This week I am going to dedicate my posts to sharing resources I learned about at TCEA in Austin last week. I think packing too much info into a blog post is overwhelming, so if you are craving more, feel free to check out my notes (which are not finished yet!) here.
I was chatting with one of my colleagues, Kim Ball (@gttechguru) during TCEA last week, and she mentioned a cool activity she had done on her campus called, “Goo in the Loo.” This is not as disgusting as it might sound. Basically, she posted Google tips in the adult bathrooms so teachers could learn more about ways to take advantage of all of Google’s cool features. Awesome!
Goo in the Loo is an idea that was originally proposed by Jessica Johnston (@edtechchic) as a Google Teacher Academy Action Plan. You can read more about Jessica’s project here. She also provides pre-made Goo in the Loo posters on her site. So, you can easily put this plan into place on your own campus by just printing out Jessica’s awesome, crowd-sourced posters.
I plan to utilize Jessica’s posters, but I also wanted to make some of my own. Not all of them are going to be Google tips, so I needed a title that was a bit more generic. In the interest of making a rhyming blog post as well as using a cute graphic that has been declared free to use, I’m going with “Stuff You Wish You Gnu.” (It turns out GNU is a free operating system, but that’s not really where I was going with that.)
Here is a link to my “Stuff You Wish You Gnu” folder. I will be adding to it as I create new posters. Feel free to use and distribute as you see fit!
