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Free upgrade Read&Write for Google Apps teachers, take it for a test drive! Samsung School plays with Google Edu and offers new tablets. Great tips on using Google Maps for research as well as Google Earth Tour Builder, a lightweight version of Google Earth. Find out what the fox says by checking out the new Chrome Experiment SpellUp.If you are in Michigan there are some great opportunities for Google Educator Bootcamps lead by fellow GCT John Sowash. Finally, Let me Google That For You comes to come to iPads with a nifty app!

This week on the Google EduCast we have a discussion on Google’s new tool, Classroom! More Chromebooks are coming your way and have you heard of the Google Bar? Learn how to add text to drawings, stretch your images in Draw, and special education teachers will be interested in the Read&Write and Speakit Chrome extensions. Our special guest Eric Curts shares some great resources and interactive uses for Google Slides.

Big blog post from Google this week addressing student privacy and completely disabling ads from Google Apps for Education. The finalists for the Google Doodle are out, so vote early and vote often. The gang talks about the beauty of separate apps for Docs, Sheets, and coming soon Slides! We talk about new updates to android’s camera app, mirroring to Chromecast and a brief review of the 2013 model of Nexus 7. Finally, we take a look at British archive videos.

You can't change text on an image. Or can you? We are still not sure but you can go back in time with Google Street View! Google updates privacy policy and makes it easy to navigate as well as hints at using stars across the web not just your inbox. Now you can get notifications when maps are updated as well as when a form is submitted. How to deal with the data from your leaving students - Google Takeout! Looking for the best Chromebook for students? We got you covered and Kelly shares how to get to primary sources from an original event.

Heartbleed has been in the news, even though Google patched early it is a good reminder to change your password and turn on two step authentication. Did you get #Glass on +Tuesday? Sean and Kevin share their experience with Glass. Add auto upload images right inside your Gmail - yes! Kelly joined the crew and shared some great tips on creating quick graphics using shortcuts as well as using Google tools to create a checkout system for school equipment. Lots of great apps for Chrome and Android as well!

Have you heard about the new Chromebook on the block? Dell enters the Chromebook game with a pretty rugged Chromebook packed with features and a longer battery life. Now is the time to start working on your application for the Google Teacher Academy.

Kim leads Sean, Fred, Chris and Kevin through Google’s April Fools tricks. Gmail tops their Shelfie’s announcement with shareable Gmail themes. Fred leads a discussion on docs security and promoting the value of two-step-authentication. Google and Donors Choose have joined up to help fund teacher programs.

Looking for 15 of the best Add On’s for education, look no further. You can also customize the app launcher as well as adding to your Play Music library through the browser , thank you Juan! In case you missed it Google released its transparency report +today along with a nifty video. In other breaking news you can edit images in Slides! Got a ChromeBook? Get the ZipExtractor extension. Chris has a datagasm in the new Google M.O.O.C. - Making Sense of Data.

On this week's show Kim, Fred, Juan and Chris discuss the wonderful world of add-ons, now available in Google Docs! Hear about 11 upcoming Google Teacher Academies around the world and application tips. Explore with Oppia, don’t forget your Chromebook goodies and connect with others on Google Plus by joining some of the great communities that are forming, including the new GEG groups…and maybe a mustachioed robot snuck into the conversation.

This week the Google Educast crew (well, most of them) took on SXSWedu! We sat down at the Google Lounge, and chatted with Jaime Casap, Lisa Jiang, and Devin Sandoz about the current awesomeness from Google Edu.

More fiber? Several cities say yes please to Google Fiber. The official end of life policy for Chrome OS devices was recently published, does that mean Chromeaggedon is coming? The new Google Maps is out for everyone, what do you think? There is a site for check out for adding Hangout apps and an old tool comes comes back - newspaper archive. Is that a scanner in your pocket? Why yes, I am using the Drive app! Fred brings back an old friend, Google Voice while Kevin shares the most recent update to MIT’s Android App Inventor 2.

Juan, Chris and Fred talk about two Google competitions for students; Doodle4Google and the Google Science Fair. VMware is teaming with Google to bring Windows applications to Chromebooks. Chris shares a great update to the new Google Sheets. The first screencasting app for Chromebooks has crossed the finish line, but is it the winner educators need? Juan shares a very nice drawing app for Chrome. All this and more in this week’s Educast.

This week we mix things up by beginning with the end and ending with the middle. Kim shares a new program that works with Google Apps allowing you to turn videos into lessons. Wilderness Classroom is going to connect with your classroom and take students on a dogsled run using Google Glass. The post Google Educast #132: Chromebook Yoga Down Dog Position appeared first on EdReach.

Chris, Fred and Juan talk about the latest news with Google including new, useful information on your search results pages, Google Education site gets a makeover as well as the Google Apps Certified Trainer rebranding and makeover. Take a look at visualizations of big data from dictionary words to cyber attacks to music. Juan shares a way help move your school from paper forms to digital. In addition, he shares a little known notification setting for spreadsheets. Juan was on fire with information as he also shared how to view revision history in Google Docs on mobile devices as well as a standardized testing solution using Chromebooks. The post Google Educast #131: Music To My Eyes appeared first on EdReach.

Chris and Fred take you through what’s new this week with Google including the activity panel in Google Drive, searching images for classroom use just got easier and a brand new eye-popping thing coming out of Google Project X. Using Google Chrome can now save you on your data plan as well the new Connectivity Diagnostic tool can help you find problems with your wifi and network connections. Lastly, we share two upcoming Connected Classroom field trips for you and your students. The post Google Educast #130: Easy Creative Commons Image Searching appeared first on EdReach.