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Welcome to the Apps User Group website.  Our purpose is to connect and assist schools in the use of Google Apps for Education.  The site contains resources for implementing and using Google Apps, news from the Google blogs, links to schools that use Google Apps, a discussion forum, and more. All uses are encouraged to share resources, ideas, questions, and comments.


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  • What's a Chrome Extension? With the recent launch of our new Web App Reviews site at www.WebAppReviews.org we are doing some cross-posting of material from that site. Below is one of ...
    Posted Mar 26, 2013, 7:17 PM by Eric Curts
  • What's a Web App? With the recent launch of our new Web App Reviews site at www.WebAppReviews.org we are doing some cross-posting of material from that site. Below is one of ...
    Posted Mar 26, 2013, 7:18 PM by Eric Curts
  • Introducing "Web App Reviews" Today’s schools are moving more and more towards cloud-based services. Instead of installing software on specific computers, schools are increasingly using web-based programs that run entirely in ...
    Posted Mar 24, 2013, 4:09 PM by Eric Curts
  • Video Training for Gmail Safety and Security for Schools A new training video and documents are now available for "Gmail Safety and Security for Schools".Google Apps gives you great control over staff and student email settings and permissions ...
    Posted Feb 18, 2013, 5:43 PM by Eric Curts
  • Power Up your Search (and your Brain) What is the difference between knowledge and intelligence? Certainly both are important and are interrelated, but they are also fundamentally different. Knowledge is information. It’s facts. It’s state ...
    Posted Jan 15, 2013, 6:28 PM by Eric Curts
  • Why 2013 is the Year of the Chromebook Back in May of 2011 Google announced the general availability of Chromebooks. At that time they were still a new concept and people everywhere, including Google, were trying to figure ...
    Posted Jan 14, 2013, 6:06 AM by Eric Curts
  • The Big Blank Wall: Embracing EdTech Change Recently I had a chance to visit the classroom where I first began teaching some 20 odd years ago.  The building has not been a school for many years, but ...
    Posted Jan 2, 2013, 9:04 PM by Eric Curts
  • Appointment Slot Alternatives Back in mid-December, Google announced that they would be discontinuing several services and features including Appointment Slots for Google Calendar (link). According to the post, users would no longer ...
    Posted Dec 31, 2012, 11:58 AM by Eric Curts
  • Vault: Gmail’s Spare Tire Spare tires are a necessary evil. They are something you pay good money for, in the hopes that you never actually have to use them. You purchase one, hide it ...
    Posted Dec 29, 2012, 3:10 PM by Eric Curts
  • Why Chrome is like an HDTV (and IE8 isn’t) Web browsers are a lot like television sets. First, they are both tools used to view content.  A TV set is a way to watch shows, just like a web ...
    Posted Dec 27, 2012, 7:32 AM by Eric Curts
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