GEG Nagoya YouTube Live Series

Learn all you didn't know about Gmail to make your teaching and professional life more communicative, collaborative and efficient! This live event was held Wed 22nd January. The next session will be on 5th February.

Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/sv5phkg

GEG Bairnsdale & Lakes Entrance Launch

GEG Bairnsdale & Lakes Entrance had a busy two days for its launch November 20 and 21 last year in collaboration with the Computer Science Education Research (CSER) Group Adelaide! Looking forward to its growth.

Google EDU Winter Festival

Last December 19th, GEG Gyeonggi and GEG Seoul, with the amazing participation of The Gyeonggi Happy Teachers Group, hosted an EDU Winter Festival event at Google Korea’s office. Over 110 educators gathered to share their knowledge and learn from each other. 

The event started off with a bi-lingual sing-along where English speakers and Korean speakers both pushed themselves outside of their comfort zones.

The speakers came from many backgrounds and the topics were very diverse. Teachers had a hands-on presentation about the power of Google Classroom with Google Trainers Rob McElroy and TS Bray, where they played the role of both teacher and student to see how this tool can make their classrooms more collaborative and organized. They delved into the importance of showing students that the journey is as important as the destination with a presentation on Process-based assessment. 

The Gyeonggi Happy Teachers opened our minds to how interdisciplinary education based on system dynamics can change how and what materials we deliver to our students.

Finally, Judy Kim dazzled everyone with her Google Innovator project that focuses on making Google tools accessible to all. We at GEG Gyeonggi and GEG Seoul hope that 2020 will bring wonderful learning opportunities to everyone in GEG and we hope to host more beneficial and fun events in 2020.

GEG Varginha Leading Training in Brazil

GEG Varginha, supported by GEG Brazil, led qualification sessions for 67 teachers in the municipality and some of these educators are already applying to become a Google Educator Level 1. The intention is to keep leading more of these training sessions this year to offer the opportunity of qualification to other educators in order to take the most advantage of Google for Education solutions. Important support on this process came from the Municipal Department of Education, which allowed teachers to join the training within their working hours. Congratulations to everyone involved!

BETT 2020

For everyone visiting BETT don’t forget the innovator energiser on January 24th. Manel Trenchs i Mola (@ManelTrenchs) will be delivering a session on building a strong online presence and brand.

Magnify Screen hack for Chromebooks

Magnify your screen with keyboard shortcuts. This feature is great for people who are visually impaired or for those showing their screen to multiple people at once.

Learn more: http://goo.gle/30prSm8

2019 In Review

Wow what a year 2019 was for GSuite. Classroom turned 5, Gmail celebrated its 15th birthday, Apps Script turned 10 and one of the latest apps this year, Google Recorder, was launched. It’s been a busy year for the GEGs too with many new groups being formed and existing GEGs finding different ways to engage with their members. We have loved watching you all grow, inspire, collaborate and share your ideas with the community and are amazed with the variety of ways you continue to work with your members. Keep doing the work you so clearly love, keep writing up reviews of your events, especially if you haven’t been featured in a recent newsletter, and let’s all help to make 2020 an even more productive year.

GEG West Bangkok

This GEG has brought back their Thirsty Thursday PD meets and have speakers from Tokyo, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand. They are hoping that other educators from around the world will join them too. The topics they have covered so far are The role of a Tech Coach, Gamification, and Well-Being.

GEG Spain Resource Bank - Banco de recursos

GEG Spain has collated all the resources from their GEG Canaries 2019 event and added them to their bank of resources. These resources come from many different educators in their region and from presentations and events they delivered.

Check it out to see what they have there as you might find them useful.

https://www.gedu.es/banco-de-recursos

GEG Amman Monthly Webinars

This GEG held its 2nd Monthly online meet and repeated it later in the day. Let's share this out to our networks and feel free to join even if you are not in Amman!

Canva Premium Is Free for Schools

With Canva, you can create anything you can imagine: Infographics, Presentations, Posters, Documents.

They are offering their premium product – Canva Pro – to classrooms for free. Jam-packed with value and time-saving features (plus millions of free images), Canva Pro normally costs $12.95 per month for each user. Register your class to unlock the best teaching tools Canva has to offer – from classroom collaboration to folders that help you stay organized.

Register for a free educational account here https://www.canva.com/education/

Google Recorder App

Be sure to download the Google Recorder App launched this month for Google Pixel but works on quite a few Android devices. It’s not just a simple recorder app it also offers so much more. It simultaneously transcribes your recordings, like Google Keep, but offers labeling and an amazing search feature to help you find particular sections of your recordings.

Be sure to check it out on Play

EDU in 90

Why not see out 2019 by watching the very last EDU in 90 for some great new feature updates. While you are there subscribe to the channel to get notifications to watch all the new episodes in 2020.

Watch EDU in 90