Ben Daley, Chief Academic Officer and COO at High Tech High, has recently posted a lovely list of 24 Google products that have an application to the field of education. knew about the educational applications of some of these products already: YouTube ( 1 , 2 , 3 ), Google Scholar , Body Browser. Basically, it leverages the Google Earth platform to intertwine geography with reading novels. Check out this recent article in the National Post on the subject. Google Art Project. Do you have a favourite Google product that is a great fit with education? MORE >>

Are you using Google+ yet? It’s launching to the general public soon and after a few weeks of using Google+, Diane Elkins and Judy Unrein got together to share impressions. If I were to start over, I could see using Google+ over Facebook or Twitter. Even if Google+ does have its advantages, it is only useful if the people you want to connect with are there. JU: And soon Google+ will open up publicly, so a lot more people will be there. Everyone who uses Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, or any of their other services already has a Google account. MORE >>

In response to that article, a reader asked me if the images on these sites were royalty free and could be used in courses that he planned to sell. An alternative to this would be to use Google to hunt down images that specifically fit how you're going to use them. While most of the images you find by doing a normal Google image source are NOT okay to use, that doesn't mean all of them are off limits. Here's how to find something you can work with: From Google, click the Images tab at the top of the screen. by AJ George. "   eLearning MORE >>

Nicholas Carr wrote a terrific piece in The Atlantic back in 2008 (an eternity in internet time) asking if Google was making us stupid. He noted his own struggles focusing on reading books and lengthy articles in favor of skimming headlines and scanning blog posts for key points. The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid? Social Learning Facebook Google microsoft social learning talktechTopic 1: How might real life training exercises like Facebook’s “hackathon” be applied to other industries? image: softbinator.ro). Image: Steveearley.wordpress.com. MORE >>

This article recently appeared in a newspaper in Rio: I stuffed the text into Google Translate and pressed the button. And Google translates more than 60 languages back and forth!). Then I cleaned up obvious misreads and goofs. The result is readable but is a Frankenstein’s monster; the pieces don’t quite fit together: Work = Improvisational theater. Interview with Jay Cross. ? Workshops are considered a great opportunity to train teams. People who are no longer freshmen, he argues, should invest their time in eLearning and informal learning in social networks. MORE >>