Level 1 Google Certified Educator

I sat the exam tonight and passed the Level 1 Google Certified Educator !!!

Google Trainer

It was a good day today when I read the email from Google to say I have been accepted on the Google Trainer Program. Very exciting.
The link with the information is here, under the "Become a Trainer" heading.
There were quite a few different elements to get together for the application and I want to thank +Amber and +Dorothy for checking it through and making sure I had covered everything and my spelling was ok!!! Also, thanks to everyone who filled in the feedback form that I had to send as part of the evidence of receiving and responding to feedback from trainings I have given.
It was worth it.
Yay!

Yay...I am Certifiable!!!

I passed my last Google Educator exam today.
I have been taking the 5 exams over the last month and a bit and I took the last one, the option choice, today. You have to take 4 standard exams, sites, calendar, gmail and docs / drive and then you get to choose from a selection for the option choice. I chose the Chrome browser.

Yay!!!

Google for Education

After listening to all the training options available at the GAFE Summit NZ this week, I decided to make a start.
I went through the basic exams yesterday, and have completed the level 1 certificate.
I have now made a start working my way through the first Level 2 set (about Docs and Drive) and am aiming towards the Google Educator exams.
Link to the Google for Eduction site here.
Great resource site from the GAFE Summit here.

Google Help Outs

I was  all ready this morning for my Google Help Outs interview. I had been very excited to receive the email with the invite code, so I went straight on and put in the details for my proposed Help Out. I am aiming to do help with GAFE stuff, as that is what I do anyway!!

They got back to me with possibilities for the interview and I was scheduled in for 10.15 this morning.

So.... hair done, looking semi respectable (for a Sunday morning!), I was ready when the reminder ping went for the hangout.

Then it all hit the fan.

The school domain doesn't support hangouts. (It is set to on in the admin dashboard, but I think the hangouts thing is set higher up.)

I couldn't use my personal gmail account as the invite code is non transferrable.

I couldn't get in contact with the guy on the other end.

I was looking at the "waiting" indicator on the hangout notification.

Then I had to click the cancel button for it. I felt so rude to the person sat on the other end!!

You can't email them, you have to phone. On weekdays.

So tomorrow, the plan is to phone them to see if they will extend the invite to my personal account.

I have just come in from the garden, taking out my frustration on the weeds.