Google I/O 2013

15, 16, 17 May 2013

I am always so excited to attend this event. I feel privileged to receive an early invitation when it is such a difficult ticket to get and people come from all over the world to attend. It's always fun to meet former students there and catch up on what they are doing now.

The gift this year is a Chromebook Pixel laptop that has:

-a touch screen,

-the highest pixel density of any laptop,

-Chrome browser only, no desktop computation (no Word, etc),

-two years of free Verizon cell service.

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/

Google technologies that I learned about:

Cross platform single sign on (e.g. Sign on from your ipad and your laptop is automatically signed on too.)

Android Studio IDE built on IntelliJ

All access music service for $8 / month

Web GL on Chrome for graphics (they made maps with it.)

C++ to Javascript compiler via ASM.js

webP image format which is 30% smaller than jpg

Google play for education (developer.android.com/edu)

Hangouts app

Google search app for iphone – has "Google now" built in

Gamestorming: a great way to solve problems, especially in teams.

           bit.ly/gamestorming-cheatsheet

I need to review the following collaboration tools as alternatives to CCC Confer:

Scoot & Doodle

http://scootdoodle.com/

Google hangouts

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/

5-12 ideal number for a hangout

Students need to know: etiquette, agenda, silence OK, prompt arrival, experiment!

Finding: Students want to participate in, but not start, hangouts

User interface design was a popular topic here. I especially liked this session on "Cognitive Science and Design"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2exxj4COhU