Even Clearer Instructions

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116101841851812348659

or watch and follow the Youtube video below

Blogging with Google Blogger

I hope that these videos assist you with the set up of your class blogs.

Uploading your first template

Creating a Second Page and Linking them through the menu

Adding Useful Links to Your Page

Using Advanced Settings to Personalise Your Template

Turn Your Notifications On

If  you are not receiving notifications via your phone despite entering your phones details please ensure that your Notifications are turned on.

Clearer instructions

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116101841851812348659

If you prefer to use online Youtube type tutorials then you can also follow my step by step tutorial.

You will need to move between the 2 tabs 

(1 being your own tab to create your Google account and the other for the tutorial)

Once you have completed all of the tutorial steps you are invited to join our Ardtornish+ Community by clicking on the link below.

Ardtornish+ - https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116101841851812348659

Then join the community by clicking on the red join community button.

Congratulations and welcome.

Here We Go 2014

Week 1 down.

• Firstly all 1057 domain members are successfully syncing from our school server to our Google Administrator Platform. (644 parents, 368 students & 45staff)
• 149 students successfully logged in and using.
• 58 invited and now accepted authors of a class Book Blog.
• 6 teachers and their classes now with Teacher Dashboard classrooms.

What a week considering there was only 4 days and lets face it Week 1 has enough to do already. So helpful that students are excited to use this new learning platform (some students have used it for 2 years and still excited to have their own account). It's also been wonderful to have a teaching staff that wants to explore and invest their time in this expansion and adjustment of a tool that we are already using.

The only hitch came in the form of some annoying password hitches with the students.  Saying this, any problem can become a great learning experience. The fact is that now myself and 4 other staff members know how to quickly change a password when requested. Through the Admin console it couldn't really be much easier.

Next:: This week: The Staff  

Approved

So all the kerfuffle was alleviated by a quick phone call to Google. Spoke to a good fellow in Ireland and he treated me like I was one of the gang already.
What did Irish googler do in under 15 minutes:

• Direct link fixed for application
• Waited on the phone while I fixed my application
• Treated me like a paying customer and really positively talked about the product
• Rushed through my application
• Had me approved within 24 hours of the phone call
• Sent me every link I will ever need to be the ultimate admin of a Google School

I must say I was impressed

Here's to Irish Googler

No lets get started

Here we go

Well the holidays and some poor timing couldn't have been at a worse time but the ball is now rolling. Actually I now feel a little like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark as the boulder starts chasing him down the cave tunnel. All of a sudden the idea of becoming a Google School is about to become true...I'm not even packed.

I am awaiting the last confirmation of our Education qualification and then it's all go.

Starting to think about account migrations, parent contact improvements, student access, student and home linked learning, Teacher Dashboard and so many other things.

If anyone has been through this process and would like to assist me or offer any advice please don't hesitate.

Once confirmation has been given and I feel completely successful I will detail the process so far and hopefully begin to divulge the wonderful things that happen thereafter.