Edina Apps in the Elementary Classroom

Tomorrow I am giving a presentation to one of my Elementary School's that I support to encourage the teachers to use Edina Apps.  We call Google Apps for Education and Moodle Edina Apps in our district.

Here is the presentation I will be giving about how you can use Edina Apps in the Elementary Classroom.

Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer

This week I finally finished up my Google Apps for Education Certified Training. 

In order to be come a GAFE Certified Trainer you need to take a series of 6 exams on the topics of Google Apps for Education, Google Docs, Google Sites, Gmail, Google Calendar and Other Tools.  Once you finish the exams you need to produce a two minute video tutorial highlighting a feature in Google Apps for Education.

Here is my two minute tutorial on "Embedding Multiple Calendars on Google Sites."  Enjoy!

November Links of the Month

Molly's November Links of the Month 2010


Click here for November 2010 Links of the Month

Remember you can copy and paste any of the links of the month onto your own Google Classroom Site…click here for directions!

Highlights from this month…

1.    Edina Apps Spotlight- Google Docs

2.    Thanksgiving Resources

3.     New Websites for your Interactive Whiteboard

Here is a sneak peak...

Announcing the next Google Workshop for Educator and the first Google Apps for Education Workshop

Join us for the next Google Workshop for Educators

Saturday, December 4^th, 2010

@ TIES Technology Conference

Hyatt Regency Hotel

Minneapolis, MN

8:30am-3:30pm

Bring your own Laptop

REGISTER HERE

Join us for the first Google Apps for Education Workshop

Sunday, December 5^th, 2010

@ TIES Technology Conference

Hyatt Regency Hotel

Minneapolis, MN

8:30am-3:30pm

Bring your own Laptop

REGISTER HERE

More information on each of these events can be found here.

We can bring the Google Workshop for Education or the Google Apps for Education Workshop to you or your school district!

Please fill out this form to bring this professional development opportunity to you!

Workshop Request Form

Smilebox Teacher's Account

Smilebox, one of my favorite tools for digital scrapbooking, is now offering a Premium Account for all Teachers!

Share the Smiles in Your Classroom

The Smilebox Teacher’s Toolbox program is a teacher’s digital companion for creative classroom communication. Teacher’s Toolbox gives teachers at all grade levels an easy and creative way to safely share photos, videos, and classroom updates to students and parents. Smilebox is perfect for:

• parent newsletters and updates
• overviews of teaching units for at-home learning and modeling
• award and merit certificates
• performance and field trip scrapbooks
• classroom activity slideshows
• end-of-year photo albums and yearbooks
• much, much more

Apply for a FREE Premium account because you are a teacher!  Apply here!

Molly’s Summer 2010 Example of a Collage…

Free photo collage customized with Smilebox

Google Geo Teacher's Institute

This July I was lucky enough to be accepted to attend the Google Geo Teacher's Institute at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.  

This professional development experience was designed by the Geo Education team at Google in order to inspire and teach teachers how to get the most from Google's Geo products and Technologies.  We got hands on experience with Google Earth, Sketch Up, Google Maps, Mars, Moon and Sky.   

There were many great presenters, break out sessions, events and people at the Google GTI, however the most inspiring part of the entire event was beging back at the Googleplex.  I first visited the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA in June of 2008 when I attended the Google Teacher's Academy and became a Google Certified Teacher.  Being invited back to Google was an exciting opportunity to continue learning about the amazing tools that Google has for students and educators.  A huge thanks to Tina on the Google Geo Education team for dreaming up this event.  Tina's 20% project on the Google Earth team was to begin a relationship with educators to partner with them in how to teach about geography using the Google Tools.  Recently, Tina's 20% project became her 80% project and there is a Geography Education Team at Google! 

A few highlights were...

• The Google Geography Bee hosted by the one and only Alex Trebek
• Michael Hathorn and his team of 5 students sharing their Building VT Google Earth and Sketch Up
• Jerome Burg's presentation sharing Google Lit Trips
• National Geographic's Giant Traveling Maps project
• Networking with teachers from all over the world!
• Learning from Tina and the Geo Education Team at Google
• The Food!  Micro-Kitchens...enough said!
• Being on the Google campus!

The main resource that we used for this experience is the Google Geo Teacher's Institute Site.  Feel free to use any of the resources.

I've been collecting the variety of resources that I've come across as it relates to Geography and the Google Tools here.  FollowMolly's Google Geography Tools

Jean Ozwald, Mahtomedi Media Specialist & Molly Schroeder, Edina Tech Integration Specialist

ISTE Presentations and Schedule

The National Technology Education conference is happening in Denver, Colorado the week of June 26-30th. I'll be doing a few presentations throughout the conference. Here are the times, locations and resources.

Sunday, June 27th

Google Workshop for Educators

Presentation on Google Sites

Google Teaching Theater

These presentations will take place at the Google Booth in the Exhibit Hall

June 28th @ 12:30pm

Innovative Ideas for Using Google Forms

June 29th @ 3:30pm

Soaring to New Sites! Using Google Sites with teachers, students and administrators.