Google Educator Certification Rolling

So after missing day one of the training our county is providing for earning the Google Educator Certification, I was able to attend day two on Monday this week.  I think I'll be ok after missing day one as Gmail and Calendar were covered, and I'm pretty familiar with those already.  I'll just need to do a little refreshing before I take the exam for those two tools.  I did pick up some good study resources to help out a bit with some of the more advanced features that may come up on the exam.  I'm pretty confident in my Google knowledge though, and I'm not too worried about the actual exams.

This Monday we explored some of the more advanced tools in Google Drive, and I picked up a few new, cool tidbits along with the excitement of just learning it a little better.  The things that have me worried about this exam are 1) the test for Drive will cover a lot of material.  Between Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, and Forms along with all of the different tools associated with each one, there is a lot of material to be knowledgeable of.  And 2) with the recent new update to Drive and the fact that Google is in the middle of updating these exams to reflect this new update, I don't know whether to jump in now and take the old version of the exam or wait for the new version to come out with questions over the "New Drive."  Timing is everything, right?

We also took a very brief look at Google Sites.  I've used Sites a little, but I would consider it the tool that I'm the least knowledgeable of.  I haven't really built a full scale Google Site yet, but I have dabbled and I continue to get better.  If anyone is interested in what I have done, "Sites-wise," feel free to check out the Site I set up to serve as a digital portfolio of my daughter's education.  We started it last year to reduce the amount of paper that our pack-rat daughter thought she had to keep.  It's been fun, but definitely needs some updating done for this year.

All in all, I have a little studying to do, but very soon I'll be jumping in to take these five exams and earn my Google Educator label.  From there, it will come the time to start pursuing acceptance into the Google Teacher Academy.