Episode 14 ~ Back to Basics & That Darn Terms Of Use

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Show News:

• GWPodcast Listener Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15

Show Highlights:

Back to Basics: 

• Google's Core Suite: gMail, Calendar, Documents, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Sites
• Google's Extended family: Youtube, Blogger, Reader, and more
• gMail vs Google Apps
• Google Hardware

What's New:

• Resources to support a new and open world for learning
• Google+ now open to age 13 and older
• Interview with President Obama

Apps of the Week:

• From the Marketplace: OpenClass
• From the Chrome Web Store: IssueBrner
• Android App: gTalk Status Widget

Universal Deign Learning:  Starts at 15:21

• If I won the lottery what would my school look like
• Interactive white board & 1:1
• Alternative learning day for both teachers and students
• Cooperate Internship Program: info on MSJ's CIP program
• Hire forward thinking teachers
• "Teaching Change" as a skill
• Brain Based Learning: no two people have the same physical connections in the brain, and therefore no two people learn the same.
• Sir Ken Robinson's RSA Animate Changein Education Paradigms:
• "To understand the world you would need to be able to learn... To change the world you need to be able to share your understanding" my modification of a quote.

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Episode 13 ~ If I Could Travel In Time, I'd Visit...

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Show News:

• GWPodcast Listener Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15
• Added Google resource link
• http://elementopie.com/
• Addition of Universal Design Learning

Show Highlights:

What's New: 

• New email management features for Google Apps administrators: Improved email compliance footers, approved/blocked sender lists and file attachment policies
• More control for delegated and secondary domain administrators 
• Log Analyzer, Message Header Analyzer and other Support tools now available to Google Apps administrators 
• Improvements to the Gmail offline Chrome app 
• Google is taking a hard look at products that replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we had hoped for or can’t be properly integrated into the overall Google experience. 
• Doodle 4 Google ~ Due by March 20 
• Your Interview with President Obama

What's Current:

• Remove Formatting

Apps of the Week:

• From the Marketplace: SlideRocket
• From the Chrome Web Store: Offline Google Mail
• Android App: Lama Location Profiles
• Thank you Niilo Alhovaara for the suggestion:  Google+ | Blog

Universal Deign Learning:  Starts at 19:30

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Episode 12 ~ Search + or Search -

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Show News:

• Concept Mapping Software Webinar: January 19th at 3:30 est USA
• VTEd Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15

Show Highlights:

What's New: 

• Search, plus Your World

What's Current:

• http://scholar.google.com/

Apps of the Week:

• From the Marketplace: MinDomo
• From the Chrome Web Store: Cycling Through Alps
• Android App: BeyondPod
• Thank you Niilo Alhovaara for the suggestion:  Google+ | Blog

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Episode 11 ~ Keeping Up With The 2012 U.S. Election And Organize Those Tasks

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Show News:

• Concept Mapping Software Webinar: January 19th at 3:30 est USA
• VTEd Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15
• Call for presenters for Dynamic Landscapes
• Thank You listeners we the show has gotten over 5000 hits since Novenber 2011
• Info about my new Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and Android 4 (ICS - Ice Cream Sandwich)

Show Highlights:

What's New: 

• New look becomes default on Tuesday Jan 10th
• Keeping up with the 2012 U.S. Elections: ~  http://www.google.com/elections/
• Computer Science for High School: ~ Http://cs4hs.com/

What's Current:

• Google Tasks

Apps of the Week:

• From the Marketplace: ExamGeneral
• From the Chrome Web Store: WiBit

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VTEd Hangout Feb 6th @ 3:15est

The First GWPodcast VTEd Google Hangout.

How is your school using Google Apps?

February 6th at 3:15est, hosted by the Google Weekly Podcast.  

Hangout will be recorded and posted to the GWPodcast.

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Go Vermont!!!

Episode 10 ~ Learning Management Systems with Superintendent Dan French

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Show Highlights:

What's New: 

• Several administrative APIs now available to all Google Apps editions
• The Muppets Rock Out in a Google+ Hangout

Interview:

• Dan French 
• Superintendent for the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union in Manchester, Vermont
• President of the Vermont Superintendents Association
• Vermont-Education Diigo Group
• Twitter hash: #vted

Apps of the Week

• From the Marketplace: Haiku
• From the Chrome Web Store: Autocadws

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