New Certification Bootcamps in Brazil

L2 Certification Bootcamp: 5 weeks of qualification for 112 educators of different parts of Brazil. 14 voluntary GEG leaders are mentoring the team. Most of these educators are motivated to get the certification to apply to the Google Innovator program. This year, the application period will end on September 27.

L1 Certification Bootcamp: Two other groups are open with the support of leaders Vânia Flores from GEG Varginha, Márcia Cosme from GEG São Bernardo do Campo and Veronica Melendez from GEG Santo André.

L1 Certification Bootcamp: Vânia Flores is also leading another group for the Municipal System of Varginha, within the launch program of G Suite for Education for this network. The qualification is happening from September to December, both physically and online, and aims the digital fluency to the utilization of Google tools in pedagogical practice.

Varginha - Educadores Transformadores

GEG-Ohio monthly online meetings

With the start of the new school year, GEG-Ohio had its first online meeting on 29th August. These will be monthly and will cover all the new features and updates in G Suite from the last month, as well as great ideas for using Google tools in school.

You can view the recorded video for the meeting at https://www.youtube.com/ericcurts with a special guest Jake Miller!

You can see all the upcoming meetings on their very useful Google Site

https://sites.google.com/view/geg-ohio/monthly-meetings

GEG Scotland is growing

The use of G Suite for Education in Scotland continues to grow as many more local authorities enable access within Glow - Scotland national learning platform. As a result of this growth, the population of Scottish Google for Education Certified Trainers is increasing - GEG Scotland now has an incredible 15 trainers amongst its community! This incredible team of trainers all run the @GEGScotland Twitter page, sharing practice, resources and ideas for embedding G Suite for Education in the classroom. I am sure we will be seeing many more posts from GEGScotland in these newsletters.

Google Educator Group Nagoya

GEG Nagoya facilitate sessions in both English and Japanese.

You can join them online in a series of presentations with YouTube. Ask questions or comment during live presentations from wherever you are in the world! All sessions from 8pm Japan Standard Time zone. Join them for all 6 episodes and they'll send you a digital certificate!

The series starts on September 4th - Maximising GMail. Join in the chat. 8pm JST on Twitter.

Videos can be accessed here after the live stream at: https://tinyurl.com/y5ckjcba