Global GEG: Making the World a Smaller, Better Place

Global GEG began when six Trainer/Innovators (Stephanie Howell, Abid Patel, Stephanie Rothstein, Luis Pertuz, Bonnie Chelette, and Lesleigh Altmann) wanted to support GEG events in their local regions all over the world. They began sharing resources, teaming up for events, and helping one another. This group realized that they were a small representation of GEGs across the globe and that others could use this support. Together, on May 1st, they founded Global GEG.

Global GEG’s official launch is June 25th but that hasn’t stopped this team from supporting events for GEGs all over the world. Since June, this group of 45+ educators has supported over 35 events including 11 local GEG launches. Whether you need help starting a GEG in your region, reigniting your GEG, communication strategies, professional development opportunities, or even a space to share your expertise and present on a global scale, Global GEG is here to help! Please visit the Global GEG Support webpage for specific events that help local GEGs.

Global GEG’s Level 1 Bootcamp sessions took place over three Fridays in June with office hours the following Mondays. The Bootcamp has had over 11,000 views of Days 1 and 2 with Day 3 taking place on the 26th of June. 25 Global GEG Leaders supported this effort with many more jumping onto the live chat to assist in answering questions. The event helped attendees become more prepared and confident to take the Level 1 GCE exam. Attendees took to social media to share their joy. Many were quite motivated by the leaderboard, challenges, secret words, and the option to earn graduate credit. Global GEG will conduct a Level 2 bootcamp on the 24th and 27th of July.

For Bootcamp videos, resources, notes, and summaries, please visit the Global GEG GCE Bootcamp website. Click on Level 1 and the Day to see all things associated with each day of the bootcamp series.

Global GEG would love to have you! If you are interested in joining this voluntary Google Educator Group (GEG) to learn from GEGs all over the world and grow your PLN, please visit globalgeg.org/meet-the-team and click volunteer to get more information.

Bootcamp Thank Yous, Sketchnotes, and More

GEG Gyeonggi - GSuite101 YouTube Relay (GSuite Pacemaker)

GEG Gyeonggi is here to help educators during this difficult time with COVID-19. We will be uploading GSuite tool tutorial videos once a day and we hope it will empower and equip educators all around the world to continue to educate the students they serve. These tutorials are put together by the GEG Gyeonggi leaders and captains of various nationalities and professions. Thus, each video was produced in Korean and English. The leaders and captains at GEG Gyeonggi will be your pacemaker! https://youtu.be/V1diQVHyVWY

GEG Community Map Update

It is that time again - please submit your updated map information to this form. Please note that to be shown on the map, GEGs must also submit the link to the GEG Google Group.

The GEG map will link to the GEG Group and other social links - if these were submitted.

Once again - please do submit your Google Group to this form to be fully included in the directory!

GEG On Air #19

Click here to watch it!

On June 17, GEG Brazil led the 19th session of GEG On Air, focused on socio-emotional and ideas to support the development of these skills using Google Tools, within the Education Environment - involving students, educators and parents. Bingo, surveys, GIFs representing different emotions, good feeling challenges, and many other creative ideas were shared to help teachers to engage even more with their educational community. All tips are available in this document: bit.ly/roteirogegonair19.

Special thanks to Andrea Castagini (GEG Curitiba Leader, Google Innovator), Renata Marchioreto Muniz (GEG Osasco Leader and Google Certified Teacher Level 1 and 2) and Giselle Santos (Google Innovator) for sharing their amazing suggestions and experiences with the GEG Brazil community!

Amazing work by GEG Kathmandu

GEG Kathmandu has been providing continuous support and training to School/High School educators during this lockdown period. They have helped Schools go online, prepare content, and use Google Classroom as the core of their Asynchronous method of teaching.

Sagun Dhungana (GEG Kathmandu Leader) and Sushil Upreti (GEG Kathmandu Leader, Google Certified Innovator) are handling the online sessions as well as all the operations while working from home like us all :-)

To ease the process and get all the educators rolling to Google Edu, they have created a 10-hours exclusive training program and enrolling in batch.

It’s growing every day and encouraging educators to certify and get qualified for Google Education. Here are some of the work they have been doing.

1. More than 1300 Educators trained in 30 days.
2. 200+ Schools participated in Online Training
3. 50+ Google for Edu Tools demonstrated
4. More than 70 hours of online training (ongoing)
5. More than 200 PArticipates in Single Google Meet training session, ran for 5 days and 10 hours total
6. 250 Educators enrolled for the Google Certification preparation program
7. 5 Schools in the process to register for Google for Education License

Short & Suite (with Ben & Daren)

Short & Suite is a weekly GEG UK show hosted by certified trainers Daren White (@rangathetrainer) and Ben Moore (@trainingwithBM) on Thursdays at 8pm GMT+1 on YouTube. Every week, we focus on a different G Suite tool or complimentary 3rd party app. Some shows are pre-recorded but we run the chat live, others are completely live with special guests. We launched in March and have grown to over 100 subscribers already - please drop in and join us for a show.

