It’s More Than Your Chromebook Rollout Plan, It’s Change Management

Are you doing it right?by +Jack West, Hapara Senior Research Analyst School is starting in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in the U.S., we say, “August is the new September,” as many school districts are deciding to begin school earlier and end earlier to log in more instructional hours before the April/May standardized testing season. Many […]

Google Summit succeeds at Pinkerton – www.unionleader.com

By HUNTER McGEEUnion Leader Correspondent DERRY — Educators and participants from throughout the region and world turned out recently for the two-day New Hampshire Google Summit held at Pinkerton Academy. The Google education summit focused on helping educators, administrators and school technology professionals learn more about the Google Apps for Education program in both the […]

AppsEvents Team Member Invited to the White House

We are delighted that one of our core team members, Rowland Baker, was invited to speak at the White House last month for his work on Future Ready Schools Coalition together with another representative from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Jason Borgen, who also happens to be one of our session presenters for […]

Cattura CaptureCast: Great Screencast Tool for Education Videos

Have you ever considered creating your own videos or having your own YouTube channel? For educators looking for a simple screencasting tool to record tutorials, demos and presentations, Cattura’s CaptureCast Chrome App is what we use at AppsEvents. CaptureCast is a free screen and webcam recorder that lets you seamlessly upload to YouTube, Vimeo Pro, or […]

AppsEvents announce new one day Certification courses for Google for Education

To follow up from the Google announcement last week about their new Education Certifications we are delighted to be rolling out four brand new 1 day certification courses to schools worldwide starting from 1 July. A feedback we have often heard from attendees at our trainings is that attendees would like to come to learn and […]

Review of the new Google Education Certifications

With the announcement of the new Google Eduction Certifications last Friday we thought we would post a quick summary of the new certifications and how they differs from the old ones. Firstly here are the two important links to get you started: Education Training CenterCertification FAQ page The pdf below gives a summary of the […]

Our Connected Data

by +John Mikton Over the last few weeks, an outstanding series produced by ARTE called “Do Not Track Me” has become available and is getting quite a bit of social media attention. The different episodes explore and highlight the technologies, algorithms, data mining and aggregation of our online information through digital devices, tools, ecosystems and environments. Each of […]

Better Student Engagement Through Media Rich Collaboration with SMART amp

Editor’s Note: Today’s blog post is a guest article from +Boris Berlijn, one of our speakers for Netherlands GIESummit held last May 2-3, 2015 at The International School of Amsterdam. In this blog post, he shares his experience working with a new cloud collaboration tool and how it has helped him really engage his students. […]