Google Classroom: From the Teacher’s Perspective
by +Sarah Woods This is the first of a series of blog posts based on a first look at Google Classroom. We know we’re looking at a sneak peek, so it may not have all the features Google intends, but we still thought you’d like to see what there is! Announcements and Assignments: the flow of […]
Introducing AppsEvents Global Summit Partner ‘Hapara’
We are delighted to have had Hapara as a great supporter of our summits and the Google in Education Community in general since our first ever summit in Prague 2012, and have had fun hanging out with the Hapara team literally across the world at our summits in Asia, Europe and the US. Hapara is […]
Google Demo Slams Live-on-Air with Lee Webster
If you are constantly looking for fresh ideas on how to use Google products more efficiently in the classroom or new Google tricks to improve work productivity, tune-in to the Google Slam community by +Lee Webster. The Google Slam community is a once a month live on air show where a group of educators from […]
Guest Blog Post: Lesser-Known Google Search Tips and Tricks for Students and Teachers
Editor’s note: Today’s article is a guest blog post from +Andrew Broadbent, Director of Search Marketing at Vab Media and one of our volunteers during the Connecticut Summit last June. His passion for “search” inspired him to create this blog post to help students and teachers be more effective in doing web research by harnessing […]
Google Apps for Education ‘Optimisation Audit’ Process [Infographic]
We posted previously about our Google Apps for Education Optimization Audit where we analyze the Google Apps set-up for schools and recommend modifications based on analysis of the current set-up and incorporation of best practice from leading schools. We thought we would show our audit process here as it may be useful for schools who […]
Coming soon in late 2014: AppsEvents Announce ‘Google Classroom’ Bootcamps
There has been a huge interest in Google Classroom and from what we have seen so far it is going to be a revolutionary tool in further democratising EdTech and moving control to the individual teacher. Our blog post on Google Classroom and the Google Classroom ‘Sneak Preview’ at our California Summit back in May […]
Configuring Google Apps Content Filters to Support Anti Bullying
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is a guest article from Milan Mihajlov. Here he shares how Google Apps admins can help support the school’s anti-bullying campaign. Read on to learn more. In this article, we will take a close look into mechanisms for content filtering available in the Google Apps platform. The article consists of […]
Digitally Mapping Your Classroom with Google Sites
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is a guest article from +Sam Rosenfeld, one of our presenters for the Connecticut Summit this June 21 to 22. Some of the ideas covered in this guest blog are ones he is going to present at the CT summit, and he wanted to share them with everyone who can’t […]
AppsEvents announces a partnership with TICAL in California to offer the fantastic ‘Leading Edge Certification for the Online and Blended Teacher’
The program is structured as a one day face to face course and then 50-60 hours distance learning spread over eight weeks. AppsEvents will be running the one day course as a summit pre certification track with the Bangkok Summit being the first summit to offer this course on the Friday before the summit. More […]
Summits versus Bootcamps versus Cloud Camp
We’ve been asked many times what is the main difference between the various training events that we host and with the addition of Cloud Camp to our list of offerings, let’s take a look at the difference between a Google in Education summit, certification bootcamp, and Google Cloud Camp. A Google in Education Summit is […]