Check out our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp7nZ_hng6mYcXy2aK9P7RA?view_as=public

Teaching Online Feedback

Reminder for #VIA20 Google Innovator applications

Please remind your aspiring Google Innovators that July 10th is the submission date for their applications. This is an online cohort offered in Spanish and English and will help your members join the amazing group of Innovators around the world.

GEG Canberra

GEG Canberra has opened registration for TERM 2 of 8 ways of Aboriginal Learning! 5 hrs TQI Accreditation. Follow the link to sign up: https://www.smore.com/wtckx-8-ways-of-aboriginal-learning

GEG Colorado Jamboard session

GEG Colorado has a session on Google Jamboard with Rachel Coathup (@TechMissC) on June 30th 2020. 12:30 MST | 11:30am PST | 2:30pm EST | 6:30pm UTC | 7:30pm BST Register here → bit.ly/gegcoevent

Google Educator Group Nagoya

Episode 5 of GEG Nagoya's 2020 Online Live series on Wednesday, May 13th covered creating classroom activities with Google Forms. During the session, GEG members mentioned that they would like to get more presenters, so if you are interested in connecting, contact GEG Nagoya.

Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/NOv8TAiFnmE

The next YouTube Live series will be on June 10th for a session on Google Sheets in the Classroom! They have sessions every month until December 2020. For more information, visit https://www.gegnagoya.com/. 

Look at what the New GEGs are up to

Just a few months ago we called for GEGs to join Twitter. Since then, there have been so many new GEGs created and launched by advertising on Twitter. Well done to all you GEG leaders.

GEG Mandaluyong - Philippines @GegMandaluyong

Welcome to this new GEG! Email jdsmercado@gmail.com if you want to be a member.

GEG Ireland @GegIreland

Launched 26th May with a webinar on Blended learning! Guest speakers were Dean Stokes and James Leonard.

GEG South Carolina @SCarolinaGEG

This GEG hosted their first live webinar last May 27th with @specialtechie about using Wakelet in the classroom!

Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBzWgOWp5wA

Another live webinar is happening on June 5th 3pm EST on using Hyperdocs to engage and excite students. Sign up here.

GEG South Florida @gegsofla

Help welcome this new GEG this June 11th! Bookmark https://bit.ly/GEGSOFLALAUNCH

GEG Brazil Meetup

On May 25, GEG Brazil led a meetup with GEG Leaders to set up strategies to help more educators to move to a digital environment using Google tools. More than 70 leaders joined the discussion - which included how to indicate the most important features of crucial G Suite tools considering teachers, students, and parents without previous experiences, how Google for Education and Official Certifications can support the process, and much more. GEG Brazil will also start a new series of GEG On Air to bring to the community's attention important topics, tips, and experiences that can impact educators positively.

Meetup with GEG leaders in Brazil, on May 25

GEG Kamakura Online Event

5月24日にオンラインイベントを実施しました。
運営スタッフはGoogle認定イノベーター14名を含む62名。日本中から総勢400名以上が「学び、共有し、影響しあい、能力を高める」時間を共に過ごしました。
YouTubeLiveでのオープニングイベントから始まり、ワークショップは全42コマ。
「はじめてのG Suite」から「管理コンソール」まで幅広い学びの場を楽しんで頂けた。
そう名付けて始めた「GEGLANDシリーズ」も2年半で6回目となりました。
さらに進化して７回目を実施すべく、GEG鎌倉は今日も楽しく活動しています。

GEG Kamakura, along with other 15 chapters, delivered an online event on May 24th. 62 staff including 14 Certified Innovators organized a total of 42 sessions. Sessions covered various themes from beginners to IT admins. Overall, over 400 teachers joined online and shared the “Learn. Share. Inspire. Empower.” moment.

Parent Tips for the New Normal Classroom

By Gary Garcia, GEG Ortigas Philippines

Distance Education is the modality for us to continue molding the minds of our students in this pandemic. Parents, teachers, and school administrators have different concerns that revolve around how distance learning will work. I was invited by fellow GEG Ortigas leader to give tips to parents about the new normal classroom.

After preparing my slides I realized that we have to be reminded of the basics, that we as parents are the first teachers of our children. Parents should reflect on our values system. Parents should model what we want them to teach.

Distance education is student-centered learning, students themselves need to learn life-skills. Our values system must be in place.

Check out the presentation here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xeIsQinEjwBNkUUcPrpBwwyvn5e13UBfBwDPk0VMqlY/edit?usp=sharing

Teaching Online Feedback

Noise cancellation added to Google Meet

To minimize distractions while #RemoteTeaching, Google are rolling out noise cancellation, which filters out background noises such as keyboard typing, dog barks, and other sounds. Learn more: http://goo.gle/34Xg3pm.

This is one of the four recent updates being rolled out.

• Expanded tile view which allows you to see 16 participants at once
• Low light level which use AI to make you more visible - rolling out on browsers soon
• Present higher-quality video content with audio: if you need to display high-quality video with audio
• Noise cancellation

Talk to people outside of your domain in Google Chat

Starting May 26th, you’ll be able to start conversations in Google Chat (previously known as “Hangouts Chat”) with people outside of your domain. You’ll be able to do this by either sending a direct message or adding them to rooms.

Conversations with external users in classic Hangouts will also appear in Chat as new messages are sent. Learn more.