New Google Sites
Google Sites is one of the more underused apps in G Suite (the new name for Google Apps for Education). I’ve been using it for a number of years in school for newsletters and internal staff memos. Unfortunately, while functional, Google Sites was not particularly attractive. However, its great strength, for me, was how one […]
Google Sites getting a makeover at last!
Google Sites must be the forgotten child of Google Apps. While almost all of Google’s services have been given a lovely makeover with nice new functionality, Google Sites has been left in its functional but reasonably outdated state for quite some time. Things like adding galleries or decent blogs or anything remotely modern looking have […]
No longer simply “certified”, now an “innovator”
Google have decided to change their Google Certified Teachers into Certified Innovators. I’m always suspicious at someone who has a title with the word “evangelist” or “innovator” in it but it looks like I am an owner of one of these titles. I don’t feel so bad as I don’t get paid for the title but I […]
Parent Teacher Meetings and Google
[media url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HxQD-cFbI” width=”100%”] I never realised the amount of work that goes into organising Parent Teacher Meetings until I became a principal. I thought it was a ten minute job where one sent out a time to each family and that was it. However, there are lots of variables that have to be taken into […]
Using Google as a Learning Management System (LMS)
St. Patrick’s National School is a 76 pupil school in Co. Sligo with 3 teachers. They have come up with a very interesting way of using Google to help with their learning. Paul Barron, a teacher at the school, set up Google accounts for all of the fifth and sixth class pupils. The children are currently […]