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Collaborative Notes with Docs or Slides

• Buddy up with your team or friends and take collaborative notes.
• When everyone attends different sessions, you all walk away with collective knowledge and resources.
• Docs suggestion - Create a table of contents or divide the pages in a way that makes sense. Tables are also handy. (Kasey’s Alan November story.)
  • Collaborative Notes with Google Docs
• Slides suggestion - New slide for each session gives natural division to your notes.

Google Keep

• Take notes in Keep, share with your team or teacher friends
• Use the Keep extension to add bookmarks of resources and presentations
• Add audio, photos, or even annotate or draw
• Use the mobile app and add notes with dictation on the fly
• Grab text from a photo of a presenter slide or (gasp!) paper handout
• Google Keep Cheat Sheet
• Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students

Chrome

• Use Chrome bookmarks and bookmark manager to save all your links and organize into a folder for the conference.

Google Photos

• Lots of people take pictures of links and presenter slides (as well as selfies)
• Sync new photos to your Google Photos collection
• Create an album and share with others

Jamboard

• Can use the web app without an interactive panel
• There’s a mobile app, too
• Swap between devices
• Take photos with your phone, draw with your finger
• Draw with a stylus and add sticky notes on the app with a tablet
• Use dictation tools (voice typing) to add text quickly
• Integrates with Google Photos AND Google image search
• Collaborate with others
• View notes across platforms

Hangouts Chat

• Backchannel to stay connected with your peeps.
• Discuss and share ideas and questions.

Edcamp.org

How to Maximize the Edcamp Experience

15 building blocks to a meaningful conference experience

Wakelet

• Grab social media posts (tweets, etc.) and add to a Wakelet collection
• Take your notes in Wakelet, adding text with titles above each session you go to
• Adding links creates a website card instead of just a link, giving you a preview
• Embed videos
• Upload a PDF (session materials)
• Also, add previous posts (bookmarks) to your collection
• Collaborative Wakelet collections: create shared notes with buddies or colleagues

Evernote

• Create a notebook for the conference
• Take notes and use the web clipper to save all the links and notes in one space.
• Add images and audio
• Searchable (even text in images)

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Sarah Kiefer (Speakpipe)

• Cam Ross (Melbourne, Australia) -- Just re-listened to Episode 18 to learn some more about what Google Slides can do, and came across the DriveSlides Chrome extension. What an amazing tool, and one that I have been able to use with the family pics at home but also with school-based projects. Keep up the amazing work, as I am learning so much each and every episode.

On The Blogs

• Matt - 30 activities for any Depth of Knowledge level (Slides vocab cards Stella, applied digital skills Amy DeFriese, Google Slide sticky notes/infographics)
• Kasey -  The Google Certified Trainer Ultimate Planner & Checklist
  • Google Certification Courses open on May 21st!
    • (1) The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy
    • (2) The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy
    • (3) The Google Certified Trainer Academy

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