186 - Summit Stuff

Day 186. I present workshops at quite a few Google Summit events and I always try to make sure I provide my workshop participants with a useful collection of resources and links afterwards so they can refer back to them later. I started a Google Site quite a while ago for this purpose, and it's continued to grow over time into quite a good resource for Google related stuff.

With a couple of Summits coming up soon I'm doing some brand new workshops so I have been adding more content to the site and generally sprucing it up a little. There is still more to add, but I'm claiming the update so far as today's daily create.

You can check out the actual site at www.summitstuff.com

113 - We All Video

Day 113. I'm at the Google Summit in Christchurch today and I sat in on Wes Warner's session about editing video with Chromebooks. Although Wes spent most of the time using the YouTube Editor, I messed about with WeVideo, a cloud based video editing tool that works in the browser.

I shot this footage on my Nexus 5, uploaded directly to WeVideo from the phone, then logged in on my computer to edit the footage. It's only a quick and simple example, but it shows what sort of video editing can be done in a browser.

107 - Five Ideas

Day 107. Yesterday was the final day of the Sydney Google in Education Summit held at PLC Sydney, where I happen to work. Although I could probably claim the Summit itself as an act of creation, I was just a small part of a much larger team that made it happen, so they deserve far more of the credit for it.

However, I was given the honor of delivering the closing keynote for the event, so I tried to wrap the talk into five main ideas each supported with some stories and examples. Some I've used before, and some were new, but I hope that they were meaningful in some way to somebody.

Today's create is the five ideas, captured here in a photo from Rob McTaggart, and posted in his Tweet...

Laughed. Cried. Got Inspired. 5 steps to edulightenment by @betchaboy as the #gafesummit ended. http://t.co/gbzWuOaKas

Thanks Rob.