Taiwan Summit

This is a sandbox session designed to help attendees learn about the power of extensions, apps, and add-ons for Google Chrome and Drive, as well as providing a brief overview of Google+. The session will focus on their uses in and out of classroom environments.

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Ideal for teachers who want to create custom stories, badges (for completing a form, exit ticket.e.c.t), and certificates (could be for a class, finishing a course e.t.c.). 

This session is geared for Teachers, School Administrator (Principal, Dean, Superintendent)    Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~ Getting geeky, General Audience ~ All Levels

As educators, we all need to develop various means to obtain feedback from students, yet ensuring that learning remains fun, relevant and engaging. This session will touch on the array of free ICT and web tools which can be used in class. Learn to master the various dashboards relevant to your teaching disciplines to capture and analyse students' learning.

This session is geared for Teachers, Beginners - Getting Started, New to Google, Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~  Getting geeky

• What does it mean to be a Google school?

  • We start from the basics and take a high level look at what it means to be a Google school

  • We explain how Google Apps for Education works, what Apps are included in the ‘core suite’ and what other ‘non core’ Google Apps you can use

  • We cover a lot of basic stuff to be sure all attendees are starting from the same level such as: Do you need a Google Server? Can you use Google in your school if you are running on a MS base? Do all students need an account on your domain? Can one teacher run Google Classroom if we are not a Google School? etc. etc.

• How can Google help me and our leadership team in our jobs?

  • This is where we get into Forms, shared Docs, research, etc. We focus in on the best practices for using Google Drive and Docs specifically for school management with specific examples of using forms, spreadsheets and more

  • We also look at using Google tools for:

    • Leadership teams

    • Accreditation (for example by CIS WASC and NEASC which is something schools go through every 5 and 10 years and with Google Apps this process has become much more efficient and effective)

    • Work flows, meeting minutes

    • Structure and Google Drive folder expectations and protocols

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1. Intro: What is Google Apps Admin?
   1. What does it mean to be an administrator
   2. What can you do that other users can’t do
2. How to access, navigate and customize the admin control panel
   1. The 3 ways to access the admin control panel
   2. Getting around the menus (explain there is multiple ways to do the same task in Admin)
   3. Customizing the admin home screen
3. Users
   1. Create multiple users from a spreadsheet
   2. Create a user manually
   3. Suspend a user
   4. Transfer docs from a user
   5. Sub organizations
      1. Create sub orgs for teachers and students
      2. create sub sub orgs for year started (cohort)
      3. Move student to a different sub org
4. Google Apps
   1. Settings for email
      1. Set up Labs
      2. Enable offline gmail
      3. Set up filtering on ‘Objectionable content’ keywords
      4. Blocking email for a younger student sub org
   2. Settings for calendar
      1. Enable Calendar labs
      2. Creating a resource calendar
   3. Settings for Drive
      1. Internal or external sharing
      2. Offline Drive
   4. Settings for Classroom
      1. Managing the verified teacher list
   5. Settings for Sites
      
      1. Internal or external sharing
   6. Turning off apps off for a sub org

This session will cover the basics of creating and sending a Google Form, giving audience members a chance to explore the features and use shortcuts like Doc to Form to convert their old assessments into Forms. More experienced Google Apps users will also test out the “quizzes” function and consider formative assessment with Forms.

This session is geared for Teachers, Google Apps Admin, School Administrator (Principal, Dean, Superintendent), Parents/Students, Beginners - Getting Started, New to Google

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According to the IoT and Coding trend, Acer launch CloudProfessor, an IoT education platform for people of all ages and backgrounds.  CloudProfessor offers users with plug-and-play hardware and software out of the box, as well as tutorials and starter modules to learn about IoT development.  The design offers flexibility of choice in regards to programming language, allowing users to start learning to code directly on their smartphones/tablets/chromebooks.  In CloudProfessor section, here is the agenda below.

1.         WW Education & IoT Trend

2.         IoT Education – Acer CloudProfessor

3.         Current Progress

In this newly upgraded and highly interactive workshop you will learn how students can use their devices to answer worksheet questions on Google Forms survey tools. 

