Google Teacher Newsletter - the Breakthrough Learning Edition
Welcome to the fall, teachers! Or for you East-Coasters like me, welcome to
what feels like an early winter. We've got lots to report in this issue of
our teacher newsletter, including open applications for our next Google
Teacher Academy, live broadcast info for our education forum – Breakthrough
Learning in a Digital Age, and more on Google Apps Education Edition,
including a pre-recorded webinar with a school success story. So without
further ado, let's get started.
We're excited to announce that Google is hosting Breakthrough Learning in a
Digital Age: http://www.google.com/events/digitalage, a large education
forum on October 27th and 28th. In what's sure to be a spirited couple of
days of discussion, Google, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop,
and Common Sense Media, together with our title sponsor, the MacArthur
Foundation will welcome 200 of the nation's top thought-leaders in
education, policy, media, research and philanthropy to brainstorm methods to
"refresh and reboot" American global leadership in education. By harnessing
the largely untapped potential of digital media, we will work to create and
act upon a breakthrough strategy for scaling-up effective models of teaching
and learning for children. We know this topic is very close to your hearts,
so we invite you to join our live broadcast on the 27th at:
http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=72855 and on
the 28th at:
http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=72857.
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/brkthrulearning, read our blog:
http://breakthroughlearning.blogspot.com/ and, be sure to send us your
questions, ideas and feedback both before, during and after the Forum at our
Google Moderator page: http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=c77db. The panel
discussions throughout the day will be shaped by the most popular questions
posted and voted on at that Moderator page, so please be sure to get
involved!
You asked for it, so we're bringing it - a Google Teacher Academy:
http://www.google.com/educators/gta to a city we've yet to visit - this time
around, Washington, D.C. Applications are open today for our next GTA which
will take place on Wednesday, December 9th from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. The
Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience
designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies.
Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on
experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about
innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with
colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment.
Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who
share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region. The
GTA is open to teachers all over the world, but participants must pay for
their own travel and lodging, if necessary. Apply here by midnight of
Monday, November 9th:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFc3NWtCcVZXT0tLcEFQ...
Thinking about switching to Google Apps for your school or district? On
October 6, Google Apps Education Edition hosted a webinar with Maine
Township High School District. Maine Township gave a presentation on how
they saved $35,000 by switching 7,000 accounts to Google Apps. They
discussed why they made the switch and the results they have seen so far.
You can watch a recording of their presentation and the Q&A session here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrq0OMiKmXA. You can also read the Q&A
Transcript and see links to the presentation and audience questions here:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddv49vkt_34c7tr86fj.
We have this webinar and more available with other resources at the new
Google Apps Resource Center:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/resource_center.html<http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/resource_center.html#utm_cam...>
To get you even more excited about Google Apps, we thought it might be
helpful to show you how some teachers are using the tools for teaching:
www.google.com/apps/eduresources<http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/lesson_plans.html#utm_campai...>but
we'd also like to open up the lesson plans to anybody who has a great
idea of using Apps in the classroom. Tell us about your lesson plan with
this submission form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&zx=124702...
Phew - well we think we've given you enough to digest in this issue. We
hope to "see" you on October 27th and 28th during our broadcast and hope to
get your feedback at our moderator page. And maybe we'll see you in DC,
too. You'll hear from us again early next year. Till then, have a safe,
happy and healthy holiday season.
Cheers,
Cristin Frodella
Google Product Marketing Manager
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