#ISTE2014 road trip – day 3.
It was a long day in the car today. We drive over 600 miles and had to get through major congestion near Chattanooga. It happened to be the opening of Google IO and we have plenty of data left for the month. The keynote took about 2.5 hours an we then followed that up with the This Week in Google 2 hour analysis.
The IO event seemed very much like Apple’s WWDC. Unlike some years when new devices are announced, the focus was on software and what seemed like improved integration of existing services.
There was no specific mention of capabilities that would be of value to educators. This was a conference for developers so such potential for the classroom would not be featured.
Here is what I thought might be the potential take aways for education:
1) Improved casting capabilities with Chromecast should bring an inexpensive way to “cast” whatever can be viewed on a phone or tablet to a large television.
2) Google Play for Education offers an improved way to load resources to student devices.
3) Google drive will not allow editing of more file types in their native formats. You can edit a Microsoft file as a Microsoft file.
