GEG APAC Connect - Live Event

GEG leaders from the Asia Pacific hosted their first multi-language training last October 13. Nine YouTube live streams covering English, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malay, Tamil, Korean, Filipino, and Nepalese were hosted by GEG leaders across Asia. This initiative started with GEG leaders connecting monthly since April 2019 to share best practices and culminated with the first Asia Live session. They intend to do this at least once a month to share with more teachers how they use technology in the classroom. Watch the video from October 13th, 2019 and choose your preferred language from the listed recordings.

With a total of over 2,200 combined views (at the time of writing!) across 9 languages let’s hope this is an event that can be replicated!

Special mention goes to Nathan Gildart of GEG Nagoya. Nathan had experienced greater participation in YouTube Live GEG events locally, and shared this with the GEG APAC leaders. With lots of support form APAC GEG Leaders (and another special mention to Gary Garcia - GEG Ortigas) the event was launched.

GEG Brazil Live about Data Studio

On October 7, GEG Brazil presented a live meeting about Data Studio. Ned Lindau, Cloud Solutions Lead, shared ideas of how Data Studio can be used on Education to help teachers with valuable information to make more accurate decisions as well as successful cases using the tool. Marcelo Camargo joined to share his great knowledge about Data Studio in Portuguese. Watch the full video here. Data Studio holds great potential for unlocking the data educators collect in schools and communicating it to their stakeholders.

GEG Nagoya’s Pub Night

GEG Nagoya in Japan recently held a Pub Night! Participants deepened their understanding on how to use Gmail for organization, efficiency, and communication. Also on the bill was a demonstration of Google Classroom, a popular topic to be addressed again in the near future. GEG Nagoya has also been reaching out to those who cannot attend face-to-face events with a 6-episode YouTube Live series on a range of topics, and part of a new initiative from GEGs in the Asia-Pacific region to leverage YouTube to collaborate on online events in multiple languages. Have a look at www.gegnagoya.com!

Preparing Google Certified Educators in Brazil

GEG Imperatriz in Brazil organized local meetings with educators to prepare them for the Google Educator Level 1 Certification. We are looking forward to welcoming this new group as Certified Educators!

New GEG Leaders

It’s always pleasing to see GEGs growing and developing, so we would like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest GEG leaders. Hopefully, we will see a growing social media presence and articles in future newsletters showing the work they are doing.

Welcome to three new Australian GEGs!

GEG Braidwood - The Braidwood region is located in country NSW between Batemans Bay, Queanbeyan and Goulburn. Braidwood GEG is led by local educator Alisa Stephens who started the group to help support other teachers in the region.

GEG Lake Entrance - Located on the beautiful east coast of Victoria, this new GEG is led by Google Innovator Maria Etheridge, and provides a GEG community to teachers in the region between Lakes Entrance and Bairnsdale.

GEG Mid North Coast - Taking in some 250km of the New South Wales coastline between Taree and Wollogoolga, this new GEG includes large towns like Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie and is led by Lesleigh Altmann, a Google Trainer, and Innovator.

Welcome to one Mexican GEG!

GEG Morelos - A beautiful state near Mexico City, led by Marcos Pérez.

Welcome to one Argentinian GEG!

GEG Córdoba - Lead by Josefina del Campillo, an excellent teacher who loves technology.

Welcome to new Brazilian GEG members!

GEG Vila Velha - Lead by Ingrid Soares.
GEG Uberaba - Lead by Paulo Henrique Rafael de Sousa
GEG Campo Grande - Lead by Gabriel Ferraciolli

GEG Leaders present at EDIX in Osaka, Japan

On Sept 25th to 27th, 6 GEG leaders and Innovators presented at one of the biggest conferences in Japan. Over 2,000 educators attended each day and all the speakers shared ways of using G Suite for Education and Chromebooks in Osaka.

GEG Columbia Conference

GEG Columbia is holding a day of workshops and conferences in Herrera, on November 30th with local and international speakers. Stay tuned for a report and photos for coming soon!

Word count in Google Docs - UPDATE!

This is a nice little update that might have been missed. Users often need to see the word count in the documents they write. Instead of going to Tools > Word Count each time you want to view this information, now, you can simply select Tools > Word count > Display word count while typing to continuously display it in the lower-left corner of your doc.

Read more here: http://bit.ly/2mAIGHm

GEG Canary 2019

GEG Canarias 2019 is running a transforming learning meeting on October 25th and 26th organized by GEG Spain, the local community of educators GSuiteC and the Pureza de María Santa Cruz school. A national event has never before been held in the archipelago.

There will be workshops that seek to transform learning and with great impact in the field of technology adapted to education, papers that seek reflection and experiences that will motivate and provide skills to transform learning.

To be held at Colegio Purza de María de Santa Cruz, a center recognized as a Google reference school.

Learn more: https://sites.google.com/gedu.es/geg/encuentros/canarias-2019

Brazilian GEGs celebrate Teachers’ Day & Google Classroom 5th anniversary!

