The document discusses how Google Apps can benefit schools and education. It provides links to videos that explain how Google Apps works and its education features. Some of the benefits mentioned are that Google Apps is free, easy to deploy, saves schools money by outsourcing maintenance to Google, and allows for collaboration globally on documents in real-time. The document also provides resources for training and certification for using Google Apps in education.

1. Why Go Google? Karen Brooks 10/13/11

3. Who’s Gone Google

4. The Google Trend in NY

5. Some Schools !

6. Google Apps for Education http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/#utm_campaign=gogoogle&utm_medium=et&utm_source=en-et-na-us-gogoogle

7. Google APPS K-12

8. Watershed School Talks about Google Apps (3:38)

9. Why Google Apps for Education? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRYRbPCHTck&feature=related (10:38)

10. How Google Apps Work in a Cloud Computing World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doHnLiAzQ5M&feature=related

11. Webinar Sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AI1CNpa0rU&feature=relmfu Start at 1:00 – 58 Minutes

12. Grade Books and Grading with Google Apps Webinar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GteusGXf43I&feature=relmfu

13. Recap http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/k12.html

14. Google APPS and NYSED http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/k12.html (4:06)

15. NYS School Case Studies Clarkstown Central School District New York City Intermediate School 339

16. Google Apps YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleApps

17. Google Professional Development

18. K-12 East User Group http:// k12east.appsusersgroup.com/ May take up to 2 weeks to get access

19. http://k12east.appsusersgroup.com/k-12-apps-regional-groups

20. Top 10 Reasons to go Google! http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/sell.html Students will love you for it; Schools tells us that when they ask their students what email they'd prefer, they overwhelmingly say Gmail. Free up your IT Easy to deploy; No software to install, no hardware to buy, just validate your MX records and create your accounts to get started. Save money; Outsourcing the maintenance of servers to Google frees up resources that would have been spent on additional licenses and upgrades. You're not alone; Your school is not alone. Google protects your privacy ; More specifically, read our FAQ on privacy , visit our Privacy Center , and review how we've handled challenges to users' privacy in Security as powerful as... well, Google; Same as company is ran on. Innovation in real-time; prepare your students for the newest technology in the workplace . Collaborate globally ; Google Docs, our word processing application, doesn't just give you access to the same document, it actually allow students to work on the same document at the same time from anywhere in the world. GOOGLE’s GOT YOUR BACK! Help Center , our education customer group , or directly through the phone and email contact information .

21. Guide to Going Google K-12 Edition https://sites.google.com/a/googleapps.com/k12-guide-to-going-google/

22. Google K12 Lesson Plan Data Base http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/lesson_plans.html

23. Get Certified?? http://google.starttest.com/

24. Google Apps for Education Training Center http://edutraining.googleapps.com/

25. Thank You Karen Brooks [email_address]