Showing posts with label professional development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label professional development. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2015

Texthelp Announces Teach for Google - free PD to help educators use Google Edu



Texthelp, a language and literacy support software company, has just announced Teach for Google, a new, online, professional development resource for educators. It is designed to help educators use Google Apps for Education to increase student achievement.

Teach for Google has short courses containging how-to videos, tips and tricks, checklists, templates and more to help teachers not only learn about Google Apps, but how to use them effectively in the classroom.

The free version has 2 courses available as well as lots of how-to's for individual Google Apps.


The Related Videos Section has how-to videos about Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms and Drawings.

You can also pay to access more courses.


Texthelp is the company behind Read&Write for Google, a very popular app used in Education.





Related:

Google for Education Resources

Google App and Chromebooks Resources - learn how to better use them

Resources to get Started With Google Apps and Chromebooks


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Thursday, March 12, 2015

More Cool Events coming up from EdChat Interactive

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EdChat Interactive is a new type of free, online PD brought to you by some of the same folks who created #echat twitter discussions, including Tom Whitby and Steven Anderson, who are both friends of mine and in my Personal Learning Network and great educators.

They created it as a way for educators to share and learn the best ideas, practices and techniques that are working in schools. Their events are interactive and social and very well done.

Previous events are archived on the site.

They have just announced some new events:

Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00 PM Eastern time (5:00 Pacific time)

Edchat Interactive Founders, Steven W. Anderson and Tom Whitby will conduct a fast-paced discussion on education through a global lens. Fresh off a trip to a large conference in Dubai, Steven and Tom will examine what issues face education globally and how we can think more globally about issues facing education in the US. Register here.



Wednesday, March 25 at 8:00 PM Eastern time (5:00 Pacific time)

Edupreneur Ginger Lewman will lead us in discussing Why aren't all educators embracing authentic learning-by-doing and project/problem based learning? And what, if anything, should we do about it? More here.


Related:

Edchat Interactive - a new type of free, online PD that is relevant, timely, interactive and social




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