Google apps for edu video podcast: Recent Episodes
Mike Reading; Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps For Education Certified Trainer, and Edutech specialist
Mike Reading keeps you up to date with what is happening with Google Apps for education. Tune in to hear expert teachers share their best tips and tricks as well as keep up with Google updates that affect teachers, students and businesses. This Edtech video podcast will cover the range of Google tools including Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Calendar, and more. As part of the show we focus on how these Google tools can increase student engagement and student motivation and improve educational outcomes.
How to use the best features of Google Classroom and Teacher Dashboard together so that you can get the best results and the outcomes for your students.
Some of the things we can do:
0:56 Change the size of the video, include a border, change the title 1:18 You can go back to properties anytime to edit it 1:25 Change settings and justification, wrap text or delete the video
After saving the changes, 1:37 Youtube gets embedded
Youtube for Schools 1:58 For using Youtube in schools, you can check www.YouTube.com/schools 2:17 Removes comments and ads, a much cleaner interface 2:25 With Educational quality videos
Youtube Channel 2:51 Upload video 2:57 Change privacy to unlisted so it's not searcheable in the Youtube database 2:58 Share URL to students 3:31 Create different playlist
In this Hangout on Air Adam Naor (head of Chromebooks for EDU Asia Pacific) and Mike Reading (Google Certified Teacher & Trainer from Teachers Training International) discuss why Chromebooks are such great tools for schools that are using, or considering the use of Google Apps For Education.
In this Hangout, Adam demonstrates the Chrome management console and Mike discusses Chrome Web Apps and how to use them in the classroom.
A quick demonstration of how you can use Google Forms to create a self grading assessment.
In this short video, Mike from http://www.googleappsforedu.com shows you two of his favourite Gmail labs features. These features make it easy for you to interact with your email.