While I do love Google and Google Apps there can be things that are a bummer about the Google world. The slide show Google for Teachers mentioned using the Google Search Wonder Wheel. I loved the Wonder Wheel and I know a lot of school librarians would work it into their research lessons. But sadly Google got rid of the Wonder Wheel.
School librarians used to be able to teach students how to get to the advanced search setting while Google Searching with one click, not it takes two. Another bummer.
Our district uses Gmail and Google Apps for Education. This morning, seemingly random users could not access their Gmail. Of course this dispurpts our students' and staff's days. Last time this happened, I was able to find a useful site on Twitter:
http://www.google.com/appsstatus. This site lets me know if Google is having issues with their apps and are working on it.
Interesting that there is a site about whether Google apps are working. It makes you wonder about their reliability.
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