Acer and Chromebook Tab UK Tour
Do you want the versatility of a tablet and the security and manageability of a Chromebook? Acer’s new Chromebook Tab 10 is the perfect device for you. Get your hands-on this new device at a series of events across the UK to showcase Chrome and G suite for Education. Get creative with learning using this […]
Connect with these Google EDU Experts at the Taichung, Taiwan Summit
The 2018 Taiwan Google for Education Summit offers two days of learning to support classroom teachers, school leaders, IT Admins, and education support staff on leveraging the G Suite for Education tools (formerly Google Apps) to enhance and support 21st century learning as well as improve collaboration and communication across organizations. Our special guest presenters […]
Conditional Formatting | Tips and Tricks Episode 13
Welcome to another Acer and AppsEvents Tips and Tricks video. In this episode, Sethi teaches us all about conditional formatting in Google Sheets! Conditional Formatting allows cells, rows, or columns to be formatted to automatically change text or background color if they meet certain conditions. Conditional Formatting in Sheets is very easy use. It makes […]
What Teachers Need to Learn from Gamers
by Randy Fairfield, AppsEvents Presenter A few years ago I was teaching a course and noticed a curious trend towards the end of the school year: There seemed to be a direct correlation between students wearing Minecraft t-shirts and failing my class. It was uncanny. Now I wasn’t really sure what Minecraft was at that […]
Digital Tools in the Maths Classroom
“Opening up maths to be problem-solving lends it to digital tools. So, there began my use of digital tools in my Maths Classroom.” As a Google Certified Trainer, I get to visit schools and work with teachers to integrate G Suite for Education, Google’s set of collaborative cloud-based tools. I got into this line of work […]
The Insiders Guide to Gmail Inboxes
By Allison Mollica, AppsEvents USA Director As a seasoned Google Certified Trainer I have seen thousands of GMail Inboxes with 1K+ unread messages and clearly no organized approach to managing email. Over the years, I have applied some successful strategies to managing my GMail inbox to achieve what is often referred to as ‘inbox zero.’ […]
From being a PE Teacher to speaking and running events across the world with Adam Llevo
On this week’s episode of ‘The Events Podcast’, Dan spoke with Adam Levo from mradampe.com. Adam has presented to a lot of our Google training! It was a really interesting chat and relevant both to teachers and employees looking to start speaking at conferences and running their own events. Adam started as PE Teacher in the […]
Jamboard Editing Coming to the Web!
Google Jamboard is an interactive digital whiteboard service designed to take creativity and collaboration to the next level. It provides an easy way to visualize your ideas together with a team. Initially, participants can only edit a Jam session through a touch device such as the physical Jamboard kiosk, tablet, or smartphone. With the recent […]
Learn to Code Your First Android App with AppInventor
By Allison Mollica, USA Director – AppsEvents There are loads of ‘learn to code’ resources on the web but it can be difficult to find something you can put to work right away to teach yourself or others. A while back I dove deep into the MIT AppInventor site to build an Intro to Apps […]
Toolkit for Google Schools
Personalised Learning. Now there’s a term that means different things to different people! If we consider technology and in particular G Suite, the term becomes a little more meaningful and practical. With technology, and even more so with 1:1 deployments, we now have the tools to take a more learner centric approach. Tools to enable […]