Cyclone hosted an afterschool Google Education Roadshow in Tauranga today. Always useful to go along to these type of events, not only to try and win a spot prize (a Chrome cast was given away today), but you also usually meet someone interesting or pick up some tips. Here’s my takeaways:
- In the Admin console, you can configure a bookable resource calendar eg school van, theatre etc
- Use a Google Form as interactive newsletter. You can know add quite a bit of content (video, images, text etc) and if you add in a few questions related to this content you will be able to get some feedback from your readers/parents.
- Google Apps for Education Core services are ad free and user data is not collected. Additional services (including Blogger and Google+) have ads and data is collected. Privacy/user agreements should be signed for these services.
- Use Blogger for teacher portfolio using tags for each of the PTCs. There is also a Blogger App for mobile devices to capture evidence in class.
- Chrome apps for learning Maori language :Nga Tapuae Tuatahi, Ngā Tapuae Tuarua
- Use Screencastify to give feedback to a student about their assignment. Rather than write long and detailed comments, record a short screencast (which will automatically save to Drive), shorten the link (using Goo.gl) and add this link as comment on student document. Here’s a link to a more detail description.
