Issue No. 54 | Date: September 25, 2020

Thank you all for your amazing work. We know you are super busy, but when you have a few minutes, please use this Form to send in a 200-300 word write up, celebrating any event you are particularly proud of, adding a screenshot or photo. GEG leaders, if you are supporting new GEGs to launch please ensure they know about this form (It’s pinned in the GEG Program Twitter account) We can then all celebrate your successes together in the newsletter.


Trainers of the Month - Congratulations to you both





J.D. Williams (NA)
GEG Arizona leader



Brian Host (Australia) 
Member of GEG Mid North Coast & GEG Global

Welcome to the new GEGs

These new GEGs would welcome some followers so please help them out where you can:

GEG Querétaro @GEGQueretaro and GEG Jaguare @GEGJaguare both joined Twitter in August 2020 so please support them.

Montana goes Google

The GEG Montana leadership team is focusing on supporting educators, students, and families through professional development, collaboration, and sharing Google Educational tools. If you would like to join the new Google Group please send a request to https://groups.google.com/g/gegmontana and you may also follow GEG Montana on Twitter @MontanaGeg. GEG Montana is preparing for their launch later this Fall so be sure to follow all the excitement!

Introducing GEG Mentors for Brazil

GEG Brazil proudly announces 8 GEG Mentors for the region: Giuliano Paulino Coan (GEG Americana), Raphael Mota (GEG Duque de Caxias), Diogo Mendes (GEG Ijuí), Paulo Henrique Sousa (GEG Uberaba), Rafael Vasconcelos (GEG Florianópolis), Graziela München (GEG Joinville), Ana Laura Queiroz (GEG Joinville) and Eduardo Souza (GEG Monte Carmelo). They are already supporting new and experienced leaders within the program. Mentors, thanks for your dedication to the GEG community!

sites.google.com/google.com/gegleaderportal/building-a-community/contact-geg-mentors

GEG Mandaluyong Relaunch

GEG Mandaluyong, formed in February 21, 2015, recently relaunched its community with the support of the Mandaluyong District in the Philippines. The group introduced its leaders and core members. They also shared how teachers can join the community @GEGMandaluyong

The recorded livestream can be watched here:

https://web.facebook.com/gegmandaluyong/videos/715750659268526

GEGMichigan is proud to present the GEG Games of October 2020!

Submissions are due by October 16, 2020! The SLAM will occur be between October 19 - October 23, 2020 During the SLAM you will get your chance to enjoy lots of short, quality videos while voting for your favourites. Four finalists will be chosen to compete in a Final Four Slam! The winner will win ultimate bragging rights as well as some goodies.

Entry form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeamsGVLHMnua6v-BGx_nBHJwgt0JTLCrCuVaueikKm8raD5w/viewform

GEG SoCal Book Study Twitter Chat

GEG SoCal hosted a Twitter Chat Book Study the entire month of September. We read and chatted about The Distance Learning Playbook by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie. Each Tuesday for one hour we are chatted about different modules and our interpretation of the book for distance learning. Catch up on our chat using the #DLPlaybook.

GEG SoCal Hosted a Collaboration Mini-Series

During the month of August, GEG SoCal hosted a month-long mini-series focused on collaboration in a digital classroom. We shared the purpose behind the collaboration, how to monitor collaboration, and left teachers thinking about their own definition of collaboration in a virtual setting. Each week we introduced new GSFE tools for collaboration in the classroom.

GEG Brazil On Air #25

Enhancing blended learning with Google for Education tools was the subject of the 25th GEG On Air. Giuliano Paulino (GEG Americana Leader, GEG Mentor and Google Trainer), Gilmara dos Santos (GEG Joinville Leader) and Rafael Vasconcelos (GEG Florianópolis Leader, GEG Mentor, Google Trainer and Google Innovator) shared their experiences and suggestions regarding Rotational Model, Studying with different platforms to explore new opportunities and prototyping. You can watch it on demand here and have access to all detailed content in this shared doc.

Thanks to everyone involved, including GEG Leaders that organized the meeting notes for this session: Auderlânia Dias (GEG Lavras de Mangabeira), Dilce Vicente (GEG Santo Antônio da Patrulha) and Camila Schwarzer (GEG Porto União).

G Suite for Edu - A boon during Pandemic times

The past 5 plus months have been a very difficult period for everyone including schools all over the world. But, in spite of the difficulties, teachers have reached their students through online connectivity. They tried all possible means and tools to teach their children including Whatsapp, Google Classroom and Meet. The comfort, ease, and completeness they found in GSuite Account for Education were not anywhere else. During this period, I undertook the responsibility of setting up GSuite Accounts for a number of schools from Delhi-NCR, BulandShahr, and Agra and was successful in fully-fledged implementation in eight schools. I conducted GSuite Administrators training and Google Tools training for many teachers. Now, these teachers make use of Google Classroom for posting Quiz, Assignments, and Materials along with day to day live classes on meet. Teachers are also exchanging best practices meets, conducting Parent-Teacher Meetings, departmental meetings, organizing inter/intra-school events, etc. using this platform. GSuite has actually provided all possible tools to conduct everything virtually including the teaching of yoga, music, and dance.

Drive trash to delete after 30 days from October 13

This is an update that you really must make sure your members are aware of. We have been used to Drive files remaining indefinitely in the Bin, but this changes on October 13, 2020. From that date files added to the bin will be deleted after 30 calendar days in the same ways as GMail. Files that are in the bin before October 13, 2020 will be deleted 30 calendar days after.

