Dan Taylor, Author at AppsEDU

The three phases of Google Apps adoption in schools

It’s interesting having being involved in Google Apps projects at schools since the launch of Google Apps for Education in 2006 to look at the evolving trends as to why schools have adopted Google Apps and Google tools. I had a really interesting chat last week with Jan Zawadski from Hapara in Palo Alto where […]

AppsEvents to host the first Google Apps Administrator Certification Courses

We are delighted to announce that AppsEvents will host the first worldwide certification courses to be a Google Apps Administrator. Google Apps admins are some of the key members of the Google Apps Community and it is great to see a certification focussed just for them. AppsEvents team members were involved with Google during the […]

Changes to the Google Education Certification Programs in 2014

We have had several questions regarding the updated Google Education Certifications so I thought I would write a blog post to look at the new certifications, and also the changes in more detail. Firstly all information about the certification programs is available at the new Google Education page by clicking on the ‘Certification’ link. The […]

Computer Science Custom Search, MYP Design Grading Rubric, Google Classroom Update, and More

Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from December 15 to 21, 2014. Computer Science Custom Search – www.cs4hs.com To make it easier for all K-12 educators to access computer science education materials, Google created Computer Science (CS) Custom Search. This search engine has been customized to connect you […]

Upcoming Events for 2016

We are excited to announce the dates for some of our 2016 events (more to be added) featuring Google for Education in the US, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa in partnership with the Google for Education team and International Schools worldwide. Now is the perfect time to be making plans to take advantage of […]

AppsEvents Certified Admin (ACA) online course overview

The ‘AppsEvents Certified Admin’ (ACA) is an entry level certification and focused on getting educators with basic or no admin experience to ‘level up’ and be able to administer a live Google Apps Domain. It’s equally focused on teaching and non teaching staff and one of the reasons we started the program was to help […]

Mini Charts in Google Sheets Cell, Guest Mode on Chromecast, Google Tips, and More

Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from December 8 to 14, 2014 as well as updates from our #GIESummit Twitter stream. SPARKLINE – support.google.com To help you visualize data trends in a spreadsheet, you can now add miniature charts, or sparklines, into individual cells in Sheets. Guest mode […]

Attach Multiple Drive Files to an Assignment in Google Classroom and more

Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from December 1 to 7, 2014. Classroom Update – plus.google.com Now you can attach multiple Drive files to an assignment in Google Classroom. Google, a world within the World! – docs.google.com Presentations slides by +Teresa Almeida d’Eca for her session during the first […]

Amazing Shortcut for Sharing Google Docs, New Security Tools for Google Apps, and more

Great resource links, tips, news, and updates shared by our Google+ community members from November 23 to 30, 2014. Amazing Shortcut for Sharing Google Docs! – www.shakeuplearning.com Easily share a preview copy of Docs, Sheets and Slides with just a quick edit of the URL. Great tip shared by +Kasey Bell New security tools to help improve online […]