Learn to teach with blogs

Think of Google, what comes to your mind? Search engine and what else. How many Google service can you name? Goggle maps, Picassa, Blogger, Google Docs… One of my friends, Marie, has recently conducted a workshop on educational uses of Google. I have not catched up with her yet. It shows signs of educational implication of Google. I recently come across some resources and papers discussing about Google and Education. i was amazed by the possibilities and innovative uses of Google and the its impact to Education in the future.Google has a university.Google Universityhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-university.html is just a prototype idea at the moment but there is no reason why it cannot be in reality.  With its Google Scholars and Google Docs and Google videos, it has all necessary learning technologies to put it into practice. Google Teacher’s Academy.While Google University is still in the planning stage. Three Google Teacher’s Academies were organized to train teachers how to use Google apps to empower their teaching.Read the follwoing blog to learn more about this initiative.http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/teachers-rock-our-world.htmlAnd the Google Education Home offers a lot of resources for teachers and the like.   http://www.google.com/educators/index.htmlThere is Google Groups for Education if you want to stay tuned with the latest news.  In there, I found a page talking how Google Docs can be integrated for language teaching purpose ( esp. process writign and peer editing)  http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.htmlIn the acdemic circle, similar claims have been ropsoed recently. In the latest Languag Learning and Technology, http://llt.msu.edu/, there is an article about Google Assisted Language Learning    http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num1/net/default.html Who says technology has nothing to do with language teaching?