Google kind of day

Yesterday was all about Google. First the domain administrator was finally able to cross all of the red tape and give my students access to our GAFE accounts. That alone made yesterday Christmas for me. We are going to spend a day just playing in Google. I'm going to let them explore the tools, and ask them to figure out a way to use the tool to explain a concept that we have learned or are going to learn, you know just in case admin comes in and wants to know why we're playing around. :)

You would have thought that would have been the highlight of my day, but it wasn't. The moment I received the email inviting me to the Google Teacher Academy in Austin was one of the greatest moments of my educational career. In the moments since that event, my phone has been blowing up. Between the voxer chat, the G+ updates, the hangout notifications, and the twitter notifications, my phone is living on the charger. I may need to trade it in for an android before December.

I am still amazed that I was one of the 50 educators to get into this Google Academy. Out of the hundreds who applied, I was selected!