Tips To Help You Ace Your Google Certified Educator Level 1 Exam - E012

07/21/20 • 34 min

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In this episode, we discuss the Google Certified Educator program. We'll go over some of the benefits of the program and give you some tips to help you be successful on the Level 1 exam.

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Google Currents - new for G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education accounts

Featured Content
Google Certified Educator, Level 1

Benefits:
- How to use the Google tools effectively and efficiently
- Curriculum focuses on practices and applications
- Boosts your confidence using the tools
- Don't waste your time trying to figure out the tech stuff; focus on what matters in your classroom
- Saves you time!
How to get started:
- New curriculum Center - Educator Level 1 is under the Certifications tab
- Old curriculum Center
- 3 main sections and 13 units in total
- Review curriculum first then register for the exam ($10 USD)
- Exam details - 3 hours (180 minutes) - mostly task-oriented
Our best tips:
- Go through the curriculum provided by Google carefully - click on all the hyperlinks even if you know the tool/skill already - Example
- Focus on the skills, not the knowledge - practice using the tools!
- Use checklists to make sure you’ve covered all the skills
  - Shake Up Learning
  - Eric Curts
- Find ways to use the tools efficiently - get to know your keyboard shortcuts!
- When writing the exam, don’t worry about making things pretty! They are not looking for pretty, just that you know the skills and can do the tasks - don't be a font snob :)
- Try out the exam practice questions - there are some MC/Matching/Ranking types of questions and the practice Qs that Google provides in the Sample Exam as well as throughout the curriculum is good for practice
- Exam is divided into a short MC/Matching/Ranking section and a task-oriented section. Spend the majority of your time on the tasks!
- Don’t spend too much time looking up things during your exam - time is tight so if you do this, you’re likely to run out of time
- Use a personal email instead of your work email in case you switch districts/jobs etc.
- Choose the right exam provider for you! Kryterion/WebAssessor vs

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In this episode, we discuss the Google Certified Educator program. We'll go over some of the benefits of the program and give you some tips to help you be successful on the Level 1 exam.

If you like what you hear, we would love it if you could share this episode with a colleague or friend. And make sure you subscribe so that you don’t miss out on any new content!

We would love to hear from you – leave us a message on our FLIPGRID!
News and Updates

Google Currents - new for G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education accounts

Featured Content
Google Certified Educator, Level 1

Benefits:
- How to use the Google tools effectively and efficiently
- Curriculum focuses on practices and applications
- Boosts your confidence using the tools
- Don't waste your time trying to figure out the tech stuff; focus on what matters in your classroom
- Saves you time!
How to get started:
- New curriculum Center - Educator Level 1 is under the Certifications tab
- Old curriculum Center
- 3 main sections and 13 units in total
- Review curriculum first then register for the exam ($10 USD)
- Exam details - 3 hours (180 minutes) - mostly task-oriented
Our best tips:
- Go through the curriculum provided by Google carefully - click on all the hyperlinks even if you know the tool/skill already - Example
- Focus on the skills, not the knowledge - practice using the tools!
- Use checklists to make sure you’ve covered all the skills
  - Shake Up Learning
  - Eric Curts
- Find ways to use the tools efficiently - get to know your keyboard shortcuts!
- When writing the exam, don’t worry about making things pretty! They are not looking for pretty, just that you know the skills and can do the tasks - don't be a font snob :)
- Try out the exam practice questions - there are some MC/Matching/Ranking types of questions and the practice Qs that Google provides in the Sample Exam as well as throughout the curriculum is good for practice
- Exam is divided into a short MC/Matching/Ranking section and a task-oriented section. Spend the majority of your time on the tasks!
- Don’t spend too much time looking up things during your exam - time is tight so if you do this, you’re likely to run out of time
- Use a personal email instead of your work email in case you switch districts/jobs etc.
- Choose the right exam provider for you! Kryterion/WebAssessor vs

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Connect with EduGals:

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Part 2: Effective Blended Learning Models For The New School Year - E011

In the second of this two-part podcast, we will be diving deeper into how we as educators can prepare for a new school year, not knowing what it will look like. We will be discussing various blended learning models and how we can apply these models to face-to-face as well as distance learning scenarios. We also talk about various EdTech tools that can support blended learning.

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Featured Content:

Blended Learning Models Resources

Station-Based Learning

Works great in all panels from K-12
Breakout rooms using Google Meet for stations
Choice boards for organization - Slides Mania templates!

Flipped Classroom

Books
- Flip Your Classroom: Reaching Every Student in Every Class Every Day
- Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student Engagement
Video recording apps: EduCreations or Explain EDU (iPad), Screencastify (Chrome extension)

Project-Based Learning

PBL Works Resources

Individual Rotation Model

Differentiated stations for students
Fluency Tutor is a great tool to use for ESL students

Tool Recommendations For Blended Learning

Screencastify
Explain EDU
Google Slides
Jamboard - limitations: 20 frames max and 50 collaborators
Google Keep
ESL -

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Back-To-School: An Honest Conversation - E013

This week was totally unplanned! We did not anticipate or plan to talk about the return to school, but since it is sounding more and more like a full/normal return to school, we thought it would be a good idea to share our thoughts, reflections and also some of our ideas for how to prepare for the school year.
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We share some thoughts on:

Exposure for students to tech/building community first
Using Jamboard for getting to know you activities
Devices - 1:1 vs BYOD, ensuring all students have one
No share policies - no common supplies can be shared
Chromebooks - reshuffling/inventory
Tech tools for staff - wacom tablets for example
Common spaces issues - cafeteria, library, etc
Library spaces - engage kids online; online tutorials for staff and students; centre for school community; badge system for learning - students, and perhaps staff as well! Students: google search, plagiarism, databases; THEN tools (GSuite) - prizes (swag? badges?)
Google Certification for teachers
Pandemic paralysis - the struggle is real!
Use your PLN!

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Our Best Tips for Preparing For the New School Year