Brazil has about 120,000 municipal schools, and all of them can benefit from Google for Education. A complete package of tools for students and teachers to use at home, for principals to use at school, and for everyone to use in the classroom. Never heard of it? Then don’t waste any more time and discover now the 3 pillars of Google for Education:
• Google Apps for Education: Students learn more when they work together. For this, Google for Education offers the same tools as Google Apps for Work.
• Gmail: The best email service in the world, which also includes Hangouts, a chat tool.
• Google Hangout: For various reasons, it can be difficult for students to meet outside or even inside the school to write group assignments. With Hangout, it becomes very easy to hold video conferences.
• Google Drive: A personal cloud to store files, photos, documents, videos, and whatever else the student needs. Files can be shared so that everyone with access to the links can edit them at any time.
• Google Docs: Google Docs includes Google Documents, Presentations, Sheets, Drawings, and Forms. All are very easy to use, come with various features, and produce files compatible with programs like Microsoft Office, for example.
• Google Sites: Created to share and provide simple access to information online. It allows for website management. For example, a teacher can create a site to share content of their subject with students.
• Google Calendar: A great app for scheduling appointments, such as tests, assignments, sports competitions, and other deadlines. Students no longer have an excuse to forget anything!
• Chromebooks for Education: Chromebooks for Education is the ultimate solution for hardware problems in schools, or, in other words, the problem of computer scarcity. They are Samsung laptops fully integrated with Google Apps for Education. The computers are thin, beautiful, lightweight, and extremely fast. The battery can last up to 7 hours in use, and the computer remains cool and quiet.
• Google Play for Education: The third pillar of Google for Education consists of a platform of applications designed specifically for use in the classroom, on devices like tablets. Among the possibilities, which include paid and free apps, are:
• Explain Everything: To create multimedia presentations and online classes.
• Book Creator: For students or teachers to create their own books.
• Comic Strip It! Pro: Comic strips have always been part of the Enem and entrance exams, right? Now, with this tool, students can make their own comic strips.
• Sumo Paint: To edit images and create digital art.
• Socrative 2.0: To easily create quizzes and polls.
• Quiz-let: For students to create and share summaries and notes.
• Math Workout Pro: An arithmetic workout every day.
• TypingClub: For students to learn to type faster and faster.
• Books: Many, many digital books, including textbooks and literature. In use for six years in Europe and the United States, Google for Education was recently adopted by all schools in Malaysia, a service for 10 million students, teachers, and principals. Did you see how this package of benefits can help in students’ education and teachers’ work?
Source: www.qinetwork.com.br, by Luciano Daudt