Seminar: Conexão Nordeste

The seminar Conexão Nordeste (October 6 - 8, 2020) is led by GEG communities in the Northeast of Brazil in partnership with UFRB - Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia. The objective of this event is to empower and value the northeast culture within education; the main theme is “A journey through northeast culture with digital and analogical tools” and the idea is to present pedagogical activities and digital tools within the classroom. The full agenda and registration details are available in the website of the event: https://sites.google.com/view/conexo-nordeste-geg-2020

Lo que la pandemia nos dejó - What the Pandemic left us

@GEGBuenosAires will host "Lo que la pandemia nos dejó" in which along with some awesome #VIA20 Innovators we are going to reflect and share what we learnt with COVID-19 to keep in our teacher's toolkit.

October 10, 2020, 2pm ET, 11am PT.

Register - http://bit.ly/registroGEG

See up to 49 people in Meet

This feature is only available in Meet on the web. By default, the maximum number of tiles you’ll see in auto layouts is 9, and in tiled layouts is 16.

You’ll also be able to use a slider to adjust the number of tiles you see. You may want to increase the maximum when you have a large group or reduce the number of tiles if you have a weak internet connection. Note that the slider adjustments are specific to each meeting, it will reset between each meeting and you can then customize each time. You may also see fewer tiles depending on your window size, as the tiles available will adjust to fit your screen.

These features will be OFF by default. To change your layout, go to Settings > Change layout. Visit our Help Center to learn how to see yourself in a meeting.

GEG Sweden's Google Anywhere School

GEG Sweden’s "Google Anywhere School" summary in Swedish (with English CC), is now available to view on their YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GEGSwedenAnno2014

Welcome to the new GEGs

Well we made it through the summer and are all now settling back into a new routine maybe fully online, hybrid delivery or face to face. Through lockdowns we have seen GEGS grow, collaborate, support thousands of members and encourage new members to join them. We have also seen webinars, new launches, live panels and twitter chats all appearing on GEG Twitter feeds. What a fantastic achievement, well done for all your hard work. This is all amazing work, so when you have a few minutes, please write up a very brief article celebrating any event you are particularly proud of and add a screenshot or photo along with 200 - 330 words to this form. GEG leaders, if you are supporting new GEGs to launch please ensure they know about this form . We can then all celebrate your successes together in the newsletter.

These new GEGs would welcome some followers so please help them out where you can:

@GegArmenia - Colombia

@GEG_Pune India

@GegUdonthani - Thailand

September Google Trainers of the Month

Jose Santander Figueredo

GEG Bolivia

September’s Google Trainer of the Month is Jose Santander Figueredo from GEG Bolivia.

“Jose has done an amazing job in helping organize Bolivian GEGs to train about 100,000 teachers by the Education Ministry!”

Virginia Bond

GEG Global

“Virginia has been training educators how to use Ed Tech for 20+ years. That time has not reduced her energy or passion. She is dedicated to keeping up with changes in the Ed tech landscape and her training sessions are always in touch with what educators need. Her sessions are hands-on and she provides a variety of ways to integrate the highlighted tech tool, often using it in her actual session. I am not a morning person, but Virginia is one person I will set my alarm and get up early for if she’s doing a session.”

Introducing Clube GEG (GEG Club)

This year, GEG Brazil launched Clube GEG. This is a local initiative, for all educators, with different levels of fluency with Google tools and Active Methodologies. It consists of informal meetings to share pedagogical practices, focused on the real and practical use of digital tools according to the meeting subject. On August 18, Meghan Virginia (GEG Salvador) and Rejane Cassiano (GEG Contagem) shared their experiences and suggestions for Google Slides! Thanks to everyone who joined this informal and welcoming way of learning together!

GEG On Air #24

The 24th GEG On Air presented how to create learning trails that can engage and spark students’ curiosity while they are learning. Roberta Taffarello (GEG Vinhedo Leader and Google Certified Educator), Ana Laura Queiroz (GEG Joinville Leader and Google Trainer) and Rejane Cassiano (GEG Contagem Leader and Google Certified Educator) shared their experiences and fantastic suggestions: a space expedition on Google Earth with creative learning, Shopping experience to learn Math, collaborative exercises using Hyperdocs, Interactive trails with multiple endings, and much more! You can watch it on demand here and access the full list of content here (kindly organized by Auderlânia Dias from GEG Lavras da Mangabeira, Gisele Mendes from GEG Jacareí and Caroline Furini from GEG Passo Fundo).

Using Google Meet Effectively

GEG Alaska is delivering a series of webinars on using Google Meet from August 25 - September 15. This looks like a useful series for all GEG members to watch and covers everything from starting a meet to using extensions to enhance a Meet.

Catch up or sign up here https://sites.google.com/view/gegalaska/upcoming-events

GEG Ontario

On Aug 26 GEG Ontario had a live panel discussion for their members on supporting Ontario students on their return to school.

You can watch the webinar here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLdrP9zehA4

GEG Amman August updates

As part of their back to school support, GEG Amman celebrated the Google Updates in this webinar in Arabic and English. 

https://www.youtube.com/c/GEGAmman 

GEG Armenia Teacher Tricks playlist

GEG Armenia is creating a playlist of useful videos for your Spanish speaking members.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhO6aBDcMkpdiquzWMqk7aesw3tgHwxgm