Official Google Canada Blog: August 2014

Google Play Books Making the Grade

Monday, August 18, 2014

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Google PlayPosted by Daniel Chak, Product Manager, Books

More teaching, Less tech-ing: Google Classroom Launches Today

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

When we introduced Classroom back in May, we asked educators to give it a try. The response was exciting — more than 100,000 educators from more than 45 countries signed up to try it. Today, we’re starting to open Classroom to all Google Apps for Education users, helping teachers spend more time teaching and less time shuffling papers.
The teachers of Ontario’s Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board were some of the first to use Classroom. Since May, Google Certified Teacher and WECDSB’s e-Learning expert Joe Sisco has used Classroom in professional development sessions with the Board’s educators. Joe says that teachers have found it incredibly easy to use: “It took about 5 minutes or less to create a class, have 30 teachers join the class, and push out a Google Drawing to have them sort images using a venn diagram.”
Teachers and students have been instrumental in helping us build Classroom. For example, we heard during the preview that educators don’t want to wait until an assignment is turned in to collaborate with students. Now with Classroom, teachers will be able to view and comment on students’ work to help them along the way. We’ve also heard that educators want a simple place to post information and materials about their classes, so we added an “About” page for each course as well.

Teachers can review assignments directly from Classroom and provide feedback and grades to students all in one place.
Starting today, Classroom is available in 42 languages (including Hebrew, Arabic and Persian). It also works well on mobile devices and most popular screen readers. We’ll be rolling out to more users every day, so if you go to classroom.google.com with your Apps for Education account and don’t have access yet, please check back soon!
Hopefully Classroom will help you spend a little less time at the photocopier and a little more time doing what you love—teaching.

Posted by Zach Yeskel, Product Manager, Classroom

Take a university road trip with Street View

Thursday, August 7, 2014

explore 36 new university campuses across the U.S. and CanadaUniversity of Calgary

University of Saskatchewan

University of Manitoba

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Posted by Wendy Bairos, Google Canada

Fifteen ways to change the world: Calgary student one of Google Science Fair Global Finalists

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Google Science FairWaste to Water: Biodegrading Naphthenic Acids Using Novel Sand BioreactorsHayley is one of the 15 finalistsAge Category AwardsGrand Prize AwardYouTubewebsiteGoogle Science Fair website

Posted by Wendy Bairos, Google Canada

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Google Play Books Making the Grade

More teaching, Less tech-ing: Google Classroom Launches Today

Take a university road trip with Street View

Fifteen ways to change the world: Calgary student one of Google Science Fair Global Finalists

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