Google Weekly Podcast

GWPodcast 29: A Google A Day

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:35:15 PDT

Host: Bjorn Behrendt
Guest Co-host: John Maklary

Show News:
- http://edlisten-live.blogspot.com/
- http://getgoogle.edlisten.com/ ~ Getting Started with Google 3 credit course. Aug 13-17 2012
- John and I talk about professional development strategies

What's New in Google:

- 450 fonts & 60 templates added to Google Docs
- Google A Day update: http://www.agoogleaday.com
- Apple planning to drop Google Maps from iOS 6

What's Current in Google:

- Google Hangouts
- http://hangoutapps.com/

- Remove hangout apps & check all authorized apps

App Exploration:

Chrome:
- goo.gl chrome app
- Chrome Remote Desktop

Android:
- IP Webcam

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GWPodcast 28: Google Drive

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:04:23 PDT

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Host: Bjorn Behredt
Guest C0-Host: Tim Metcalfe
Guest Co-Host: Sean Beavers

Show News:
- EduOnAir videos posted
- My EduOnair recorded workshops: Click Here
- Guest Co-Host Form
- Teaching Change Podcast Episode 1: Universal Design Learning
- PD in Pj's OnAir conference call for presenters

What's New in Google:

- Google Groups Redesign
- Hangouts On-Air for everyone
- Apps policy has been updated
- Contact Delegation
- 540 new fonts to google

What's Current in Google:

- Google Drive
- Renamed Documents to Drive
- Integration with 3rd party apps
- Richard Byrne's Drive eBook (http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

App Exploration:

- Marketplace:

- Chrome:
- WeVideo for Drive
- Prezi
- Lazarus

- Android:
- Team Tasks ($.99)
- Baby Firsts
- ToddlerLock

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GWPodcast 27: EduOnAir Promo Hangout

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:04:52 PDT

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Thank you:
- Bjorn Behrendt, IT Coordinator, E. Wallingford, Vermont, Google+ , website, Twitter, Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, Session 5
- Eric Curts, Technology Director, Uniontown, Ohio, USA, Google+ , website, Twitter, Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4
- Kern Kelley, Education Technologist, Maine, USA, Google+, website, Twitter, Session 1, Session 2
- Allison Mollica, Instructional Technology Facilitator, Sunapee, New Hampshire, USA Google+ , website, Twitter, Session

I just found this Chrome App that allows for screencasting on a Chromebook, but it is very bata: http://goo.gl/h3OoH

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How to enable Google Drive Screencast and some changes or features you will see

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:01:16 PDT

Compliments of my 8th grade shadow student today, here are some screencast of how to enable Google Drive and some of the changes you will see with it.

Enable Google Drive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKjvl0Swbww

Changes and features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIvH8oFxiA

Never Stop Learning

GWPodcast 26: Google Sites with Julie Sharma

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:31:59 PDT

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Host: Bjorn Behrendt
Co-Host: Jake Kinsman
Guest: Julie Sharma

Show News:
- Edu On-Air Conference (#eduonair)
- Presenters Circle

What's New in Google:

- Admins can Disable End-User Forwarding
- G-Mail “Compact” Density
- Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange Interop
- Accessibility improvements to Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites
- Street view in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa
- Images from Life Magazine and Stock Images

Google sites:

- Guest: Julie Sharma: G+, Email
- https://sites.google.com/site/julie1schlafersharma/Teaching

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: SlideRocket

- Chrome: SlideRocket

- Android: Jump Desktop

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GWPodcast 25: Google On-Air Conference May 2nd and Haiku Learning Management System

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:45:40 PDT

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Show News:
- Guest Co-Host Eric Curts; Email, Twitter, G+, www

- The State Of Tech Podcast

What's New in Google:

- Google's Free On-Air Conference
- My Presentations: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, Session 5
- Eric's Presentations: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4

Interview with Anthony Showalter of Haiku:

- Anthony Showalter: Email
- Haiku Google Apps Marketplace
- Haiku Website

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Lucidchart

- Chrome: Desmos

- Android:

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GWPodcast 24: A student’s perspective

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:53:39 PDT

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Co-host:
- Jake Kinsman
- Email
- Unedited On-Air Hangout video

What's New in Google:

- Account Activity. Accounts => Products

- http://www.googleartproject.com/
- How we’re making even more 3D video available on YouTube
- Google Apps for Schools Webinar Series

Interview:

Jake is a senior at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. The school went 1:1 with iPads this year and rolled out Google Apps. We talk about his experience from the perspective of a student.

In prepping for the show Jake had so much great content that we decided to break up the show into 3 different sections; this one on the students perspective, another on a device shootout, and a third talking about Google Sites.

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Smartsheet

- Chrome: Capture to Cloud

- Android: Handy Scanner Pro

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GWPodcast 23: Collaborating with Hojoki

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:57:24 PDT

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What's New in Google:

- New way to manage Control Panel administrators roles and privileges
- Google Apps Vault
- Visit the Amazon with Street View
- April Fools

- Email Tap ~ morse code for android
- Project NASCAR ~ autonomous race car. ~ no driver
- Multitask mouse ~ use two mice at once
- Maps for Nintendo ~ 8-bit version

Interview with of Hojoki:

- Adam Bannister
- adam@hojoki.com
- http://hojoki.com/

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: LearnThatWord

- Chrome: PageEdit

- Android play: Flashcard Machine

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GWPodcast 22: Backup and Archive Google Apps With SysCloudSoft

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:56:02 PDT

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What's New in Google:

- Update to Google Docs and Presentations spell checking
- Google Site links in files template

Interview:

- With Vijay Krishna, CEO and Founder, SysCloudSoft

- www.syscloudsoft.com
- support@syscloudsoft.com
- Check us out at Google Marketplace
- SysCloudSoft Backup for Google Apps Software Edition
- FREE Domain Migration - Online Google Apps Domain to Domain (Top New App)

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Desk.com - Social Help Desk (FREE)

- Chrome: World Time Buddy

- Android: PaceRecorder

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GWPodcast 21: It Is Hot In Vermont

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:46:22 PDT

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Show News:
- Listeners Lino-it ~ Post your info
- Show Idea Forum
- Co-Host Form
- EdListen Youtube Channel

What's New in Google:

- On-Air conference
- Request for presentation proposal ~ Due Friday March 21
- Conference May 2nd 1-7est USA
- Star and label messages before you send them
- Learn why a message was flagged as spam
- Gmail New Look will be released to all users starting March 27th

What's Current in Google:

- Add Tabs to ruler in a Google Document

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: DocuSign

- Chrome: Psykopaint

- Android: iStoryBooks

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Seeking proposals: Google Edu On Air Virtual Conference

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:32:47 PDT

Please submit your proposal for a 50 minute session by Friday March 23rd at 1pm EST.

Educators,

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElKcUl0NXkxQkRvc2NOMzdER2hMb1E6MQ#gid=0

Thanks,

Tia

Google in Education team

GWPodcast 20 ~ Android market is being renamed to Google Play with guest Co-host Derrick Wlodarz

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:49:24 PDT

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Guest Host: Derrick Wlodarz

Show News:
- Added forums
- Added a listener Lino-it page you can add your name to: Add your name
- Google NE summit: March 22 - March 23, 2012
- North Central Google Apps User Conference - March 29

What's New in Google:

- Android market is being renamed to Google Play
- New features added to Google Docs & Sites
- Centralized comments
- OCR Pdf files
- HTML Box that can handle javascript, html & css
- Email link capability in Chrome now for Apps accounts
- goo.gl ~ URL Shortener
- Chromebook has image editor
- 14 million new jobs because of the Cloud by 2015
- Lime Chrome OS | Vanilla Chrome OS: Chhrome OS for Desktops

Conferences we attended:

- New England 1:1:
- 1:1 Device implementation: A round table discussion
- Professional Development Strategites
- ICE Conference 2012 in St Charles, IL: FireLogic Presentation on How to use Google Apps for Election News

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Mojo help desk

- Chrome: Shelby.tv

- Android: Podkicker

FireLogic to Host Google Apps Power User & Deployment Specialist Training this Summer

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Episode 19 ~ Google Science Fair with Cristin Frondella of Google

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:20:54 PST

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Show News:
- Presenting at New England 1:1 Summit and there is still time to register
- Expect some changes as I am expanding into a network called EdListen
- Amazon link is up on the website
- Podcasting gear I use
- Google's new Policy

What's New in Google:

- Make apps from Chrome
- Control panel search now faster + new search operators
- More control for administrators with new options in chat settings
- Google Contacts integration with profiles and Google+ circles
- New presentations editor is now the default editor, also with discussions just like in Docs

Interview with Cristin Frondella:

- http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/
- Google Science Fair + Page
- Will.i.am + Page
- Android app recommendation: One Man With a Camera

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: Docebo E-Learning LMS

- Chrome: Floorplanner

- Android: Dr. Seuss the Lorax

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Reminder: Google's policy is changing March 1st

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:25:54 PST

I will speak more about this on my next show but I wanted to put the reminder out.

Google's new policy goes in effect March 1st. The new policy is a consolidation of 60 individual policies that Google had. There is a lot of hype around the policy as it clearly states that Google can share information across it's services. What many don't understand is that Google has had a version of this right all along, but it was not as easy to understand.

Google does not share your information but rather leaves a cookie on your computer with key information like what are your common searches, or what your location is, or even what phone you own. This cookie on your computer is what gets used to help target adds that are shown to you. By no means are the advertisers getting your information.

The new policy is less about the cookie or advertising and more about all their services being able to have access to your information. This is for your convince. An example of future use of this policy change is the ability to have your gmail contents available to you when you use Youtube.

I will double-check but I am pretty sure this policy does not effect the education edition of Google apps (if someone reading this knows a link to this information please post it in the comments.)

The new policy can be read here, along with instructions on how to disable the cookie if you are concerned about that: http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/policies/privacy/

If you want to see what information Google has on you and manage that information then you can look at your dashboard, which is basically their file on you: https://www.google.com/dashboard/b/0/

-Bjorn Behrendt
Host: Google Weekly Podcast

Episode 18 ~ Making Google Apps FERPA compliant with CloudLock

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:35:56 PST

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Show News:
- 10,601 hits since November 2011. Thank you for all your support.

What's New in Google:

- Google Apps For Education NY/NJ Summit

- More visual image search

- Now can collaborate in real-time with the docs app for android

- Webinars you won’t want to miss

Interview:

- CloudLock

- Gil Zimmermann: gil@cloudlock.com

App Exploration:

- Marketplace: CloudLock

- Chrome: Hangout Canopy

- Android: PocketCloud Explore

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Episode 17 ~ Interview with Google's Dana Nguyen (Google Certified Trainer Program & Chromebooks)

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:28:51 PST

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Show News:

I will be presenting at the New England 1:1 Summit
VTed.org ~ Vermont's Educational Personal Learning Network

Show Highlights:

Interview with Dana Nguyen (google+ profile)

Google Apps For Education Certified Trainer Program
AppsCT Trainer Directory
My Marketplace Profile (Please Rate me)
Chromebooks
My Vt-Fest Presentation

What's New:

Apps of the Week:

From the Marketplace: LucidChart Diagramming for Education
From the Chrome Web Store: ClickerSchool Virtual Clicker
Android App: ClickerSchool Virtual Clicker
Dana's contribution: Pixton

Universal Deign Learning: Starts at 29:56

Recognition Networks

Ability to recognize patterns, visually, auditory, by smell, taste or touch
Bottom-up: Visually recognized by its self
Top-Down: Contextually

