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GAFE Admin Console Retreat

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On July 29, 2015, we will be hosting a GAFE Admin Console Retreat at Holyoke Community College. Register here. Click here to see the full agenda.

Whether you are in the serious consideration phase of migrating to Google Apps for Education or deep in the throes of going Google, you will leave with best practices and knowledge of the most current admin console developments.

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Power Tools for Google Sheets

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Technology doesn’t always make our lives easier, so when it saves you a full day of work, that is blog-worthy. The Power Tools Add-on for Google Sheets had me doing cartwheels around the office.

We used Power Tools to prepare some Sheets for our billing office. In years past, we have suffered through hours and sometimes days of tedious formatting in Sheets. Back then, I took the time to learn a few formulas that helped speed things up, but nothing made the process feel easy. Until Power Tools for Google Sheets.

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What Students (and Teachers) Want

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In the recent article “Five Things I Want Teachers to Know About EdTech,” student and tech enthusiast Collin Sullivan perfectly said what I’ve known about EdTech tools since I started in this field:

If you aren’t having fun, you’re using the wrong one. These tools are supposed to eliminate stress – or at least reduce the amount of stress. If you aren’t enjoying edtech, your students probably aren’t either.

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