OIT is partnering with Google to launch “Google Apps at UMass Amherst,” a customized version of Google’s popular suite of online productivity and collaboration tools, including Gmail, designed especially for educational institutions. Beginning in late summer, the university’s 19,000 undergraduates will be able to sign up for a Google Apps account, choose to have their…
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Tracking Visitors to your Blog with Google Analyitcs
If you’ve set up a UMass Blog to document your research or teaching, you might be interested to know who your visitors are. The days of the simple hit counter are gone, replaced with Google Analytics, a Google tool that tracks a wealth of data about where your visitors are coming from, which sections of your blog they are reading, and…
Web 2.0 Wednesday #3: Collaborating with Google Groups and Google Documents
Google provides a variety of web based tools such as email (GMail), online mapping (Google Maps), and video sharing (YouTube), but two lesser known tools are Google Groups and Google Docs which may be of particular interest to instructors looking for more ways to collaborate with students and colleagues via the web.
Next “Emerging Technology and Pie” Event: Using Google Groups with Students
Our second Emerging Technology and Pie event of the semester will be Thursday April 3rd, 1:15-2:15. The topic for the event will be using Google Groups with students, our guest speaker is Ruth-Ellen Verock-O’Loughlin from the School of Education. Google Groups is a free Web-based discussion tool by Google where students can have discussions about…
Google Announces New Tools, Programs
Google has been busy lately releasing tools and programs that we thought might be of use to instructors at UMass. We’ve listed three of these below, but more of Google’s new products (most are prototypes) can be found by visiting Google Labs. Google Docs (now for presentations) Google’s answer to PowerPoint has arrived. Google recently…