Misconceptions

Learning is physical connections
You can not unlearn anything
Misconceptions can be changed

Father's Example of misconception

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Episode 16 ~ The Flipped Classroom

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:50:29 PST

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Show News:

VTed.org ~ Vermont's Educational Personal Learning Network

Show Highlights:

What's New:

What's Current:

Table of Contents

Apps of the Week:

From the Marketplace: Doodle
From the Chrome Web Store: Hieroglyphic Typewriter
Android App: Chrome Bata for Android

Universal Deign Learning: Starts at 12:02

Flipped Classroom

lecture at home and come to class to do the work. This allows for teachers to actually see the thought process of the students which make's it very UDL friendly.
Concern about lack of internet access.
Realization that a flipped classroom is less about how you present the material and more about how teachers spend their in-class time.

A description of my flipped classroom at the college level.
Gilbar, K. Why I flipped my classroom. Raleigh, NC: FIZZ (Friday Institute for Educational Innovation) North Carolina State University. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGuLuipTwg&feature=related

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Episode 15 ~ The 1st Google Weekly Podcast Listener Hangout

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:47:29 PST

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Show Highlights:

Add a Google+ Badge to your site
Second link to how to add a Google+ Badge
IT guy's badge
RSS
Google hangout works with the ipad
Hangouts work over 3g
Setting up a new Google Apps For Education domain

After the show research

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Episode 14 ~ Back to Basics & That Darn Terms Of Use

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:57:25 PST

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Show News:

GWPodcast Listener Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15

Show Highlights:

Back to Basics:

Google's Core Suite: gMail, Calendar, Documents, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Sites
Google's Extended family: Youtube, Blogger, Reader, and more
gMail vs Google Apps
Google Hardware

What's New:

Apps of the Week:

From the Marketplace: OpenClass
From the Chrome Web Store: IssueBrner
Android App: gTalk Status Widget

Universal Deign Learning: Starts at 15:21

If I won the lottery what would my school look like

Interactive white board & 1:1
Alternative learning day for both teachers and students
Cooperate Internship Program: info on MSJ's CIP program
Hire forward thinking teachers
"Teaching Change" as a skill

Brain Based Learning: no two people have the same physical connections in the brain, and therefore no two people learn the same.
Sir Ken Robinson's RSA Animate Changein Education Paradigms:
"To understand the world you would need to be able to learn... To change the world you need to be able to share your understanding" my modification of a quote.

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Episode 13 ~ If I Could Travel In Time, I'd Visit...

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:20:58 PST

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Show News:

GWPodcast Listener Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15
Added Google resource link
http://elementopie.com/
Addition of Universal Design Learning

Show Highlights:

What's New:

What's Current:

Remove Formatting

Apps of the Week:

From the Marketplace: SlideRocket
From the Chrome Web Store: Offline Google Mail
Android App: Lama Location Profiles

Thank you Niilo Alhovaara for the suggestion: Google+ | Blog

Universal Deign Learning: Starts at 19:30

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Episode 12 ~ Search + or Search -

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:32:48 PST

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Show News:

Concept Mapping Software Webinar: January 19th at 3:30 est USA
VTEd Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15

Show Highlights:

What's New:

Search, plus Your World

What's Current:

http://scholar.google.com/

Apps of the Week:

From the Marketplace: MinDomo
From the Chrome Web Store: Cycling Through Alps
Android App: BeyondPod

Thank you Niilo Alhovaara for the suggestion: Google+ | Blog

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Episode 11 ~ Keeping Up With The 2012 U.S. Election And Organize Those Tasks

bj@askbj.net (Bjorn Behrendt) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:00:19 PST

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Show News:

Concept Mapping Software Webinar: January 19th at 3:30 est USA
VTEd Hangout Feb 6th at 3:15
Call for presenters for Dynamic Landscapes
Thank You listeners we the show has gotten over 5000 hits since Novenber 2011
Info about my new Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and Android 4 (ICS - Ice Cream Sandwich)