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Alma Technologies, Inc., and Google Classroom today announced the integration between the free classroom toolset for teachers and a Student Information System (SIS).

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is working with Google to index millions of documents in Google Scholar and expanding the amount of content indexed by major library discovery services.

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Fortune Magazine posts a piece this morning declaring the Chromebook to be the new King of the classroom as sales of the inexpensive laptops reaches past 7 million units

Google Classroomis Google's learning management system, allowing teachers and students to share assignments and communicate online.

The trick is that you embed a timer that has been turned into a YouTube video.

It's easy to use, you can save your maps to Google Drive or Dropbox, you can use Rich Text, import images and export your files and even embed your map in a site.

Google Hangouts on Air let you conduct a video conference with up to ten people that is live streamed and taped for later viewing.

The interactive training is designed to help Google Apps administrators at educational organizations make the most of Google Apps.