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Introducing the New GEG Portal

We have been busy working in the background to revamp the Google Educator Group Portal making it public for GEG members to see all the fantastic work going on around the world. An exciting feature is the new GEG Event Listings page where leaders have started to the add the events delivered by their GEG. You can filter the events listed to show those in your chosen language.

The site also gives guidance and advice to any member thinking of starting a local GEG of their own. These local GEGs will be even more important once the world starts to return to normal with more in-person events opening up. The GEG Mentors are introduced on a page detailing where in the world they work to support their GEGs. And last but not least the GEG Newsletters are now public and hosted on this Site too, allowing leaders to really showcase the variety of ways they support Educators in their countries.

NEW resources for GEG leaders

To compliment the new members public site we have also revamped the GEG Leaders Portal. As it's name suggests the portal is only available to be accessed by GEG Leaders and Mentors.

New to the Leaders Portal will be a series of resources to help new leaders develop areas of practice that they may need when new to the role. The first of these are the new Twitter Resources:

• Twitter accounts for GEG leaders

• How to run a Twitter chat

• Scheduling Tweets

GEG leaders these resources can be found on this page. https://sites.google.com/google.com/gegleaderportal/inspiring-events

GEG SUPERTABi Portugal - Time travel with Chromebook10

The function of school is to make the teaching / learning process fun, exploring critical thinking, creativity, imagination and freedom of expression so that students feel fulfilled at school, more motivated and committed. It helps promote autonomy, creativity, responsibility, team work, cultural diversity and citizenship through problem solving activities using computational thinking.

Learning to program promotes a broader set of skills, including teamwork, structuring and organising ideas, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, analytical thinking and attention to detail.

The transversality of code with the other areas of knowledge (such as Mathematics, Portuguese, the History Studies, Music and Plastic Arts) allow the development of various skills, solidifying content, objectives and strategies appropriate to the level of to the group / class.

These students learned to create, plan, solve problems, build something with a purpose, with the theme of "Portuguese Discoveries" in the field of History Studies. They were guaranteed the opportunity to develop their originality and creativity, create a rich narrative and develop creative writing by participating in the activities through the inclusion of programming in an educational context.

GEG Hispanoamerica leader Summit

GEG Hispanoamerica hosted their first 2021 summit with +65 leaders from 11 countries in Latin America in attendance. Their goal was to strengthen their Spanish speaking community and introduce their regional program to keep growing together.

Visit them at geghispanoamerica.org

Google Certified Educator Level 1 Course at IPG Kampus Ipoh Perak
GEG Gombak in Malaysia, recently conducted a 2 day training event to prepare their members for the Google Certified Educator Level 1 Course at IPG Kampus Ipoh Perak. Teachers had lots of fun with a Kahoot quiz to help them recall information and the feedback from teachers showed how much they found the session useful to support them while working towards the exams. We are looking forward to an update later in the year to see how many new Certified Educators this GEG inspired. Well done GEG Gombak

GEG NZ - Bay of Plenty Region Sparkshop 2021

Designed to "spark" inspiration in the practice of others, this is the third year that a small group of dedicated New Zealand teachers has come together to share tips and tools that teachers can use in their classrooms the next day.

Hosted at Tauranga Girls College after a busy day at school, the Sparkshop had five workshops with four presenters. Shout out to Steve Smith from Google for Education NZ who travelled down from Auckland just for this event.

What is your role in the GEG leadership team?

I see my role is to lead the GEG so that community members get the maximum benefit. To do this I plan PD sessions, invite experts, share solutions in video format and also post reflections on social media. However, I don’t work alone, I do get valuable support from my community members which allows us to roll out a PD session every Saturday.

So what’s next?

As mentioned previously we have a PD session every Saturday and every such event is special to us and exciting. However, our bootcamps have been the centre of attraction.

We have already delivered two GCE Level 1 Bootcamps, in November 2020 and March 2021. They were so well received that members have already requested a Bootcamp for GCE Level 2 which we will be advertising very soon for a date in May 2021.