RPP #86: What Has Google Done? Free Google Voice for Students and more!




Rod's Pulse Podcast show

Summary: Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News YouTube - What Would Google Do? - blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by... Integrating Google Apps with Blackboard - digitalteacher from the Google Apps community shares 12 ways teachers integrate Google Apps with their Blackboard courses... Google Rolling Out Richer Web Apps - Google Docs can now handle large spreadsheets with performances that "feel like desktop applications"... GLADINET - Bringing the Cloud Closer to You -  drag and drop folders or an entire drive to quickly transfer thousands of files to Google Docs, Windows Live SkyDrive, or Amazon S3... Google SketchUp  - free software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like and also add them to Google Earth... YouTube Launches Auto-Captions For All Videos - speech recognition automatically transcribes what’s said in a video... Google Voice Service  - provides a phone number, free of charge. Inbound calls are forwarded to other phone numbers of the subscriber... Google Buzz - Twitter-like micro-blogging tools linked to your Gmail contacts... Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in Google Forms / Google Docs - ask a question, and route survey participants to different survey pages and questions based on their answers... The Google Apps Update Blog - you can subscribe to this feed to learn about the latest improvements to Google Apps Google Voice for Students! - late breaking news! All students get a free Google Voice phone number! Podsafe Music Selection Comcast Connection Blues by Derek K. Miller from Music Alley Duration:  16:37