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Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #69 We're Back!

This hosts this week are Nick and Brandon.

For the next few weeks, we will be covering the chapters found in our Google Apps Guidebook. We will go chapter by chapter and discuss the highlights and tips from each lesson. We also talk about the Student Summit Grant winners!

 

The Google Apps Guidebook

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The Google Apps Guidebook

The Google Apps Guidebook is now available

for purchase in paperback or e-book versions!

 

GoogleAppsGuidebook.com

The Google Apps Guidebook is a set of student created lessons, activities and projects for educators to use in their classrooms. Each lesson connects with a component from the Google Apps for Education suite of tools. Each chapter introduces an engaging project that applies numerous aspects of each tool. Projects are differentiated for a variety of age ranges and can be adapted for most content areas. Upon completion, students will have a thorough understanding of the tools included with their Google account and a collection of cool projects they created!

All profits are used for students to provide support to more educators. 

TechSherpas.org 

Thank you for supporting the work for Kern Kelley and his Tech Sherpa students.  

Click HERE for information on bulk purchases.

The Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #70 Announcing The Google Apps Guidebook!

With tremendous excitement the Tech Sherpas would like to announce the launch of our book,

The Google Apps Guidebook

 

The lessons and activities found in this book are designed for educators to teach students about Google Apps for Education. The hope is that these students will then go on to teach others and learn through the process.
Authors: Austin Taylor and Britney Bubar with Kern Kelley
Please fill out this form to Pre-Order the Google Apps Guidebook.

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The Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #69 Dallastown Student Summit

In 2012 I was invited to present at the Google Teacher Academy in Google’s New York City office. Now known as the Google Certified Innovator Academy, this is a professional development opportunity for educators from around the world. At the event, educators receive learning from teachers and Googler's. I was thrilled to be involved and wanted to share the experience with my students. I asked the Google in Education team if I could bring them to present with me and they enthusiastically agreed.

Since that time, my long term goal has always been to work with students, teaching and providing experiences for them to give back to the educational community. We called these students Tech Sherpas. A helpful guide for anyone who needs it. During the years my students and I have produced a live technology support show and presented at hundreds of conferences. That work has culminated into a book that will be published soon.

 

The Google Apps Guidebook

The lessons and activities found in this book are designed for educators to teach students about Google Apps for Education. Ultimately, these students will go on to teach others, learning throughout the process. This dream came to fruition at the EdTechTeam Student Summit in Dallastown Intermediary School.   While no one knows what will come next, we do know that whatever happens, these students are prepared for anything.

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The Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #67 "What is Breakout EDU?"

This host this week are Zach and Kern.

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Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #67 Alan November's Building Learning Communities Conference

This hosts this week are Jacob, Britney and Emily.

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Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #66 Going to School with Telepresence

This host this week is Kern and Jasmine.

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Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #65 Migrating Graduating Student's Google Accounts

This host this week are Austin and Kern.

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The Tech Sherpas - Episode #64: Google Maps Engine

This host this week are Jake and Laura.

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The Tech Sherpas - Episode #63: A Robot Named Sully

This host this week are Zach, Kern, Macie and Cassidy.

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Student Magic!

It was a historic week for the Tech Sherpas. Thanks to EdTechTeam, four students from central Maine joined me for educational opportunities across Alberta, Canada. The students presented to over 1,000 educators from around Edmonton. 

(and won the Demo Slam :)

The week was capped off with an amazing Student Summit at Black Gold Regional School District in LeDuc. 150 students coded, animated, modded, taught, learned and so much more. The event culminated with one group of little wizards creating a district wide student tech team website. Collaboratively, students researched domain names, designed logos, and built a custom website for their school board with links, resources, and lots of selfies! 

The whole thing can be found at www.studentmagic.org

I was amazed at how quickly that one idea, forty-five minutes and thirty amazing students could take the building blocks of a transformational project that will help teachers, give back to the community and ultimately provide a platform for all the students to learn.

So, what are you waiting for - go get started!!

The Tech Sherpas - Episode #62: The Sherpas Tour Alberta!

This host this week are Austin, Jake, Zach and Kern.

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Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #61 Making Sure You're Signed Out!

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #60 - Google Books Bookshelf

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #59 We chat with Mrs. Mageria's Student Innovation Team

This host this week are Austin and Kern.

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Tech Sherpa Show Episode #58: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

This host this week are Jake, Austin and Britney.

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The Infinite Thinking Machine

The Tech Sherpas made it on The Infinite Thinking Machine!  It's an introduction to some of the work the students do helping educators around the world.

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #57 Maps Engine Lite and the Global Education Conference

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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The Art of Deliberate Patience

It was the first snow day of the year on Monday, (November 3rd, by the way, the earliest in my recollection but who's counting) and we did all the typical snow-man-day things, but one of the unexpected benefits was that we lost power and the Internet for the day. Usually that's an imposition of course, but we had a generator and nowhere to be so we came up with our own entertainment.

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I remember one of my favorite past-times as a child was building card houses. We had drawers full of partial decks that were never thrown out and I would transform them into impossible towers and forts. I hadn't thought about them until (after a cut throat family tournament of UNO) my son and I started new construction!  


I would build, build, build and watch half a tower fall down just to build, build, build again. What I realized is that learning how the tower falls became an integral aspect of the final product itself. And most importantly, I learned a kind of patience in this iteration process. Deliberate patience is something our kids don't experience much these days.  (A friend of mine said, "Try watching your T-Ball player wait for a hit in deep right and you'll appreciate patience." ) Developing a practiced patience that comes from stacking cards I was encouraged how long my boys were willing to stick with it.

(My personal record as a child was nine tiers high and something I'm still proud of.)