don't know the first thing about it? No problem - just use Google Sites at sites.google.com to quickly drag-and-drop items into a template and presto - you've got a website that you can easily edit to your heart's content.

  • Explore Our World at Google Earth
    Americans are notoriously geographically challenged, but Google Earth puts the globe at your fingertips. You can search and zoom in on almost any location on the planet. Heck, you can even view portions of the ocean floor, look out into space, and explore Mars. Download the software at earth.google.com