The most powerful GSuite App you are not using!
By +James Sayer As a Math teacher and working with learning technologies I am a total data geek and always looking for ways to harness the data we collect in schools. Having previously worked with Fusion Tables – an analysis app able to pull data in and geotag it and produce complex heatmaps very easily – […]
The Chrome Gnomes
Just what is a gnome? According to Webster’s Dictionary, a gnome is /nōm/Noun A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth’s treasures underground. A small ugly person. A person regarded as having secret or sinister influence, especially in financial matters. So what is a Chrome Gnome? Well, to me, Chrome Gnomes are those small, […]
Entrepreneurship for teachers (and students)
As a lot of my time nowadays is taken up being CEO of AppsEvents, I present less now at summits and bootcamps then I used to. I still love to present each year though, mostly about my main areas of knowledge and interest….which is anything ‘techy’ and focussed on school IT staff. One ‘off-topic’ session […]
New G Suite Admin exam open for Beta, Google Sites update, and more
Announcements Finally! Google Sites gets publish to specific audience option! A highly requested feature for the Google Sites was released this week. Users of the new Google Sites for the we can now define who can view their content. To publish your site to a specific audience, select the “Share with others” icon and change […]
G Suite Exploration Day for Scottish Educators and other Updates
Announcements G Suite Exploration Day for Scottish Educators Google for Education’s free tools for educators and learners now also available throughGlow (central single sign on portal created by our partners RM). Learn how to share, collaborate and get creative with these online tools that are easy to use, accessible anywhere. Explore how these tools can support […]
Digital Portfolios with Google Sites
Editor’s Note: Planning to use Google Sites for your student’s digital portfolio? TS Bray, Director of EdTech at Cheongna Dalton School, shares with us his process. During the AppsEvents Summit at Chadwick International School back in December, I delivered a session on using Google Sites for Student Portfolios. I gave a walk through of the process […]
What’s up for 2018?
2017 brought a lot of big wins for AppsEvents. February last year, we successfully run our first NexTech Innovation Summit, a new kind of event designed for International School Educators. Aside from organizing new Google summits, we also did a couple of FREE seminars in sponsored by Google, RM Education, and Acer. We welcomed more […]
December 2017 G Suite Updates
Google released a couple of updates for G Suite last month. Here is our digest of some key updates and recommendations you might find helpful. Embed HTML and JavaScript in the new Google Sites Embedding of custom HTML and Javascript codes is now supported in the new Google Sites. This means that aside from iframes, […]
AppsEvents and Acer Global Partnership
During 2017/2018 Google Summit and Bootcamp attendees will have had the opportunity to check out the latest Chromebooks from Acer at events in UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Beginning August 2017, AppsEvents is delighted to announce that we have extended the Acer partnership to include all our Global events. Through the AppsEvents team experience, […]
November 2017 G Suite Updates
Google has released a couple of important updates for G Suite this month. Here is our digest of some key updates particularly useful for educators, education support staff, and school leadership. Increased editor limit Did you know that you can now have 100 people editing in a Google Doc/Sheet/Slide at once? That’s double than what […]
