I think Google Page Creator has huge potential for certain uses in education. I was working with a colleague last semester who teaches Geology and wanted students to create simple, 1 or 2 page websites. Blogging wasn’t the right solution, since these sites were made as a one-time project, and wiki wasn’t right either, since each student had to make her own page. The idea was really to have students do something more interesting than just submit a traditional paper, get them familiar with building a web page, and let them have a little more fun by including images and links.

Google Page Creator would have been perfect for this (it just wasn’t available until now). You can just write text with no HTML needed, upload and include images just like you would attach an image to email, easily see your site structure and create pages with one click. If you use Gmail, one click will generate an email to let people know about your new site; you get 100MB of space for your site, and an easy URL, i.e. http://yoursite name.googlepages.com This would solve many of the problems we ran into like the difficulty of getting and learning Dreamweaver or Frontpage to make a simple site, difficulty finding space to host the sites, and the general uselessness of the course management system in making this project easy (the course management system would only display sites if they had an “index.html” page in a certain directory – and only index.html would work, students who used index.htm, or upload the site as a folder into their directories were out of luck until we figured this out – much too complicated.)
Google have had such heavy demand for the service (digg effect) that there’s a waiting list for accounts, so put yourself on the list now!