{"id":68,"date":"2016-11-17T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T06:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-11-17T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T06:12:06","slug":"my-first-google-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/2016\/11\/17\/my-first-google-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Google Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Inspirational!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

My first Google Summit was exciting, enlightening, eventful and\u00a0inspiring. The two day adventure at Crescent School in Toronto began with a keynote presentation from\u00a0Jeffery Heil<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Technology, High Expectations and the Art of Relationships. Heil spoke so passionately about his students and the connections that he creates to channel positivity and affect change through\u00a0advocacy. He showed us this video<\/a> of his former student named Ryan Hudson<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hudson is a professional snowboarder who represents North Face and is one of the founding spokespeople for an organization called, “Outdoor Outreach.”<\/a>\u00a0This group\u00a0<\/span>uses the outdoors to inspire youth to see possibility and opportunity in their lives. Heil and Hudson have continued this movement by celebrating the success of the movement from\u00a0#streets2peaks<\/a>. This concept\u00a0centers around to ideals of peace. power. presence. perseverance, and positivity. Hudson grew up in and out of\u00a0homeless shelters in San Diego, California. With the help of Heil, he was able to defeat the odds and become a successful professional athlete. – Wow!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Take away – “Through bravery and creativity… <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

…you can change the future.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Breakout sessions showcased various Google awesomeness!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most notably in my opinion was the docAppender for Google Forms from William\u00a0Farbstein. This “Aha Moment” has altered my student portfolio development. Each student works on his\/her own document that is shared with the teacher. This document creates a progress log that enables, communication, presentation and assessment in one location. Seamless and effortless evaluations that automatically creates a sheets file as your gradebook. Plus the constant communication and instant feedback that students need to succeed. There are so many different Google Add-ons<\/a> to discover and explore.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Teachers need to hand students the reigns… and then chase after them”<\/p>\n

– Les MacBeth<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Check out Les MacBeth’s post<\/a> about streamlining feedback.<\/p>\n

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#Cohort21 Represents<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the greatest aspects of this Summit was that some of the most notable presenters were also #Cohort21 members\/coaches. This impressive and supportive network is wonderfully engaged in the Google community. (Sorry if I missed anyone.)<\/p>\n

Jennifer\u00a0<\/a>Casa-Todd –\u00a0Reading in the 21st Century featuring Read & Write Google,\u00a0Connecting Students to Each other & the world using Google tools<\/span><\/p>\n

James Trood<\/a> – My 1st Year with Google, Breakout EDU<\/a> Session (A highly entertaining version of escape room using technology that can be incorporated into class content – Very Fun!)<\/p>\n

Sylvia \u00a0Duckworth<\/a>\u00a0– Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories with Google Slides, Creating Comics with Bitmojis and Google Slides,\u00a0Video production with Google Slides, Screencastify, and WeVideo<\/p>\n

Final Keynote:<\/strong> Sylvia closed out the #gafesummit<\/a> with a wonderful reflection of her learning process as a sketchnote artist. She presented the audience with a drawing challenge and showcased that we can all be successful if we put our minds to it. Congratulations on the release of your new book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Next Steps:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am considering becoming a Google Educator Level 1 & 2.<\/p>\n

What are the benefits to each and should I complete all three distinctions if my school is not using Google?<\/p>\n

Google Educator<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Trainer<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Innovator<\/a><\/p>\n

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Inspirational! My first Google Summit was exciting, enlightening, eventful and\u00a0inspiring. The two day adventure at Crescent School in Toronto began with a keynote presentation from\u00a0Jeffery Heil\u00a0on\u00a0Technology, High Expectations and the Art of Relationships. Heil spoke so passionately about his students and the connections that he creates to channel positivity and affect change through\u00a0advocacy. He showed … Continue reading “My First Google Summit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lisabettencourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}