Presenting to Taiwan School and University Leaders at the Google Office in Taipei
by +Dan Taylor Last week I was delighted to get the opportunity to present to a group of University and School leaders together with +Suan Yeo and others at the Google office in Taipei, Taiwan. As usual it was a packed trip….flying in from Europe and straight into our second annual Taiwan summit held with +David Freeman and +Douglas Bradburn at Morrison […]
AppsEvents Featured in Google Education Newsletter
Our article about the effect of Global Google for Education Summits by AppsEvents Director, Dan Taylor, was published on the latest issue of the Google for Education Community Newsletter. We’ve cross-posted the article below: Summits featuring Google for Education are independently organized communityevents and consist of educators sharing a wide range of topics and levels. […]
Case Study – Operating a school 100% in the cloud
(scroll to the bottom for a TL;DR summary) Schools often talk of making a move completely to the cloud: Getting rid of servers and desktop software and relying purely on a router and an internet connection to deliver all technology for the school. In practice few actually do it for a multitude of reasons including […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Hapara Renews Support for AppsEvents and We’re Thrilled!
One of the things that makes our Global Google for Education Summits a huge success is the support we get from our partner EdTech companies and we limit our sponsors to companies who are deeply involved in the Google for Education ecosystem. Hapara, makers of Teacher Dashboard and Interact for Google Apps, has been a […]
Rowland Baker Receives 2014 California ASCD Instructional Leader Award
Our AppsEvents speakers and core team members are key contributors to the success of AppsEvents organized summits and to the organization itself. We would like to recognize Rowland Baker for an amazing job and being the 2014 California ASCD Instructional Leader Award Winner. Every year CASCD selects an Outstanding Instructional Leader (OIL) that has significantly […]
Capture, Manage and Deliver Great Video Lessons Using YouTube
Why Should Teachers Use Videos In The Classroom? In our experience of hosting Google for Education summits throughout international schools around the world, we still find a few educators who are not aware of the educational benefits of using YouTube or videos in general. Videos prove to be great tools in the classroom, especially to […]
Cattura Video Partners with AppsEvents for 2015
Cattura Video is excited to be a sponsor of AppEvents for 2015 and to share their new Google powered video platform, the Learning Engine, with Google Educators. The Learning Engine gives teachers the tools to centralize, organize, enrich, and index their YouTube videos for students without the clutter, adverts, unrelated videos and distraction found on […]
