{"id":1269,"date":"2016-03-05T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2016-03-05T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T21:44:36","slug":"google-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Google Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been quite busy preparing for a major PD initiative in supporting an ever expanding number of Chromebooks and more innovated use of Google Tools. \u00a0I have to say Google has created a large number of pathways to learn it&#8217;s apps and to test ones knowledge. \u00a0I like the idea of tests and certification on these tools. \u00a0It would be a wonderful thing if schools using google apps required their teachers and new hires to be google certified teachers. \u00a0It would be good way to know they have basic tech skills which are still lacking amongst many educators.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.google.com\/learning-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Apps Learning Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com\/training\" target=\"_blank\">Google Educator Training<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trainerlearningcenter.withgoogle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Trainer Training<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been quite busy preparing for a major PD initiative in supporting an ever expanding number of Chromebooks and more innovated use of Google Tools. \u00a0I have to say Google has created a large number of pathways to learn it&#8217;s apps and to test ones knowledge. \u00a0I like the idea of tests and certification on these tools. \u00a0It would be a wonderful thing if schools using google apps required their teachers and new hires to be google certified teachers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1269\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,37,33],"tags":[211,212,127,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}