This month I ran a webinar series titled Getting Ready for GAFE. The webinar sold out and some people who wanted to join, couldn't. So I've partnered with The Midwest Teachers Institute to offer the course again. This partnership allows me to offer the course with a graduate credit option.
Has your school recently transitioned to Google Apps for Education? If so, this course offers everything you need to know to take advantage of the great things that GAFE offers to teachers and students.
Getting Ready for GAFE is a
Practical Ed Tech webinar series designed for teachers and administrators who are new to using Google Apps for Education.
Getting Ready for GAFE is a five week course covering everything you need to know to to integrate Google Drive, Google Classroom, Google Calendar, and Google Sites into your practice this year.
Getting Ready for GAFE costs $147. (Register by November 8th with the discount code "PETGAFE" to save $15). 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.
To register for the graduate credit option you must first register for the course here then click here to register for the graduate credit.
Classes begin on November 24th.
Click here to register for the November/December course.
Course highlights:
- 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.
- Customizations you didn’t know about.
- 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.
What’s included? What does it cost?
Registration is $147.
Click here to register.
The graduate credit option costs an additional $450.
Click here to register for graduate credit. Note: you must also register for the course
here. Registration is not confirmed until payment has been received. Cancellations received less than seven days prior to the start of the course are not eligible for refunds.
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.
When is it?
The live meetings are held at 7pm Eastern Time on November 24th and December 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd.
This sounds great! How do I register? What will I need to participate?
The easiest and cheapest way to register is by completing the registration online with a credit card or PayPal.
Click here to register.
To register for graduate credit, first complete the
form here 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).
Nice Things People Have Said About My Webinars and Presentations:
I am finding your GAFE webinar so helpful!!
K. Sloan
Your keynotes were spot on and your professionalism was extremely appreciated.
Lindsay Bellino, Director of Online Communities, Pearson OLE
Your keynote was excellent and set a great tone for the whole conference.
Gary Seastrand, Brigham Young University
About the costs and my decision to advertise these opportunities on my blog:
Sometimes when I advertise one of these webinars I get messages from people who are upset that I am advertising it here and or that I am charging for it. I understand why some people feel that way. I thought long and hard about how to offer these opportunities. In fact, I thought about it and talked about it with trusted advisors for a year before offering the first webinar series last year. The purpose of this blog and my goal for years has always been to help people use free technology in their classrooms. The tools and strategies featured in my webinars and at the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp are free to use. However, my time for teaching isn't free. Further, I pay licensing fees to GoToTraining and to Wistia for hosting all of the media content of the courses.
