The Google Summit in Adelaide
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The Google Summit in Adelaide

Back in 2012, we helped launch the very first Google Summit in Santa Clara, California…just down the road from Google’s Headquarters in Mountain View. Based on the idea of the Google Certified Innovator Academy, a small group of educators created an event that brought Googlers (people that work at Google) and educators together to share…

New Google Features Announced at BETT’24
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New Google Features Announced at BETT’24

Bett is the biggest education technology exhibition in the world. Think EduTech but much bigger! Bett aims to bring together educators from across the entire education landscape and has been transforming education since 1985! Find out more about Bett here.  The team from Google for Education was there. Part of their participation, the company shared…

Innovator Academy Dates Announced
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Innovator Academy Dates Announced

Big news! Google has released the dates for the 2024 Google Certified Innovator Academies.  The Google Certified Innovator program has been around since 2006 and has welcomed just under 2000 educators into the community.  This group of passionate educators from all over the world has inspired countless new ideas, programs, school initiatives and more. At…

Top 4 Favourite Google for Education Features Coming Soon
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Top 4 Favourite Google for Education Features Coming Soon

This week, London hosted the annual EdTech event called BETT.  It was exciting to see Google for Education announce a whole round of updates and tools for more collaborative, personal and accessible learning coming SOON to Google Workspace. Here are some of the features that we are excited about: Practice Sets This has been in…

Recording Google Meet calls will end for free Google Workspace for Edu edition users.
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Recording Google Meet calls will end for free Google Workspace for Edu edition users.

If you are using the Fendementals Edition of Google Workspace for Education, the recoding function in Google Meet sessions will not longer be available to you after 10 January 2022. This feature has always been labeled as a premium feature but was offered for free for organisations during the height of the pandemic and the transition to transition to…

Blogger added to the Under 18 User Limitations with Google Workspace for Education
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Blogger added to the Under 18 User Limitations with Google Workspace for Education

Earlier this year, Google announced that users under 18 will have more restricted access to services and lose access to some additional services. By now you know that these restrictions are in full effect and these changes are rolling out across the world. If you need help understanding these new restrictions and how to set…

International Mindedness
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International Mindedness

Guest Writer: Alex Galland I am fortunate to work in a school where international-mindedness plays an important role. We have an extremely multicultural student population; students naturally make efforts to learn more about others, developing empathy in order to achieve mutual understanding and respect.  Our students see themselves connected to a global community, and they are…

Storage Limits coming to Google Workspace For Education Accounts
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Storage Limits coming to Google Workspace For Education Accounts

With all the announcements yesterday, Google made it easy to focus on the cool changes coming to Google Classroom and the enhancements coming to Google Meet. You may have missed a very important change…storage limits! For years and years, we have been touting the awesomeness of unlimited storage in Google Drive in education. Well, the…

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