You’re invited to the SWE19 cohort graduation

Friends, family members, fellow educators, and GEG members and Trainers, the SWE19 cohort of Google Certified Innovators are pleased to welcome you to their graduation, project launches, and networking event!

Google Sweden, Kungsbron 2, 111 22 Stockholm, Sweden

Friday, 8th November, 15:30.
Agenda: 3:30pm Arrive & get settled
4pm: Pitches and graduation begins, learn about Google's certification programs
5pm: Hors d'ouvres, champagne, tour, and networking

Interested in joining us? Please RSVP here by Nov. 1st

Freebies

There have been some awesome freebies for Educators, Trainers and Innovators offered recently. Please make sure your GEG members haven’t missed out.

• Google Partner CLearning is offering an extended trial of the full EDU version of Soundtrap to all Innovators and Trainers which will integrate brilliantly with Google Classroom. To get your account setup, go to www.soundtrap.com/edu/promo and enter the code clearning90.
• Pear Deck is offering Google Certified Educators, Innovators, and Trainers complementary Pear Deck Premium access for the 2019-2020 school year (value of $149). Click here to learn more about Pear Deck! With Premium for the Pear Deck add-on, easily attain real-time formative assessment through interactive question types and deliver powerful learning moments to every student straight form Google Slides. To learn more and claim Premium access, simply head to the Pear Deck Google Certified page and enter the password: welovegoogle. After submitting form information, please allow the Pear Deck team 2 weeks to upgrade your account. *Only available to new users who do not currently have a Premium Account individually or through their school or district.
• BookCreator is offering all Google Certified Trainers & Innovators a lifetime upgrade to the web version of Book Creator. You will get 3 libraries with 60 books in each (180 total), real-time collaboration and be able to invite co-teachers to join your library. Sign up for BookCreator

What’s not to love about these offers! Try them out and share on social media what you and your GEG members have done with them.

GEG Ohio

GEG Ohio are continuing their online monthly meetings. The next Virtual meeting is on October 31st through a live Google Hangout video conference and broadcast.

The purpose is to:

• Connect Google-using educators in and around Ohio
• Share the latest Google Apps news and features from the last month
• Provide tutorials, demonstrations, and how-to’s
• Share best practices of how Google Apps is being used within the districts
• Ask questions and get answers

GEG APAC Connect - Live Event

GEG leaders from the Asia Pacific hosted their first multi-language training last October 13. Nine YouTube live streams covering English, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malay, Tamil, Korean, Filipino, and Nepalese were hosted by GEG leaders across Asia. This initiative started with GEG leaders connecting monthly since April 2019 to share best practices and culminated with the first Asia Live session. They intend to do this at least once a month to share with more teachers how they use technology in the classroom. Watch the video from October 13th, 2019 and choose your preferred language from the listed recordings.

With a total of over 2,200 combined views (at the time of writing!) across 9 languages let’s hope this is an event that can be replicated!

Special mention goes to Nathan Gildart of GEG Nagoya. Nathan had experienced greater participation in YouTube Live GEG events locally, and shared this with the GEG APAC leaders. With lots of support form APAC GEG Leaders (and another special mention to Gary Garcia - GEG Ortigas) the event was launched.

GEG Brazil Live about Data Studio

On October 7, GEG Brazil presented a live meeting about Data Studio. Ned Lindau, Cloud Solutions Lead, shared ideas of how Data Studio can be used on Education to help teachers with valuable information to make more accurate decisions as well as successful cases using the tool. Marcelo Camargo joined to share his great knowledge about Data Studio in Portuguese. Watch the full video here. Data Studio holds great potential for unlocking the data educators collect in schools and communicating it to their stakeholders.

GEG Nagoya’s Pub Night

GEG Nagoya in Japan recently held a Pub Night! Participants deepened their understanding on how to use Gmail for organization, efficiency, and communication. Also on the bill was a demonstration of Google Classroom, a popular topic to be addressed again in the near future. GEG Nagoya has also been reaching out to those who cannot attend face-to-face events with a 6-episode YouTube Live series on a range of topics, and part of a new initiative from GEGs in the Asia-Pacific region to leverage YouTube to collaborate on online events in multiple languages. Have a look at www.gegnagoya.com!

Preparing Google Certified Educators in Brazil

GEG Imperatriz in Brazil organized local meetings with educators to prepare them for the Google Educator Level 1 Certification. We are looking forward to welcoming this new group as Certified Educators!