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.
Course dates:
November 24, December 1, 8, 15, and 22nd. All classes meet at 7pm Eastern Time. All classes are recorded.
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.
- 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 (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.
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. 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).
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 advisers 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.
