A little something from the AppsEvents team
Hi! We hope you’re enjoying the Holiday break. We can’t believe the year has come and gone so quickly and we would like to take this opportunity to extend our gratitude to all of you subscribers, summit speakers, attendees, partner schools and organizations. We are very thankful for making us a part of your awesome […]
Google Apps and the ‘democratization’ of IT departments in schools
With the launch of our ‘AppsEvents Certified Admin’ online course a week ago we started thinking about the recent movement to decentralize some of the IT functions in schools, with teachers and other non-IT department staff getting involved in many tasks previously considered the domain of the IT department. Of course it’s been a gradual […]
AppsEvents launches the ‘AppsEvents Certified Admin’ (ACA) certification for Educators
AppsEvents are delighted to announce today the launch of our ‘AppsEvents Certified Admin’ (ACA) course for Google Apps administrators in schools. Google Apps Admins perform many of the ‘behind the scenes’ tasks such as creating and managing students and teachers. The course is ‘entry level’ and focused on getting people with basic or no admin […]
Google Classroom: FAQ
by +Sarah Woods This is another in our series of posts about Google Classroom! See links to complete series at the end of this post. We’re starting this FAQ with the questions we had, but please add your questions in the comments and we’ll try to answer them! Also, please keep in mind that we’re […]
5 Problems Google Classroom Solves Right Now
– by +Sarah Woods This is another post in our series previewing Google Classroom! 1 It creates one central place where you can post resources, assignments, and other class information. 2 Feedback on announcements and assignments – student can comment on your posts and help each other understand if an assignment doesn’t make sense. 3 You […]
4 Ways to Impact Your Students’ Learning Experiences Using Google Classroom
–by +Sarah Woods This is another in our series of posts previewing Google Classroom! 1 Language classes can have discussions in the class language! Imagine getting your students discussion topics and assignments amongsth themselves in the language they are learning! 2 Students know what’s going on! You have one place where students need to look to […]
6 Things You Can’t Do with Google Classroom…Yet
– by +Sarah Woods This is another in our series of Google Classroom preview posts! 1 You can’t add people from outside the domain 2 You can’t grade by rubric or multiple criteria, which really limits grading. You can change the number value by clicking on the “point value” 100 and typing the number you want. […]
Google Classroom: From the Student’s Perspective
–by +Sarah Woods This is the second of a series of blog posts based on a first look at Google Classroom (for part 1 click here). 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! Seeing […]
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 […]
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 […]
