A big part of my job is to be familiar with virtual environments offered to the teachers I work with. In our board, we currently have two: D2L and Office365.
Many places use Chromebooks and the world of Google Apps is certainly popular with educators! But "Google Apps" is something different from a complete "Google Apps For Education" account. For example, you could use Google Docs and never use a GAFE account.
There is an ever-growing list of apps for just about every educational purpose: apps for collecting student work.. apps for presenting concepts... apps for students.. apps for teachers. If you can think of an educational use, there's an "app for that". D2L, Office365, GAFE, and many others are platforms that bunch apps together as a package.
Many places use Chromebooks and the world of Google Apps is certainly popular with educators! But "Google Apps" is something different from a complete "Google Apps For Education" account. For example, you could use Google Docs and never use a GAFE account.
There is an ever-growing list of apps for just about every educational purpose: apps for collecting student work.. apps for presenting concepts... apps for students.. apps for teachers. If you can think of an educational use, there's an "app for that". D2L, Office365, GAFE, and many others are platforms that bunch apps together as a package.