Google Apps for Education - Educause 2011
EduCause 2011 attracted over thousands of higher education IT leaders
The annual gathering of the higher-education IT community, EDUCAUSE 2011, attracted over thousands of higher education IT leaders. The conference included a booth with 30+ Googlers and a woodsy backdrop
for the fireside chat series; meeting with hundreds of CIOs from
universities using and considering Google Apps for Education; a party at the Academy of Natural Sciences; and liberty and the lifelong pursuit of the Philly cheesesteak.
Here are some of the new integrations to Apps that Google announced:
- OpenClass: Pearson has developed a free cloud-based Learning Management System that is tightly integrated with Google Apps and provides a new kind of learning environment that stimulates social learning. This is available in the Apps Marketplace.
- SlideRocket EDU: This presentation software integrated for cloud-based collaborative education enables you to unleash the creation, sharing and communication of ideas with an online application that connects with content in Google Apps for Education and is available on any device or browser. This is available in the Apps Marketplace.
- Blackboard Bboogle: Last year, Northwestern University presented their popular Bboogle (Blackboard + Google) application at our EDUCAUSE booth. Bboogle has now been certified by Blackboard and is available to other universities as a Building Block through Blackboard’s Extensions website. Bboogle enables instructors to link Blackboard course sites directly to Google Docs, Calendars and Sites without requiring a second login. And by automatically setting permissions for editing, it helps encourage and facilitate collaborative instruction.
- Desire2Learn: Users will soon be able to add widgets to Course Homepages that make it easy to view unread email messages in Gmail, keep track of upcoming events in Calendar, and submit assignments created in Docs.
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