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We’re excited to announce the launch of Google Sites site templates. Site templates are pre-packaged sites that anyone can use to make creating your own website even easier. This is especially valuable for students so that when you’re making your site you can now skip a few steps, and instead of making a site from scratch, start with a template. You can use site templates to organize, publish and share information about your school, class, projects, fraternity or sorority, school club, intramural teams, or any other organization or event. Additionally if you create a site that you think others might like or use, you can create a template and add it to the gallery! To browse site templates click the Create new site button. You can choose one of the popular templates highlighted on the site creation page, or you can click Browse the gallery for more to see more options. Visit www.sites.google.com to start using site templates today! Posted by Ashley Chandler, Google Sites Team

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Introducing Google Sites templates

Google Chrome is a web browser designed to load web pages and web applications at lightning speed. Whether it’s searching directly and quickly from the browser’s address bar when you need to do some intensive research, or getting to the websites you rely on quickly at the click of the mouse , Google Chrome is just fast. Google Chrome celebrated its first birthday just over a month ago with a brand new stable release, which means even more speed improvements, as well as a fresh redesign of some of its most loved features . More recently, we introduced Artist Themes for Google Chrome. We invited leading artists, architects, musicians, illustrators, filmmakers and fashion and interior designers from across the globe to create artwork for an unusual canvas: the modern web browser. Since then, we’ve enjoyed hearing thoughts from our users on these designs and how they’ve used them to personalize the browser. We’ve also been intrigued by the ways in which these themes have had interesting and unusual cultural resonance with people around the world. To continue celebrating this collaboration of engineering and art, we’ve collaborated with our friends at YouTube to launch a new video (with a surprise ending) that we hope showcases the full beauty of these themes. Check it out at youtube.com/googlechromethemes or click the image below. And if you haven’t tried Google Chrome recently, download the latest version and give it a whirl. Posted by Min Li Chan, Google Chrome Team

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Fast, simple and stylish: Not your typical web browser

Ever found yourself being an armchair tourist looking at 3D buildings of your home town in Google Earth? Have you ever wanted to highlight that famous building in your city or on your campus, but not really been sure where to start? Building Maker helps you put buildings on the 3D map. Today we launched Google Building Maker , a fun and simple (and crazy addictive, it turns out) online tool for creating buildings for Google Earth . Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – both of which we provide. When you’re done, we take a look at your model. If it looks right, and if a better model doesn’t already exist, we add it to the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. Check out this video to see Building Maker in action: For now, you can choose to make buildings in any of about 50 cities. We’ll keep adding more cities, but don’t feel left out if we don’t have your hometown yet — modeling in a place you’ve never been is a fantastic way to discover more about it. Simply, make sure you have the latest version of Google Earth installed on your computer. If you’re on a Mac, you will need to download the Google Earth plug-in directly. Building Maker is free and available in 14 languages. Go to www.google.com/buildingmaker to join the worldwide mapping community. Have fun! Posted by Mark Limber, Product Manager and Matt Simpson, User Experience Designer

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Introducing Google Building Maker

Universities from the Europe and Israel have now joined YouTube EDU . The site now provides over 45,000 videos from over 20 top universities in nine countries with academic lectures, public talks and college life from universities including Cambridge University , The Open University, (UK), INSEAD , (France), Bocconi University (Italy), Open University of Catalonia , (Spain) University of Gronigen (The Netherlands), Moscow State University (Russia) – in addition to the 200 US universities already on the site. The international version now includes a drop-down menu to filter content based on language of choice. For example, select French and find content from HEC in Paris and also the French-Canadian University of Montreal , or set to ‘All’ to browse videos in all languages. The Directory also enables subjects to be browsed – e.g. select ‘Business’, ‘Engineering’ or ‘Literature’ to see content available. Although this feature is currently only available for English at the moment, we are looking to roll-out to languages as more universities join. Now, go learn something! Posted by Anna De Paula Hanika on behalf of the YouTube EDU team

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YouTube EDU goes international – a global classroom for all

Over on the Docs Blog , Dr. Helen Barrett – a retired teacher educator and independent researcher – has written up some good tips about using “E-Portfolios” as a sort of digital resume, and how you can use Google tools to help you create your own. If you’re interested in learning more, check out this example and stop by the Docs Blog to read more about how you can use Google Sites and Docs – among other online tools – to build your own virtual portfolio. Posted by Peter Harbison, Google Docs Marketing Manager

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Creating your digital resume

It’s that time of year again. Time to brush off the sand from lazy days at the beach and hit the books. Time for group projects, club registrations, and dorm events. As I start my senior year at Stanford, this is the last time I’ll experience back to school, and I’m hoping to make the most of it with a little help from Google Docs. I’ve collaborated with classmates on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations throughout my college career, but after interning at Google for a summer and talking to many of you about how you use Google Docs, there are a few new ideas I’m itching to try, like new templates for resident assistants , teaching assistants , and student leaders . Curious to learn more about Google Docs yourself? Check out our new Google Docs page for college students . You’ll find tips and tricks — based off much of your own feedback — for great ways to save time with Google Docs both in and out of the classroom. For one particularly fun way to reap the benefits of collaborating with Google Docs, check out this video about a lovestruck student on a mission. Enjoy, and have a great school year! Posted by Stephanie Vezich, Google Docs Summer Intern

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Love school with Google Docs

Salone is a rising senior at Stanford University and has spent her summer interning with the Search Marketing team in Mountain View. As summer jobs wrap up and stores abound with “Back to School” sales, the end of summer vacation is imminent. For me, the end of August means registering for classes, endless packing sessions, shopping trips to buy a growing list of “essentials,” and the inevitable jitters that accompany the start of a new academic year. Whether you’ve been dying to get back to school or suffering from the end of summer blues, we at Google put together some study tips to help you jumpstart your school year. From getting a head start on your reading and research interests with Google Books and Google Scholar to slicing and dicing your research with timeline or wonderwheel, we hope these tips help you stay on top of your classes and get the most out of Google. But don’t fret – we know that back to school is also about catching up with your friends after a long summer. So take some time out of your busy class schedule and plan some downtime with Google, too. Good luck and here’s to a great first semester! Posted by Salone Kapur, Associate Product Marketing Manager Intern, Search Marketing Team

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Jumpstart your school year with Google

Google Checkout is happy to announce our Back-to-School promotion. Starting today through September 1, enjoy $5, $10, or $20 off your school necessities from hundreds of participating merchants. You can visit the Back-to-School promotion page , where you will find special offers from participating merchants and suggested products to help you stay ahead of the curve this fall. You can also search for your favorite back to school items on Google.com and look for one of the Google Checkout promotion badges. School shopping has never been easier with Google Checkout to help save you time and money! Posted by Anjali Vaidya, Associate Product Marketing Manager Google Checkout

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Save on school gear when you shop with Google Checkout