Learn to apply proven and easy to use innovation tools to help adopt the latest Tech Tips, Apps, and Extensions to increase your classroom interaction and save you time, effort, and headaches.

This session is geared for Teachers, Google Apps Admin,    Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~  Getting geeky

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The New Google sites is an easy tool to build beautiful websites with ease. This session will teach you how to build a landing page, add pages, change the design, add headers and embed all the GSuite Tools to enhance teaching and learning in your classroom.

 This session will focus on the use of VR and  Google Expeditions in class to open up the world to students.

What is Google Expeditions?

Google Expeditions is a virtual reality teaching tool that lets you lead or join immersive virtual trips all over the world — get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks, even visit outer space!

Bring a phone or tablet for the best experience.  Some google cardboards will be provided

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Breakout EDU is the next big thing to excite students to collaborate and develop life skills. This session will allow educators to experience the wow factor that students experience in a Breakout EDU workshop. Pick up skills, tips and learning points on how to develop Breakout EDU in your classroom. 

This session is geared for Teachers, Beginners - Getting Started, New to Google, Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~ Getting geeky

In this session, teachers will learn how to use Doctopus to create class rosters, add co-teachers, assign and collect Google Doc essays, ingest Google Classroom Doc assignments, and provide feedback using the comment function to email and hyperlink.

This session is geared for Teachers, Google Apps Admin    Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~ Getting geeky

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Flipping from creating flipped lessons? Learn how to use Google Slides to make interactive and effective lesson materials that help promote independent learning outside the classroom.

This session is geared towards Beginner Audience: Primary, Middle, Secondary 
Strands: Flipped Lessons, Formative Assessment, Interactive lessons, Personalised Learning, Blended Learning, Google Apps for Education, Google ExtensionsCreating Interactive Flipped Lessons with Google Slides

Ever thought of overhauling the entire learning approach to excite your students and achieve beyond their means? This session is for teachers who wish to find out how the Design Thinking framework can be adopted in the classroom to spark the fun and engagement factor in learning.

This session is geared for Teachers, Beginners - Getting Started, New to Google, Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~ Getting geeky

This session with explore Breakout EDU, a physical (and digital) puzzle game, consisting of various types of locks, that creates ultra-engaging learning games for people of all ages. Games (Breakouts) teach teamwork, problem solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting by presenting participants with challenges that ignite their natural drive to problem-solve.

The Session will include an introduction to the Breakout EDU kit itself, the website, teacher created games and time to solve a Puzzle with fellow classmates.

http://www.breakoutedu.com/how-it-works/

My Presentation Can Be Found @ https://goo.gl/LBCWup

According to the IoT and Coding trend, Acer launch CloudProfessor, an IoT education platform for people of all ages and backgrounds.  CloudProfessor offers users with plug-and-play hardware and software out of the box, as well as tutorials and starter modules to learn about IoT development.  The design offers flexibility of choice in regards to programming language, allowing users to start learning to code directly on their smartphones/tablets/chromebooks.  In CloudProfessor section, here is the agenda below.

1.         WW Education & IoT Trend

2.         IoT Education – Acer CloudProfessor

3.         Current Progress

Creating a Google Form is an excellent way to engage students, provide feedback, collect data, and organize workflows. BUT, they can do much, much more. Come and learn about powerful uses of Doctopus, Formule, SyncData, FormRouter and more for your classroom and school. This will be an introductory to intermediate session in the use of Google Forms and Addons.

Click here for the presentation! ​http://goo.gl/x26X1h

Integrating computer programming into the curriculum is an important part of preparing students for their futures. Figuring out where it fits within the already-defined curriculum is a challenge by itself. In this session, participants will learn the ways in which computer programming integrates within their ELA and Math Learning Standards. This session is ideal for elementary and middle years classroom teachers and instructional specialists.

This session is geared for Teacher, School Administrator (Principal, Dean, Superintendent), Beginners - Getting Started, New to Google    

An introduction to Google Cardboard, Expeditions, Tour Builder and more. Exploring different immersion and VR apps, we will look at how to take and create digital trips that allow students and educators to tear down the walls of the traditional classroom.

