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Google Apps and Education Imagine how valuable it would be if your entire campus community — students, faculty, and staff — could share information and ideas more easily. With Google Apps Education Edition’s free communication, collaboration and publishing tools, you can start bringing that vision to life.

Google Apps and Education Google Apps Education Edition is really, truly free You don't have to buy anything to use Google Apps Education Edition -- no hardware, no software, no consulting. Open standards Services work across multiple platforms -- PCs, Macs, even Linux computers! -- and it gives each user the flexibility to use the internet browsers that they prefer.

These are the Google Apps Google Page Creator –With Google Page Creator, you can create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click, without doing any programming whatsoever. There's no software to download and no web designer to hire but your pages can still look creative, unique and professional. The pages are hosted on Google servers and are available from your domain for the world to see. Page hosting is free, just like all the other Google Apps services.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers. You can, for example, coordinate your student group's homework assignments

Google Calendar With Google Calendar, sharing events and meetings with others is simple. You can coordinate schedules with people in several ways: Send out meeting and event invitations, and track people's responses whether or not they use Google Calendar. Share your calendar (or just some of your agenda information) with people you know. Create a shared calendar for your organization, team or group that everyone can view and edit. Create a public calendar that anyone can subscribe to. Display your calendar on your internal or external website

The Google Pack Other Apps from Google

Google Earth Zoom from space to street level — tour the world Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Includes Google Sky- allows viewer to see the Constellations and stars.

Norton Security Scan Detects and eliminates viruses and internet worms Free detection updates and scheduled scanning

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar Browse the web quickly and securely Switch between pages quickly with tabbed browsing Some say it is more stable than Internet Explorer

Spyware Doctor – Starter Edition Detects and removes spyware, adware, trojans and keyloggers Includes Smart Updates and scheduling to protect your PC

Picasa Find, edit, and share your photos in seconds Easily remove red eye and fix photos Easy and fun to use

Star Office Suite StarOffice software is an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. The office suite has a simple, easy-to-use interface and contains full-featured applications including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database capabilities

Real Player Play popular media formats, organize music and videos Transfer music to iPod and other portable media players

Google Desktop Find all your , files, web history, and more Get all your personalized info in one place with Sidebar