Teachers has been using the GSuite for Education for a while now, but they tend to only use the Google Classroom or the Gmail only. There are various tools inside GSuite that promote faster collaboration and program management.
The training which happened on June 4, 2019 and served a total of 20 teachers and academic staff. The training introduced them to GSuite tools such as sites, docs, and spreadsheets as well as the project management tool Trello. The center hopes that the trainees will echo their knowledge to their respective offices.
The training saw the participants learn about the GSuite for Education tools included in their UP-System email. The system was used to create a collaboration space for the teachers to work together. They were included in a team drive in google and they started working on the task they are assigned to. They learned how to chat within documents and give comments and suggest revisions. These are important collaboration techniques and skills that they must teach their students. Academic staffs were also able to take part of the training and the project management software Trello and the GSuite collab tool tend to be very important for them. At the end of the session, they were grouped and worked on 4 documents to show the team. Some work on presentations, documents, and spreadsheets. Some created websites. All of them reported and delivered reporting of the task completion on Trello.
This training will hopefully allow the teachers to participate in the UP TAP (teaching asset program) and their pioneer students in the UP StEP (educational parallel support program).