QCGAFE: Full Schedule

We invite you to join us for the first annual Google in Education Montreal Summit produced by EdTech Team, to be held at theLakeside Academy on December 7th & 8th, 2013. This high intensity two day event focuses on deploying, integrating, and using Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education. The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, and representatives from the Google education teams.

Register now to send teachers, administrators, tech directors, library media specialists, tech support staff, CTOs, and anyone who is interested in finding out more about leveraging Google Apps for Education to support student learning.

Resources

PDF of Sessions

10:00am PST

Google in the classroom and in your school - so simple - so powerful

This session will share the benefits of Google for communication and collaboration with students and colleagues. Authentic examples of how one can use Google apps for assessment, learning activities, consolidation, connection and reflection as well as parent conferencing and portfolio building.

Speakers

Karen Beutler

ACL - Technology Integration, Harbord CI - Toronto District School Board

Karen Beutler is currently an Assistant Curriculum Lead – Technology Integration and a Business and Computer Studies teacher at Harbord Collegiate Institute. She was a leader and developer of the Toronto District School Board ICT Standards K – 12 and the Computer Studies Student... Read More →

Saturday December 7, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Room 314

Regular Session

Strand #gettinggoing
Language English

11:30am PST

Student-Created Instructional Material: Integrating Techsmith and Google

Giving students the opportunity to create instructional material and teach their peers fosters deep level learning and motivation. See how students have been using Techsmith software to teach their peers and learn how to integrate Techsmith software with Google apps to easily provide opportunities for students to create their own instructional material.

Speakers

Meredith Derian-Toth

Student, McGill University

My name is Meredith Derian-Toth and I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology at McGill University. This year is dedicated to finishing my thesis, for which a colleague and I have developed a blog that communicates educational research to teachers. The... Read More →

Saturday December 7, 2013 11:30am - 12:30pm PST
Room 314

Summit Partner

Strand #gearingup, #gettinggeeky, #technical
Language English

1:30pm PST

Knowledge management and student activity monitoring in Google Apps with Hapara tools

With Hapara you can ...View activity in Google Apps organized by class and student, Automatic generation of class and student folders, Next generation file sharing with differentiated push capability, Oversee student email activity, blog posts, Google Plus, comments, and more, Easily reset student passwords, Add and remove students from class without touching the SIS, Provide read only access to parents without generating parent accounts, Remotely Control student browsers and MORE! What will you do with an extra hour a day?

Speakers

Chris Buja

VP Business Development, Hapara

Chris Buja founded Summit Preparatory Charter High School, among the top ranked public high school in the country. He serves as VP of Business Development for Hapara, the world's leading classroom platform for Google Apps for Education. His prior experience includes Google datacenters... Read More →

Saturday December 7, 2013 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 314

Summit Partner

Language English

3:00pm PST

Moving your web-filter to the cloud with Google Apps and Securly

Securly is a cloud-based web-filter that has been built from the ground up for K-12 schools. It is the only web-filter which is fully integrated with Google Apps for Education. Securly allows for seamless filtering of your take-home Chromebooks and iPads as they move from the home to the school network and anywhere in-between. This session will give you an overview of the product, answer questions on your current web-filtering needs and show you how easy it is to setup and trial at your school or district.

Speakers

Bharath Madhusudan

Co-founder/CTO, Securly

Bharath is co-founder and CTO of Securly. Prior to Securly, he held architect/research roles at various network security companies - Huawei Symantec, McAfee and Qualys. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelors in CS from the University... Read More →

Saturday December 7, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Room 314

Summit Partner

Language English

10:00am PST

Search: Effective and Efficient Ways At Information Acquisition

This session will cover the many ways in which you can conduct more efﬁcient and effective searches. We will cover how to use search operators, searching by speciﬁc ﬁle type, visual search, time line, domain speciﬁc, and ﬁnally image search strategies.

Speakers

Ken Shelton

Global Keynote Specialist and Educational Technology Strategist

Ken currently holds an M.A. in Education with a specialization in Educational Technology as well as New Media Design and Production. He has worked as an Educator for over 14 years and most recently taught technology at the Middle School level. As a part of his active involvement within... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Room 314

Featured Speaker

Strand #gearingup, #gettinggoing
Language English

11:30am PST

Knowledge management and student activity monitoring in Google Apps with Hapara tools

Speakers

Chris Buja

VP Business Development, Hapara

Sunday December 8, 2013 11:30am - 12:30pm PST
Room 314

Summit Partner

1:30pm PST

Using GAFE to facilitate a collaborative story re-tell project between two remote classes.

We will demonstrate the process of collaboration which began at last year’s Google summit in Kitchener and that transformed our teaching practice. Our students, who were in different cities in Ontario, were able to collaborate in real time on a story retell of "Les Trois Petits Cochons" using Google + Hangouts, Docs, Forms, Spreadsheets, Presentations and various other Chrome extensions and tools. We will be inviting attendees to participate in the collaborative story re-tell activity we experienced with our students.

Speakers

Sylvia Duckworth

Featured Speaker, Independent consultant

Sylvia Duckworth is an award-winning teacher and sketchnoting enthusiast from Toronto, Canada. She is a Google Certified Innovator, Trainer and Apple Distinguished Educator. She is the author of two books: "Sketchnotes for Educators" and "How to Sketchnote: A Step-by-Step Manual for... Read More →

Ferdinand Krauss

21st Century Learning and Information Technology Consultant, Waterloo Catholic District School Board

For the past 17 years he has been supporting educators and administrators at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels in their use of instructional technology to enhance teaching and learning. Il a aussi enseigné le Français Langue Seconde pendant 5 ans avec le programme... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2013 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Room 314

Regular Session

Strand #gettinggoing
Language English

3:00pm PST

Fusion Tables: An Adventure in Discovery & Exploration

Treasure hunting and Geocaching finds its way into our curriculum.

The Earth is our extended playground for learning. A single coordinate on a map can act as a catalyst to awesome discussions . In this session I will demonstrate how we are using Fusion Tables to engage students at the Arundel Nature & Science Centre.

JOIN ME & LEARN HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE MAP.

Speakers

Ron Turchyniak

EdTech Conference Manager, Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board

Educational Technology ConsultantInspire our Kids with this resource Kit !CSFirst: CS First program: Get Started Deck + Video | Curriculum Mapping | Coding in the Classroom | FR Resources Back to School 2022-2023 Google Canada Blog post... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Room 314

Regular Session

Strand #admin, #gearingup, #gettinggeeky, #gettinggoing, #highered, #technical
Language English