A feast awaits you today – Google Education on Air online conference – all free!
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This morning I had an email from Mary Hacking from Grove Primary in Cape Town reminding me of the Google Online Conference on 8th and 9th May and saying how much she enjoyed yesterday’s presentations: https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/live/2015-may. When you open this website you’ll see the times for your own country, which is amazing! I discovered that in South Africa we operate with SAST – South African Standard Time!
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This all sounds very exciting! This is a free, international online conference created by Google. Why not add this Google online event to your dairies for May 8th, 9th and 10th! This post with the latest announcement was recently posted on the Google for Education blog
Last month Google announced their Education on Air conference — a free online conference taking place May 8-9, 2015. They have now released the schedule of sessions, based on suggestions from those who sent in ideas. They’ll emphasiz...
This is an exciting message from Karen Walstra from the Google team in South Africa.
“Dear Google for Education user,
Hope you are well. I am writing to let you know that we just announced Education on Air, a free online conference for educators on May 8-9, 2015. (Time zone is US based)
Day 1 of the event will focus on “leading for the future” with sessions from educators, students, and other leaders.
On Day 2 over 100 educators will lead sessions on “shaping the class...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye.
1. Soon Offline Access Will Be the Default Setting for Google Docs and Slides
http://goo.gl/1Wj2tX
This is great news for schools where Internet access is intermittent. Over the next couple of weeks offline access will become the default setting for folks who sign into Chrome on the web and visit Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.Bear in m...
Here is an email from Karen Walstra who is the Program Manager for Education at Google for Education in South Africa.
Dear Administrators, IT Leaders, Academic Heads of Schools, Universities, FET and TVET Colleges
You are invited to attend one of our Innovation Tour Days in Durban, Johannesburg or Bloemfontein
At each one-day event we will share ideas about Google for Education from both the technical and academic points of view. Our GEG Team will also discuss Google communities and in...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye.
1. Best Practices for Using Google Classroom – gCON for GAFE
http://goo.gl/BVNvzN
This is an hour long video. Join Juan De Luca, Google Certified Teacher and Trainer, and learn how take advantage of Google Classroom in your school. This simple, but powerful, tool can help organize your classroom workflow and improve the productivit...
We are pleased to report that the Google GEG (Google Educator Group) Kickstarter workshops have been taking place around South Africa. These workshops have taken place in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Rustenburg, Emalheni, Uppington and Durban. The final workshop for 2014 was a two day Train the Trainer workshop held for the Edunova staff in Phillipi Cape Town. Two workshops are planned in the near future at Hoerskool Noorderland in Polokwane, Limpopo and at Uplands College in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. GEG Dainf...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Just looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye. I think these could be useful to teachers.
1. ‘How to Easily Find the Biggest Files in your Google Drive’ from Digital Inspiration http://goo.gl/b5msYB
What do you do when your Google Drive is running out of storage space? You either add more storage or the inexpensive option is that you clean up your Drive and delete the large files...
This message was sent out at the end of last year. It is a great summary of what Google was busy with plus it is loaded with useful links.
“The Google for Education Team would like to thank you for your involvement this year in the workshop and for using Google for Education Tools in your learning environment.
2014 has been a great year – We launched great tools like Google Classroom, Google Apps School Directory Sync, Android 5.0 has great APIs for Work and Education, ...
Google.co.za recently announced the winning Doodle in the Doodle4Google South Africa of my dreams contest. The Doodle was created by Katya Ludick, who won a R100,000 technology award for her school, Hoerskool Noordheuwel at the Doodle4GoogleSA Awards in Johannesburg.
Katya’s Doodle was displayed on the Google.co.za page on 3rd December. Her caption for her Doodle was ‘SA Flag is proudly represented in the Google letters. The reflection symbolises 20 years of freedom. In my South African dream there ...
