LIVE from Redondo Beach, CA at the sold-out South Bay Summit was Michael Wacker's "30 Forgotten Buckets of Googlicious Awesomeness." Full to the brim with quick ideas for using buckets of Google tools in your pedagogy-- watch above and use the links in his resources below to virtually learn with us. Check www.gafesummit.com for the next summit that's coming near you to see it in real life, and stay tuned on our Global Community for the next EdTechTeam Summit Session on Air!Sure there are those easy targets for awesome. Everyone knows how great +Google for Education +Google Drive ,+Gmail , Calendar, Plus, etc are. But there are so many more hidden gems or strategies for use that need uncovering and time to explore. Let's look at a bunch of these and spend time sharing ways we are using some of these tools in EDU!Presenter:+Michael Wacker Position: Director of PD, Google Certified Teacher, Google Certified TrainerOrganization: EdTechTeamLocation: ColoradoContact Email: michael@edtechteam.comWebsite: http://www.edtechteam.com/A former elementary teacher, Michael has since served as an Online Learning Specialist, Online/Hybrid PD Coordinator, Blended Learning Manager,  and Curriculum Developer/Designer. With more than five years of progressively responsible experience in eLearning and Blended Learning, he is consulted around ideas of strategic design and innovation in public and private schools internationally to support the professional development and redesign of classrooms, pedagogy, and traditional instructional models, to better serve all learners. Michael's strengths are in helping to maximize learning opportunities through the design of dynamic spaces (online and face to face) of interaction, inquiry, and engagement for students, teachers, and administrators. Dedicated to educational innovation, he strives to utilize best practice eLearning techniques and leverage a pedagogy and technology that allows for anywhere, anytime learning.

Holly Clark shared her great session, "Critical Thinking and the Web: Search Strategies in a Google Infused World" LIVE from Homer, Illinois at the sold-out Illinois Summit in June. Watch the archived video above, and view the resources and read the transcript below. Stay tuned for more Sessions on Air in the future!SlidesTranscript Available Here

We were so fortunate to sit in on Jim Sill's live EdTechTeam South Carolina Summit Session on Air today live from South Carolina! As Jim enjoyed his South Carolina Sweet Tea, he took viewers from around the world-- around the world! Check out his resources and watch the archived event above. Stay tuned for our next Summit Session on Air soon!Take your lessons around the globe with Google’s MyMaps. Jim Sill, a member of Google Geo Education Advisory Board, will show you how to can engage students with map building. Discover a great way to create, collaborate, and publish on +Google Maps. We will dig into the tools that help you import data from +Google Drive, measure distances, create multimedia placemarks and develop geo literacies across the curriculum. Be inspired to try it yourself with real examples from real teachers.Presenter:+Jim Sill Position: Director of Regional DevelopmentOrganization: EdTechTeamLocation: AustraliaContact Email: jim@edtechteam.comAfter almost a decade in the video and television industry, Jim Sill hung up his producer hat and embarked on a career in education. Using his industry experience, he created an award winning video production program at El Diamante High School in Visalia, CA. By involving students in real world video projects, they garnered awards and recognition at the local, state, and national level. With experience producing local television and industrial videos for non-profit organizations, many of his former students now work in the industry.As a Google Certified Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Education Trainer and Apple Certified Trainer, Jim leads professional development workshops on Google’s collaborative tools, social media, and video production.  In 2012, Jim was featured in Edutopia and their Teach2Learn series for his work in Building Career Skills in Video Production. He was also awarded The Computer Using Educator (CUE) Outstanding Teacher Award in 2009 and nominated for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Outstanding Teacher Award. 

How much time do we spend each day on Google Chrome, emailing, searching for resources, communicating with parents and students? Make more time for the good stuff by using some of these time-saving tricks with Chrome's tabs, brought to you by the always-knowledgable Monica Martinez on our team.Check out our 10 Things You MUST Start Doing with Tabs! Which have you done? Which do you think are going to be your new go-to functions?Want more Google Chrome love? Check out Lisa Thumann's LIVE Session On Air this Thursday in Riverside, CA at 1pm Pacific for "Drive it Home with Chrome!"

Google recently released the new EDU Training Center, and we've been excited to be a part of these programs and help educators prepare to become a part of the community!We know it's a lot to process, so please join us in watching the archive of "The 411 on Google's Educator Certifications" with Monica Martinez!   Presentation Slides   Doc Q and A Transcript We hope you take your Level 1 and 2 Educator Exams, prepare for the Trainer application that just opened, and stay tuned for when the first Innovator Academy will take place! Let us know if you have any questions and we look forward to hosting another EdTechTeam On Air session soon focusing on the Trainer Application! If you're interested in learning more, request a Trainer Bootcamp in your neighborhood or join us at an upcoming Summit!

Google Chrome is full of amazing Easter Eggs and Goodies, and Lisa Thumann took us through a whole truckload of them in her "Drive it Home with Chrome" session LIVE from the Riverside, California Summit!  Check out her resources here, and watch the archive below.

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Nick Leffler shared a tweet of mine in his blog post Community Advice for New Bloggers. It's a great post. And I say that because it got me thinking. Not many posts that I read, or write for that matter, do that any more. In fact I reflected so deeply on the post that I felt moved to blog here again. I haven't posted here in a while and the few posts that I have done have been few and far

by Dan Butin, Huffington Post This is exciting in many ways. For we actually know a lot about how teaching and learning works and, in an ideal world, can begin talking about how to move from the "flipped classroom" model of education to a "flipped university" model. But the scary part is that technological advancements keep [...]

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