@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004155,
 author = {Smith, Guy},
 journal = {語学研究},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {In the spring of 2015, International Christian University (ICU) changed its 
internal web mail service to Gmail, in the process becoming an 
educational domain as part of Google Apps For Education (GAFE). With 
this move, some applications not available in a general Gmail account 
have become available to instructors at the university. The recent 
widespread implementation and use of Goggle Apps in the educational 
sphere here in Japan means applications such as Google Drive,Google 
Forms and others have become relatively well recognized and utilized in 
the educational community. However, as of the present, few instructors at 
ICU are familiar with Google Classroom, one of the newly available 
applications offered to instructors as part of the educational domain. In my 
exploratory trial of Google Classroom as a classroom management tool 
over the ICU Spring Semester, I hale found it requires a short learning 
curve, and further, to offer many advantages in allowing teachers to reduce 
time spent on routine class management. Thus, the purpose of this article 
is to introduce the reader to Google Classroom, providing context for 
Google Classroom in the history of GAFE: and offering an overview of 
the applications and educational uses, in the prospect of spreading 
awareness and understanding of this digital tool.},
 pages = {1--8},
 title = {Letting Google do the Heavy Lifting – An Introduction to, and Review of Google Classroom},
 volume = {30},
 year = {2016}
}