Guest Blog Post: Lesser-Known Google Search Tips and Tricks for Students and Teachers
Editor’s note: Today’s article is a guest blog post from +Andrew Broadbent, Director of Search Marketing at Vab Media and one of our volunteers during the Connecticut Summit last June. His passion for “search” inspired him to create this blog post to help students and teachers be more effective in doing web research by harnessing […]
Coming soon in late 2014: AppsEvents Announce ‘Google Classroom’ Bootcamps
There has been a huge interest in Google Classroom and from what we have seen so far it is going to be a revolutionary tool in further democratising EdTech and moving control to the individual teacher. Our blog post on Google Classroom and the Google Classroom ‘Sneak Preview’ at our California Summit back in May […]
Digitally Mapping Your Classroom with Google Sites
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is a guest article from +Sam Rosenfeld, one of our presenters for the Connecticut Summit this June 21 to 22. Some of the ideas covered in this guest blog are ones he is going to present at the CT summit, and he wanted to share them with everyone who can’t […]
AppsEvents announces a partnership with TICAL in California to offer the fantastic ‘Leading Edge Certification for the Online and Blended Teacher’
The program is structured as a one day face to face course and then 50-60 hours distance learning spread over eight weeks. AppsEvents will be running the one day course as a summit pre certification track with the Bangkok Summit being the first summit to offer this course on the Friday before the summit. More […]
Chrome User Management: How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts in a Single Browser
I have observed that a lot of people today have at least two Gmail accounts, one for personal use and another one for business. It is also not uncommon that these multiple accounts are used on a regular basis. For the longest time I’ve been struggling on how to manage multiple email accounts until Google […]
What Teachers Can Expect from Classroom
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, Google announced a new feature that promises to make managing classes using their Google Apps for Education suite much more efficient through a new product called Classroom. Since the announcement, everyone in the Google Education world can’t stop talking about it. We know many of you can’t wait to […]
Treasure Trove ‘Cloud Camps’ Now offered through Apps Events with Allison Mollica
Google Apps are a treasure trove of opportunity. Google Mail, Drive, and Sites are just the tip of the iceberg in Google Apps for Education. There are so many undiscovered uses and applications that are available through that one Google account. This past year while working with AppsEvents and facilitating sessions at Google for Education Summits, I have developed a […]
Google Easter Eggs: Show Pony Parade, Shy Dino, and Angry Mob on Hangouts
One of our favorite thing about summits (aside from the free drink parties :D), is the Demo Slam session where attendees get to show off their Google tricks and tips to the rest of the crowd by doing a 2 minute live demonstration. For today’s blog post, we are highlighting this wacky demo slam by […]
How To Bypass Google Drive Viewer and Create Direct Download Links
Google Drive has revolutionized the way we share files and collaborate with others. You can upload and share almost any file format you can think of and the people whom you share the file with can easily preview a file, even without installing the needed software on their browser via Google Drive Viewer (PSD and […]
Google Certified Trainer Application is Open Today through May 16th
If you have been working on your GCT application or it has been ready and waiting for the window to open, that day has arrived! Today through May 16th you can submit your Google Certified Trainer Application. For this application you will need to submit: Google Qualified Educator Status (passed the 5 exams) Resume […]