In October, 50 GEGs across Brazil will join a collaborative initiative to celebrate Teachers’ Day and Google Classroom's 5th anniversary. Each GEG will coordinate local meetings to discuss Professional Development and Educational Technologies. Also, a live meeting with the GEG Brazil community will happen to share Google Classroom tips and successful cases.

Teachers and Google Classroom - a month to celebrate 5 years of this partnership that brings learning possibilities to more than 40 million people around the world.

Voice Typing Cheat Sheet

Voice typing is a fantastic tool for all learners to use in Google Docs. GEG Scotland has created a fantastic voice typing cheat sheet of many of the commands you can use to edit and format your work. Save time and fingers with this cheat sheet!

GEG supports Change the Game Challenge

GEG Varginha is also supporting young girls to join the Change the Game Challenge by mentoring them. The result? A few super nice ideas for new mobile games! Change the Game is a Google Play initiative to encourage girls from 15 to 21 years old to join the universe of games. The deadline to submit ideas is September 30.

GEG Varginha: congratulations to the whole team!

Combined Melbourne GEG event

On Monday, September 9 the Melbourne Google office hosted a combined event with the Melbourne GEG and the Mornington Peninsula GEG. With about 40 people in attendance, the event started with an introduction from two GEG leaders Micah Wilkins and Phil Carew, then some short talks from Googlers Suan Yeo and Chris Betcher followed a series of great presentations from Chris Harte, Nicole Rehman, Sam Higgs, and Kimberley Hall.

The attendees were then treated to a quick tour of the Google office before finishing with some prize giveaways and SWAG. It was a fabulous opportunity for members of both GEGs to meet and learn together. Thanks to Micah and Phil for organizing the event and to the Melbourne Google office for hosting it!

Google Innovators #SEA19

The Singapore Innovators Academy has just ended, all Innovators are beginning their 12-month mentored journey as they go about putting their innovator projects into action.

Again its all about solving problems ...."Fall in LOVE with the PROBLEM - not the SOLUTION"
Twitter is full of their great posts about the 3 days check out the #SEA19.
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Also, check out these amazing sketchnotes created by Steven Sutantro (Google Certified Innovator #SEA14 and coach at #SEA19)!

These look fantastic. If you would like to see sketchnotes for all three days find @digisketchnotes on Twitter.

Meet the complete Singapore 19 cohort here!

GEGs on Social Media

To stay connected with other GEGs worldwide, we would like for GEG leaders to add their Social Media handles through this Google Form to allow GEG members and groups to follow each other.

If your GEG does not yet have any social media profiles, please chat with your GEG Leadership about the best way of setting these up.

We would recommend using a standard @GEG(yourGEG) as the handle, as in the examples below. Here are a few accounts for you to follow:

Follow GEG Twitter @GEGChi GEG Chicago is in the process of creating a new website and have joined Twitter. Twitter @GEGperu Peru has plenty of ways to keep up with their work on Twitter GEGperu Twitter @GEGScotland GEG Scotland regularly post with ideas and activities

Change the Game

GEG Brazil continues putting on amazing activities, you can follow their awesome website and Instagram!

CHANGE THE GAME was a live YouTube chat held recently. Change The Game aims to reduce the gender gap in the technology industry and inspire young women to learn more about career opportunities in technology. Although women are the majority of online game players (59% of all game players!) only 13% are candidates looking to develop careers in technology. Maia Mau brought the program to Brazil and gives tips in this video (in Portuguese) for participating in the challenge.

Check out the website for more information.

https://sites.google.com/view/gegbsb/compartilhe?authuser=0

"The Week of Educators"

GEG Peru ran The Week of Educators Google Peru 2019 on its 5th anniversary in the first week of September. The sessions were in-person workshops and videoconferences. They plan to host this annually and dedicate a week of learning, integration, and promotion for use of Google’s educational applications and other platform tools to promote learning, as well as to share experiences that help drive educational change.

If you would like to watch the conference online please visit the GEG Peru site.

https://www.gegperu.org/seg2019

GEG Leaders at the "G Suite & Chromebook Learning Journey"

Google for Education Taiwan team walked with Taichung Education Bureau and GEG Taichung to host "G Suite & Chromebook Learning Journey" in Huludun Elementary School last August 12th. 150+ educators attended the event regardless of the rainstorm on the day of the event.

Here are more photos from the event in Taiwan: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bb1M5tvCK78BTxHo6

NEW!! - GEG APAC Connect

Be sure to add Sunday, October 13th to your calendars! That is the date for the inaugural GEG APAC Connect event planned to run in multiple language streams.

GEG APAC Connect will bring together multiple GEG leaders with the aim to:
Strengthen communication between APAC GEG Leaders.
Collective outreach/promotion of all GEGs in the region.
Arrange an innovative event that reaches out to educators in Asia-Pacific in multiple languages for multiple levels.

All participants can add comments and questions live via YouTube. Stay tuned for further details!