Issue No. 55

It’s newsletter time again and we are seeing many new GEGs launched and a huge increase in collaboration across the world. It’s wonderful to see articles featuring more areas of the globe coming through now, so thank you for taking the time to send them in. I know some of you have asked for events to be announced in the newsletter, but unfortunately sometimes there isn’t enough notice given to get them in before the event happens. We try our best, but if you could give as much notice as possible that will help enormously. Then don’t forget the important wrote up after the event has happened so we can all share in your success. Keep up the great work.

Welcome to the new GEGs

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

@GEGPune, @GegJaguare, and @GegObregon all joined Twitter recently so would appreciate your support.

GEG Kenya: Bringing The Benefits of Technology to Schools, Classrooms and Communities

The Kenya national newspaper, The Daily Nation, wrote that Google Classroom is now the most used educational platform in Kenya. The Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA), which aims  to build the capacity of mathematics and science teachers for effective classroom practices in Sub-Saharan Africa adopted Google Classroom for its continuous teacher capacity building.

When the Kenyan government closed schools in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an urgent need to continuously support the GEG Kenya community through remote and distance learning modes and initiatives. As a result, GEG Kenya members, leaders and other education coalition partners collectively organized bi-weekly edWebinars via Google Meet, to help mitigate the effects of COVID-19 pandemic

GEG Kenya has seen tremendous growth in other various chapters and communities across Kenya : GEG Nairobi, GEG Mombasa, GEG Nakuru, GEG Kiambu, and GEG Laikipia respectively.

The GEGs are led by an enthusiastic and inspiring team of Instructional Technology Coaches, notably: Bernadette Kiarie, Rosemary Onyancha, Michael Njogu, Grace Irungu, Samuel Mwangi, Clarice Bwanga and Fred Sagwe.

GEG Kenya, also collaborated with the American Spaces (Moi University-Nairobi Campus) to offer GSuite for Education virtual edWebinars to empower their members.

Read the full article here https://medium.com/@gegkenya2015/google-educator-groups-kenya-bringing-the-benefits-of-technology-to-schools-classrooms-and-7289f88e9179 

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

GEGs on Twitter

So many new GEG launches and many now using Twitter as a platform. This is really taking off now from when we tried to encourage GEGs to move across last year. Some GEGs are still in their early days and would benefit from some followers so please support each other by giving a follow and share their posts. We will add a few each newsletter.

@MontanaGEG

@GEGPennsylvania

@gegcuritaba

@GegObregon

@CampecheGeg

@GEGAlaska

@GEGwestBangkok

@GegZimbabwe

@GegItalia

@GegKenya

@GegLagos

@GEGDutse

@GEG_SanLuis

GEG South Florida - Blended Learning

GEG South Florida and Tanya Avrith on July 31 from 1-2pm EST held the “Blended learning strategies in a Google Infused Classroom” training. The session is designed to help teachers with tips, tricks, and strategies for the upcoming school year. This looks like an important one to get out to your members so they are ready.

Watch the recorded video here: bit.ly/GEGsoflaGoogleInfused

Teaching Online Feedback

GEG SoCal - Collaboration Mini Series

GEG SoCal Presents their first ever mini-series on Collaboration! The four 30 minute sessions are co-hosted by Karen Lagola @kklagola & Becky Colling @TechWithBecky from 7:00-7:30 PM PDT on August 3, 10, 17, and 24!

Meet Link: https://bit.ly/AugMiniSeries

How to Engage Students in STEM Virtually and in The Classroom

GEG Colorado and GEG Texas recently held a webinar on how to engage students in STEM virtually and in the classroom. Check out the recording here: https://youtu.be/_TluqeSgKSI

The (Google) Suite Life with Schoology

Join Tiffany LoSasso, a Digital Teacher Librarian, Google Certified Trainer, & Schoology Ambassador, to explore how Schoology & Google Suite work together to help students & teachers!

Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/9odE02M5_Z4

Gamifying with Google for Education

The 22nd GEG On Air was broadcasted on July 29 with the theme gamifying with Google for Education. The GEG Leaders Alice Turibio (GEG São José dos Campos), Auderlânia Dias (GEG Lavras de Mangabeira), Vânia Flores (GEG Varginha) and Sue Cons (GEG Caxias do Sul) explained what gamification is and shared amazing examples of ready to use activities using Google Sheets, Drawings, Forms, Slides and many other tips and strategies you can use to engage and excite your students even more. You can watch it here or access the full list of previous recordings.

André Gomes (GEG Olinda), Gisele Aquino Mendes (GEG Jacareí), Adriana Chagas (GEG Natal), Rejane Meneses (GEG Contagem) and Thiago Nunes (GEG Feira Nova) kindly consolidated and main info and links in this shared document.

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

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/.