Google Weekly: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

GWPodcast 27: EduOnAir Promo Hangout

Thank you:
- Bjorn Behrendt, IT Coordinator, E. Wallingford, Vermont, Google+ , website, Twitter, Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, Session 5
- Eric Curts, Technology Director, Uniontown, Ohio, USA, Google+ , website, Twitter, Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4
- Kern Kelley, Education Technologist, Maine, USA, Google+, website, Twitter, Session 1, Session 2
- Allison Mollica, Instructional Technology Facilitator, Sunapee, New Hampshire, USA Google+ , website, Twitter, Session

I just found this Chrome App that allows for screencasting on a Chromebook, but it is very bata: http://goo.gl/h3OoH

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Friday, April 27, 2012

How to enable Google Drive Screencast and some changes or features you will see

Compliments of my 8th grade shadow student today, here are some screencast of how to enable Google Drive and some of the changes you will see with it.

Enable Google Drive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKjvl0Swbww

Changes and features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIvH8oFxiA

Never Stop Learning

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

GWPodcast 26: Google Sites with Julie Sharma

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Host: Bjorn Behrendt
Co-Host: Jake Kinsman
Guest: Julie Sharma

Show News:
- Edu On-Air Conference (#eduonair)
- Presenters Circle

What's New in Google:

- Admins can Disable End-User Forwarding
- G-Mail “Compact” Density
- Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange Interop
- Accessibility improvements to Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites
- Street view in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa
- Images from Life Magazine and Stock Images

Google sites:

- Guest: Julie Sharma: G+, Email
- https://sites.google.com/site/julie1schlafersharma/Teaching

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: SlideRocket

- Chrome: SlideRocket

- Android: Jump Desktop

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

GWPodcast 25: Google On-Air Conference May 2nd and Haiku Learning Management System

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Show News:
- Guest Co-Host Eric Curts; Email, Twitter, G+, www

- The State Of Tech Podcast

What's New in Google:

- Google's Free On-Air Conference
- My Presentations: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, Session 5
- Eric's Presentations: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4

Interview with Anthony Showalter of Haiku:

- Anthony Showalter: Email
- Haiku Google Apps Marketplace
- Haiku Website

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Lucidchart

- Chrome: Desmos

- Android:

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

GWPodcast 24: A student’s perspective

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Co-host:
- Jake Kinsman
- Email
- Unedited On-Air Hangout video

What's New in Google:

- Account Activity. Accounts => Products

- http://www.googleartproject.com/
- How we’re making even more 3D video available on YouTube
- Google Apps for Schools Webinar Series

Interview:

Jake is a senior at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. The school went 1:1 with iPads this year and rolled out Google Apps. We talk about his experience from the perspective of a student.

In prepping for the show Jake had so much great content that we decided to break up the show into 3 different sections; this one on the students perspective, another on a device shootout, and a third talking about Google Sites.

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Smartsheet

- Chrome: Capture to Cloud

- Android: Handy Scanner Pro

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