Google Web Academy for Trainers

The blog for the last Google Web Academy training held with the Appleseeds Academy has been long overdue hence I’m not going to bore you with introductions.

This event took place on Monday, the 26^th of August, 2013 to Friday, the 30^th of August, 2013 at the CKC in Kumasi. This training was different from the first one in that it was held for trainers. So there were a lot of CKC managers, teachers and other guys like me J

So Coby and Shirly were from Appleseeds , Collins, a Google Student Ambassador , Audrey and Dave were volunteers plus myself and we helped Coby and Shirly give the training to the 15 participants.

Aside giving them training on the various Google products like Maps Engine, Earth, News, Translate, Drive, Gmail, Chrome, Blogger, Trader, Google + and YouTube, there were sessions on how to give trainings. They got to know about knowing their audience and training them in Google products that will help their target audience to be adept in their work, as well as the various techniques to have up their sleeves whiles giving trainings.

To be web academy trainers, we had to take the Google Web academy exam. Every person passed the exam and at the end of the training, we were all certified to be Google Web Academy trainers.  For the record, I had 88% :) Thus the onus lies on each participant as well as the volunteers to organize such trainings for others to enable them know how the internet as a whole can help them in their business and the wide range of Google products can be of use to them in their workplaces.

There were sessions where the participants were allowed to give  miniature trainings on some of the Google products (with some examples being Keep and Alerts) while making use of the tips  which were taught.

Just to let you know of the many products of Google, I’m including a list of Google Products and you can check it out to find out about the others. Find them here.  In case you know of a Google product which is not listed, you can let us all know the said product by posting it in a comment to this blog so we also keep abreast with that technology.

You can also join the community of the participants on  +Google Web Academy for Trainers and contribute on it. Or follow the hastags 
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