During the past year more than 100 teachers earned graduate credits and professional development hours by participating in my online course Getting Going With GAFE (Google Apps for Education). By popular demand the fine folks at Midwest Teachers Institute and I have scheduled a new 2016 section of Getting Going With GAFE. The new course will start on January 5th.
Getting Going With GAFE is a Practical Ed Tech five week webinar series designed for teachers and administrators who are new to using Google Apps for Education. In Getting Going With GAFE you will learn everything you need to know to integrate Google Drive, Google Classroom, Google Calendar, and Google Sites into your practice.
Getting Going With GAFE costs $147. Three graduate credits are available for the course through my partnership Midwest Teachers Institute and Calumet College of St. Joseph. Graduate credits require an additional fee and completion of weekly assignments.
January 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, and February 2 at 7pm Eastern Time. All classes are recorded.
- Get to know Google Drive.
- What makes Google Docs better than your old word processor.
- Tips & tricks for getting the most out of Google Docs
- The ins and outs of Google Slides.
- Using Google Drive to store and share all of your digital creations (even those old files you made years ago in Word).
- Take control of your schedule with Google Calendar.
- Using calendars to keep your students, their parents, and your colleagues informed about happenings in your classroom.
- Using Google Calendar as a reservation system for parent-teacher conferences.
- Google Sites As Your Online Hub
- Create a website that students and their parents will want to visit.
- Using Google Sites as a blog.
- Designing and developing digital portfolios in Google Sites.
- Using Google Sites for wiki projects.
- Google Classroom to streamline your workflow.
Organizing assignments for distribution. - Managing multiple classrooms from one place.
- Giving feedback through Google Classroom.
Registration is $147 (subscribers to the Practical Ed Tech newsletter receive a discount code). Click here to register for the webinar series today.
The graduate credit option costs an additional $450. Click here to register for graduate credit.
Note: students pursuing the graduate credit option must register for the webinar series first, then complete the MTI graduate credit registration form.
Registration is not confirmed until payment has been received. Cancellations received less than 7 days prior to the start of the course will not be refunded.
All live sessions are recorded.
The recordings are made available to all participants to stream and or download.
Participants will receive digital handouts with directions for everything demonstrated in the webinars.
Participants have access to a dedicated discussion forum to use throughout the course.
The easiest and cheapest way to register is by completing the registration online with a credit card or PayPal. To register for graduate credit, first complete the webinar series registration then complete the MTI form here.
Purchase Orders and school checks will only be accepted if four or more people from the same district register together.
The courses will be hosted through GoToTraining. To participate in the course you will need a laptop or desktop computer with an updated browser (Chrome or FireFox is ideal).
