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=Classrooms in the Clouds: Netbooks, Google Apps and Transmedia Learning= With increased access to laptops and netbooks, educators are building classrooms in the cloud. With anywhere - anytime access to learning materials, students and their teachers are able to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate without the barriers of classroom walls, paper textbooks, and traditional assignments.

Tools such as Google Apps allow educators to design assignments and assessments that incorporate online books and resources, images, audio, video, and gadgets. Traditional paper and pencil activities are enhanced when students can easily collaborate, manipulate images, and build multimedia projects.

Students working in these transmedia environments move seamlessly from books to social networks to online tools for reading, writing, and calculating.

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