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Attending the Google for Education Moonshot Summit

I am lucky enough to be attending the Google for Education Moonshot Summit in Amsterdam. This a special event which is organised by Google for Education. This event is an invitation-only, special event that brings together innovative teachers and education leaders from around the world to design education-focussed ‘moonshot’ projects that move education forward.

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Engage your audience with blogs

Enable email post links and sharing buttons – this allows someone to click a button associated with a blog post in order to email it to others. These tips are really useful because you can establish a routine with your class blog where students, once they’ve posted to it, can email their parents/caregivers.

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How to use Google Drive offline

Learning how to use Google Drive offline is an important feature within the Google Apps system to understand, especially if you are a person who travels a lot to places with unreliable wifi connectivity. Read this post to learn about offline mode in Google Drive…

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4 tips for teaching digital citizenship

Teaching digital citizenship is a critical aspect of being a future focussed educator. This article was featured on the Christchurch Connected Educators’ blog as part of Connected Educators’ Month in New Zealand. It describes a teaching sequence I led at Seven Oaks School where we initiated some learning about cyber-citizenship.

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GEG NZ spotlight from the classroom

This latest GEG NZ Spotlight From the Classroom is focussed on the questions from the community. These questions have been grouped into these themes: Personalising learning Google Cardboard Using Google Plus and Google Hangouts Google Classroom An overview of and invite to the inaugural NZ Student Summit A big shout out to the guest speakers Angela Lee and Lisa Squire for their wonderful contributions. Also thanks to Nick Major for…

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How sharing works in Google

In this video describing how sharing works for Google Docs, the Google team explain how we used to share files prior to Google Apps (now called G Suite). These ideas also apply to the sharing of other aspects within the Google ecosystem.

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