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This session with explore Breakout EDU, a physical (and digital) puzzle game, consisting of various types of locks, that creates ultra-engaging learning games for people of all ages. Games (Breakouts) teach teamwork, problem solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting by presenting participants with challenges that ignite their natural drive to problem-solve.

The Session will include an introduction to the Breakout EDU kit itself, the website, teacher created games and time to solve a Puzzle with fellow classmates.

http://www.breakoutedu.com/how-it-works/

My Presentation Can Be Found @ https://goo.gl/LBCWup

In this workshop we will look at why hyperlinks in Google slides are useful for making interactive e-books/textbooks and how to be build a hyperlink e-book

We will look at the following skills:

1. Layout

2. Front cover

3. Home slide design

4. Information in the slides

5. Linking information in the slides

6. Assessment Questions

7. Feedback

All teachers love to free up their time from marking - this session will give you the skills to build your own assessment tools, auto mark and present these results in a neat graph and pie chart.

Educators are constantly searching for the elusive “Silver Bullet” of classroom instruction. It doesn’t take long to discover that no such magic really exists. BUT, there are a host of practical, usable educational technology strategies and tools that can transform a traditional classroom into an inquiry driven, creative, innovative, exciting learning environment. This session will introduce a wide variety of these tools, ranging from Minecraft: Education Edition to ThingLink to Adobe Spark, and more, for transformative implementation in classrooms.

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In this 'off topic' session we take a look at entrepreneurship in the new economy, and how both teachers and students can get involved. Dan Taylor is the founder and Director of AppsEvents, a Google for Education partner and organizer of summits and training worldwide. AppsEvents is is a completely virtual organisation with no offices and no full time employees that runs events most weeks quite literally across the globe. We look at this example and others of how people are building a new kind of business, often in their spare time using web-based tools. In particular we look at:

1. Teacher entrepreneurs - many teachers who are building businesses in their spare time and the types of things they are doing 2.The philosophy fom the book 'The four hour work week' by Tim Ferriss and how we use the 80/20 rule and Tim's 'DEAL - Definition, Elimination, Automation and Liberation' to run things

2. The tools to do it: How you can manage a business and promote yourself completely online - Almost entireluy using Google Drive, Sites, Hangouts, Plus and YouTube

3. The network: How to build a business with a team centric approach ....plus a lot more

This session is meant to show teachers that anyone can code and how important coding should be in your classroom.  It will also introduce a variety of different robots that teachers can use to teach their students how fun it is to have their coding skills translate into something that they can guide and see in action.  Teaching students how to overcome challenges through coding and robots not only gives them the skill of learning to code but also the attitude that 21st Century learners need, the attitude that making mistakes is the way to learn!

Follow this link for my Presentation: http://gg.gg/coding_robots_taiwan

In this session you will empower your students to proactively collaborate, investigate, and synthesize, with one another in real-time in your classroom as they curate portfolio content. After this session you will engage and lead your students’ critical thinking and higher level cognitive skills as they share their experiences, find examples, and collaborate with you (their teacher), other classmates, and the world. 

After this session you and your students will be able to build: 
-Course Level Digital Portfolios, 
-Group Level Digital Portfolios, and 
-Individual Student Level Digital Portfolios.

This sessions is geared for Teacher, Parents/Students, Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~ Getting geeky

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Learn how to go live within seconds on YouTube! Or Schedule events to broadcast later! We'll also cover the basics of using OBS as our encoder to help stream to YouTube!

This session is geared for Teachers, Google Apps Admin, School Administrator (Principal, Dean, Superintendent), Parents/Students, General Audience ~ All Levels

Take advantage of the technology rise in what are called “micro learning moments”. Learn how to Be There, Be Useful and Be Quick for your students. 

In this interactive session, you will learn tips, Apps, and Extensions to empower your students to access learning anytime and anywhere. 

Empower your students with four keys to:
-Know
-Go
-Do
-Review

This session is geared for Teachers, Parents/Students, Intermediate / Advanced / Admin Panel ~  Getting geeky

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This session will show you how to take quick and easy screenshots and screencast using the Chrome extensions and use these in a video editing suite.