It was in 2012 when the Department of Education rolled out the DepEd Email to streamline communications within the organization and to provide a platform in integrating technology in the classroom. With the huge number of workforce, DepEd, in partnership with Google, asked a private company to develop a website that will help DepEd's personnel from the Central Office down to the schools in acquiring their DepEd Email. To support this objective, a national memorandum was released on December 26, 2012 entitled DepEd Memorandum No. 227 Series of 2012 or the Guidelines on the Use of the DepEd Email Service. This memorandum can be accessed here .  For DepEd Employees, they can claim their account here in this website:  https://depedverify.appspot.com Claimed accounts would have a format like this:  firstname.lastname@deped.gov.ph For classroom teachers, they may be skeptical why they should have a separate email account than their personal one. Here's a rundown of the

At this day of age, there is a great demand to educate our learners with ways that can safeguard them online. Google, being the world's primary search engine, took an initiative to provide resources that will teach digital safety to both educators and learners.  For learners Learn Digital Safety the fun way by entering the world of Interland   that has 4 islands which will expose learners with different tips on being safe online.  The first island is the  Kind Kingdom  where learners are expected to be a  positive influencer, bully blocker  and a  righteous reporter. The user is the blue player. Take  a role of someone who collects "love" and giving it to others that are alone or bullied. There are tools to fight bullies, too!  Winning this island gives a summary of what a learner should do...to spread positivity, to block mean-spirited or inappropriate behaviors and to speak up against bullying. The second island is the Real

To be honest, Blogger is one of the Google Apps that needs an overhaul or an update at least. Most apps are already "Googley" and available in mobile but not Blogger. Recently, it introduced 4 new themes that may suffice enough for an overdue update.  The 4 NEW themes are:  Contempo, Emperio, Notable and Soho Emperio Notable Soho These new themes looks yuppie and millenial so you might want to try one of it. I'm actually using Notable.