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¡Happy two years GEG BUENOS AIRES!

September 6th 2022 was very special for the GEG Buenos Aires’ team because not only did we celebrate our second anniversary, we also held our first face-to-face event!

The program of the day, in line with our pillars of inspiring, sharing, empowering and learning, had the best ingredients: welcome breakfast, presentation of the GEG and its members to the more than 50 participants, training on PBL (Project Based Learning) by Laura Marinucci and Micaela Tegaldi, tips and various resources for each teacher's toolbox.

We chose to provide PBL training as a bastion to work on the 4 Cs of the 21st Century Learning and Innovation Skills (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity).

GEG APAC Quarterly Event for September Highlights 'Google Cool'

GEG Asia-Pacific has been adapting to event planning as we learn to live with the COVID pandemic. In September, 2022, three groups from across India, Japan, the Philippines came together to plan sessions in English and Hindi with the theme of 'Google Cool' - anything unique and exciting about Google tools that might inspire educators and their students. GEG Leaders from across the region shared a range of great ideas such as Google Arts & Culture for English classes, Chrome extensions you can't live without, Google ExpeditionsPro, tips and tricks with Google Sheets, ideas for Google Drawings, pixel art with Google Sheets, fun with Google Search, and a lot more! GEG APAC has moved to host quarterly events in multiple languages widely spoken across the region. Presenters are largely GEG Leaders but also encourage others to join, share, present, and inspire. Anyone interested in participating from any part of the world can contact a GEG Leader living in Asia to learn more about who we are, what we do, and connect with educators in our region.

GEG Asia-Pacific has revamped its website (https://sites.google.com/view/gegasia/) and is preparing for its annual signature event to be held January 14-15, 2023. A call for presenters is coming in autumn 2022!

GEG Nagoya Returns to Face-to-Face Events in Japan

Google Educator Group Nagoya has returned to face-to-face events! In August, 2022, GEG Nagoya hosted a relaxed pub night event in which all participants shared short 10-minute presentations. The theme was 'What have we learned during the pandemic?' Participants and GEG Leaders ate, drank, and learned new ideas. As the formal event wound down all participants found themselves using the house guitars and keyboard for an impromptu jam session, singing popular songs from decades ago.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic GEG Nagoya was presenting regularly online and provided in-person events. Throughout the pandemic, GEG Nagoya Leader Kunie Yamada proposed an idea called 'Moonlight Sessions' to be held online during the full moon each month. The group has made an effort to reach out to interesting people with great educational ideas and stories to share. While largely focusing on educational technology, Moonlight Sessions also highlight important themes like health and wellbeing and connecting with people across the globe. Each online session features an educator presenting in English or Japanese (and sometimes both!). By the end of 2022, GEG Nagoya will have had 24 specific broadcasts under the Moonlight Sessions banner.

While GEG Nagoya intends to continue online broadcasts, the team is thrilled with the return to offering face-to-face events that bring interesting people and ideas together!

Spotlight on a GEG leader :

New Hispanic Heritage Month Lessons

Hey Educators,

We are pleased to announce that we have released three new lessons to honour Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept 15th - Oct 15th. These lessons celebrate the rich history and diverse culture of the Latinx community and encourage student creativity while designing personalised projects. There are 4 lessons in the collection. If you have used one please share your story.

Celebrate Latinx History - Applied Digital Skills

Integrating Screencastify with Google Classrooms for student assignments

The Green Acres Academy, Chembur, which is one of India’s Google Reference Schools, believe in imparting 21st century skills to our students. This includes giving our students opportunities to apply their learning in the real world.

To take this ahead, what better than Google’s Chrome extension ‘Screencastify’ now integrated with Google Classrooms to let students easily create, edit, share and monitor their own learning through personalized videos for classwork, homework, projects or formal assessments, all for free!

Screencastify now provides the easiest solution to make student learning far more visible and easy to assess!

Post an assignment for slide presentations, narration over videos, music, map tours through Screencastify like any other assignment on Google Classroom, check student submissions much more meaningfully and return scores/feedback through the classroom itself!

Let's have a look at some screenshots of the Screencastify dashboard on posting an assignment on Google classroom along with the classroom dashboard for student work.

Suparna Mukherjee - GEG Mumbai

Make a Google MyMap of where your students are from

The easiest way to do this is to crate a simple Google Form with the details you need. Something asking Name, Location, Biography and if wanted a photo or place link. Once the students complete the form, the spreadsheet will look something like this.

1. Download the spreadsheet as a .csv file, using File >Download>Comma Separated Values .csv.

2. Open a new MyMaps from https://mymaps.google.com/