Ready to “unlock creativity, increase collaboration, and enable amazing learning anytime, anywhere in your school?” Here are three tips to get you started relevant to Google Suites for Education.
Tip #1 – G Suite EDU in 90 Seconds
Check out EDU in 90. This new show brings you updates on Google Suites for Education in just ninety seconds. The biweekly show will be available via YouTube. As of the time this blog entry was written, there were four episodes. More are in the works.
Here’s the introductory video to get you started:
Additional topics include Google Earth Voyager, Applied Digital Skills for Teachers, Be Internet Awesome with accompanying curriculum, and What’s New with Google Classroom and Forms.
Tip #2 – Get Your Google On (GYGO)
You may not know it, but TCEA provides a free-to-members webinar on Google Suites for Education tools. The webinar is held on the first Thursday of each month from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central and is recorded, in case you can’t make the live show. Here is a list of dates and topics:
9/7/2017 – G Suite for Education Update
10/5/2017 – Android Apps on Chromebooks
11/2/2017 – Secret Gmail Tricks
12/7/2017 – Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google
1/4/2018 – Accessibility Features of G Suite
2/1/2018 – Using Google Cast for Education
3/1/2018 – Create eBooks with G Suite
4/5/2018 – Get Started with Google Tour Builder
5/3/2018 – Google Resources for Creating Digital Breakouts
If you haven’t had the opportunity to jump into a GYGO webinar, then you will definitely want to. These fast-paced sessions are focused on elevating educator’s skills to enhance educator productivity and student learning. Register for all GYGO webinars. These webinars are FREE to TCEA members. Not a member? Joining is easy.
Tip #3 – Keep Up with Google News and Events
This summer, Google featured a series of Google Hangouts (a.k.a. webinars) featuring educational uses of Google Suites. The series continues and you can find dates and information online. One of the links you will find includes the story of a Latin American school:
Schools in Latin America and around the world are searching for ways to take student impact beyond the classroom. In Mexico, we wanted to explore how teachers and students are using technology to empower a rising generation of innovative changemakers—and this week, we’re sharing some of the stories we found. Tune into the hashtag #innovarparami to see how education leaders in Latin America are thinking about innovation.
That’s amazing, isn’t it? Sixth graders building a potable water dispenser.
Bonus Tip
One final suggestion is to follow the #GoogleEDU Twitter hashtag. What’s great is that you get up-to-date information, as well as being able to see what others are sharing. For example, one awesome find from a two-second scan of the tweets includes Creating Certificates in Google Slides. In the immortal words of The Most Interesting Man, “Keep learning, my friends!”
