Friday, October 31, 2014

Coding for good and reading for fun: the first-ever Chrome App Developer Challenge in India

Posted by Sunil Rao, India Developer Relations, and Suhair Khan, Chrome & Education Partnerships and Strategy. According to READAlliance...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Browse, skim, study your favorite nonfiction books more easily with Google Play

Have you ever had breakfast for dinner? Or checked the score of the big game before you watched it? Traditional ebook reading is great when ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Movie night made better with the new Google Play Movies & TV app

After a long day, you want to sit back, kick up your feet and watch a hot new release. With today’s updated Google Play Movies & TV app ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Georgetown University brings Hoyas together with Google Apps for Education

Posted by Lisa Davis, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Georgetown University (Cross-posted on the Google for Work blog .) ...

Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness.

When it comes to improving our fitness, every little effort counts. That’s why we’ve created Google Fit – a fitness app that helps you to s...

Going back to our roots: Google Apps in higher education

Posted by Bram Bout, Director, Google for Education (Cross-posted on Google for Work blog .) Universities and schools continue to tell ...

A sweet Lollipop, with a kevlar wrapping: New security features in Android 5.0.

With each new release of Android, we try to stay two steps ahead of the bad guys. When it comes to security, Lollipop is the biggest update ...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Take a field trip to outer space with INTERSTELLAR Lesson Plans inspired by the new movie

Posted by Devin Sandoz, Google for Education marketing Editor's note:  Director Christopher Nolan shares his thoughts about education...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Helping teachers teach computer science

Posted by Karen Parker, Education Program Manager and Jason Ravitz, Education Evaluation Manager (Cross-posted on the Research Blog .) ...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Add-ons for Forms bring a little something extra to your surveys

Posted by Saurabh Gupta, Product Manager Google Forms is a free and simple way to collect information--from quickly collecting preferences f...

Jogging and jamming with Android Wear and the Sony SmartWatch 3

Going for a run is a great way to get some exercise and disconnect from the everyday grind. Today, Android Wear is giving you some extra mo...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Wrap-up of the Grace Hopper Celebration

Posted by Sidnie Davis, University Programs Specialist The annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing wrapped up last week, and a...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

It’s Tuesday morning, play music for a bright, sunshiny day

It’s Tuesday morning and you might be sitting in the office, in desperate need of a way to stay motivated for the week ahead. How about a pl...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Android: Be together. Not the same.

Good things happen when everybody’s invited. A few years ago, we had the thought that phones (and stuff that hadn’t even been invented yet l...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Improving Google Classroom for students around the world

Posted by Madhav Bhagat, Software Engineer, Classroom (Cross-posted on the the  Google for Work blog .) Primary school students in rura...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Europe Code Week: learning to code for the future

Posted by Marielena Ivory, Pre-university Education Specialist, Europe The European Commission estimates that more than 900,000 high tech ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Get your code on with Google Code-in

Posted by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs At Google, we are passionate about introducing students to open source software development...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Announcing the Google CS Engagement Small Awards Program

Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, University Relations (Cross-posted on the Google Research Blog .) College students are more interested th...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Meet the winners of the 2014 Google Science Fair

Posted by Sophie Healy-Thow, Emer Hickey and Ciara Judge, 2014 Google Science Fair grand prize winners Editor's note: Last week, 16 y...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

A new look for Google Play Newsstand

It’s been a little less than a year since we launched Google Play Newsstand, our news reading experience for Android and iOS devices, and w...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Why Google Cares about Computer Science Education

Posted by Mo Fong, Director of K12 Education Outreach There’s been a lot of talk about the importance of students learning computer programm...