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Google Teachers Academy in London, July 2010

The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other primary and secondary educators in their local region.

links to materials included in the printed book at the Google Teacher Academy

just too cool - love this!

Supporting student learning is the primary goal and a non-negotiable factor of our 1:1 program.  In light of this principle, the following questions were asked in determining what kind of device we wanted at Wheaton Academy:

Excellent article. Our school is going Chromebook next year and this article does a great job explaining Wheaton's Academies reasoning for their adoption of Chromebooks.

Synchronize notes with online videos and save to Google Drive. Compatible with YouTube, Coursera, edX, Udacity, and Khan Academy.

pretty nice notetaking tool for MOOCs - integrated with Google Drive (nice!)

Video Note--taking notes while viewing a video

"This chapter offers a case study for using apps scripts to facilitate assessment of student learning and to automate the creation of student feedback reports."

Great blog about flipping classrooms!