Links and treasure from #migooglefest 2015 #gafe #miched @macul

MiGooglefest was a great time learning. At the top of this post is a dump of all the links. My take-aways are listed at the bottom. Explore the links and make your own take-aways.

Conference site  

Disclaimer: These are not my presentations. I am sharing links the presenters shared. They were all great. I learned a lot.

Editing, Commenting, Suggesting, Oh My!
Storytelling with Google Maps
Expeditions - Google
Google Forms Basic documentation and advanced add ons.
GoogleFest2015: Chrome Apps, Extensions, and Add-ons to Rev Up Learning
2015 - GoogleFEST - The Mysterious Parts of Google
ABC's of Google Sheets
Chromebook Tips Your Mother Never Taught You
Pimp your Chrome Browser
Lesser Known Google Treasures
Google Photos
Add-Ons For Google Docs
Kicking Your Drive into Overdrive
secret door
custom search engine want student to use only the link you curated? Use this. 

Creative Comics with Google Tools

Game of Forms 

Take Aways The key note was a challenge to teacher to listen to the students.

My storify of quotes from the Keynote
My storify of the conference in general
Create your own storify by looking at the hashtag #migooglefest

I learned about a lot of great add on to forms. You can eliminate choices, great custom notification, and create certificates using document templates.

Google photos has some nice features beyond the assistant that I already love. Just click in the search bar and see how Google sorts your photos. Google using the data from the pictures and facial recognition to allow you to search without tagging. This means you can search for the all the pictures of one of your kids without ever tagging a photo. It will also group photos according to what you take photos of. I have a search pre-built of bird pictures ( I have parrots).

Google Trends is a great tool for starting conversations. Want to want a visual display of what people are searching for all over the world? Use Google Trend Visualizer. The bottom allow search by region. The upper left waffle allows you to set the grid.

New Year Resolutions from a teacher #michEd

As teachers this is our New Year's Day. The school year starts tomorrow.  This is the first year in ten years, I will start without students. I am starting the year as an administrator but my position is blended so I maybe the mentor teacher for students as the year progresses. It's important to be intentional about our new starts so here are my resolutions.

1. Blog! Check that one off as started. The purpose of my blogging is to reflect on my leadership and growth. And micro blogging counts!!
2. Focus on language of leading a group through change. Our language frames our disposition towards the topic of conversation. Using language of growth mindset and culture of thinking can frame challenges as positive growth opportunities.
3. Take care of myself. Work cannot be the excuse not to exercise. Stress cannot be the excuse to eat poorly. You are entitled to take time out of work for your passions and your healthy habits.

Overall my resolution is self improvement, it my leadership, language, and personal health.