Google NZ Education Roadshow

A full house for the free professional learning Google NZ Roadshow hosted by Greg Reynolds who've highlighted trends in eLearning.

Photo by: Greg Reynolds

We explored how to:

• optimise the Chrome experience
• coordinate learning using classroom

Discussion happened around:

• using Blogger as portfolio
• Google Classroom as learning space
• Google Sites as professional communities

Using technology we can build better digital learning flows for students. It is a given that 95% is more engaged, but more importantly, 80% produce higher quality work.

This made me even more determined to utilise GAFE at our school as it can opens up an amazing world of possibility. 

Linewize also shared what they were about and how they (with GAFE) can assist in digital citizen management.

One thing that really sparked my interest was the downloading of chromium to bring old and slow PC's, netbooks and MAC's back to life.

~ "Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye ~

A new learning journey

Google Apps for Education New Zealand Summit was held on Auckland's North Shore on Tuesday,
9th October 2012, produced in partnership with the Ulearn12 Conference.

Unable to be there, though very exciting to follow the Twitter stream learning with an awesome PLN of edutweeters! 

Brain overload with new learning!

My Goal is to explore the following further:

* Great Google Doc Templates to use to liven up Docs: https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/drive/start/index.html

* 20 things I learned about browsers and the web: http://www.20thingsilearned.com/en-US

* Notes about Google maps sessions:  https://sites.google.com/site/mistersill/google-goodness/making-magnificent-maps

* How to successfully implement Google in your school:  http://teacherstraining.com.au/successfully-implement-google/

* Moving From Neutral to Warp Speed with Google Drive:  https://sites.google.com/a/edtechteam.com/google-drive/

* Google Hangouts:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E1Eeo_Yek4swG8ZeaoEymmfgCCgrDwDRk3cmS_-u9ew/present?pli=1&ueb=true#slide=id.p

* Google Lit Trips:  http://www.googlelittrips.org/

* http://www.youtube.com/teachers for teaching based playlists already created & curated.

* The new IFTTT recipes to import Instagram into Google Drive (ex. Create recipes to tell you what you want it to do...e.g. if I tweet a link then put in my Evernote):  https://ifttt.com/wtf

* Awesome Tutorials on how Teachers can Use Google Forms:  http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/09/google-forms-for-teachers.html?m=1

* Resources:  http://nz.gafesummit.com/resources

 I have also found this great article on 80 Ways to Use Google Forms in Your Classroom: http://edudemic.com/2012/10/google-forms-classroom/, which I shared during #gafesummit.

So many new things to learn and explore, but it is clear that all teachers should know how to and use Google Docs.