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!