Opportunity For Pre-University Student (GSOC 2014)

Here's an opportunity for Pre University Students, please share with your networks and any secondary schools that you've been working with.

"The Google Code-in is a global, online contest introducing 13-17 year old pre-university students to open source development that will begin in a couple of weeks on November 18th. This is our fourth year to run the contest, we've had over 1200 students participate in the last 3 years from 71 countries. Students work on tasks in categories such as coding, documentation, outreach, UI and research for 10 open source projects (including KDE, Sahana Software Foundation, Wikimedia, Drupal and Sugar Labs)"

So student whoare in JSS and SSS who have some kind of Coding ability can Take part in the challenge

Videos of how this challenge runs is below

Published by :Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi

GOOGLE GROUPS

On the 6th of November, 2013 undertook a training of how to use one of google's apps called GOOGLE GROUPS. One might ask what is google groups? It is a free service from Google Inc. that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests.

1.One should first and foremost open the browser(Google chrome ,Mozilla, explorer and so on)

2.When you open any of the browsers go to the address bar at the top of your browser and type Google groups.com in the address bar or another may type google.com and type google groups in the search engine.

3. After opening google groups, one has to create a group . If you are using google groups for the first time, the create group tab is found on the extreem left corner of the google group home page. Click on it and a from will pop up where you will have to provide certain details expected of you.
4.Fill out the details which are very important and apply
5.After you are than creating the group you can search for group to see whether the group.
Below is a video on how to create a google group

Published By:Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi
                    & Immanuel Toffah

Google Scholarship And Opportunities For Student

Google Has re-opened the Aninata Borg Scholarship ones again this year and the scholarship is basically aimed at support female student who are passsionate about tech in education and willing to make a difference in the tech industry and also scholarship for the disabled student which it aime is to brake the barriers of the ability world,so various student who are interested should visit this link Google Opportunities



Published By: Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi(GSA)

FUN EVENT

On the 31st October,2013 the Google Club was to have a hand on training one of google's apps called Google Groups,but unfortunately the internet service was very bad so the training could not take place. In the upsence of internet, my team and I decided to have a fun event.

The fun event involved dancing,trivia question and brain teasers(riddles). my team and I asked simple goggle questions and the audience and members answered favorable,the dance we organized were local dances like azonto,skela and ninetees dance and it was very awesome. Everybody was extremely excited. These are some videos from the meeting.

The battle was between our very own Olele vrs Emmanuel who treated the club to a very exciting time. After the fun event, former president of the Google Club Andy Akwei advised the club in general using a ten dollar note to teach members about life. The meeting was brought to a close after a prayer by one of our members.

Published by Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi                     
      Google Student Ambassador(GSA) and
           Immanuel Tofuah
                           

GET YOUR STUDENT CERTIFIED(GYSC)

Get Your Student Certified is program aimed at promoting web literacy,online basics and internet safety on campus.This program is aimed at the freshmen and any other levels so that after their than with the program they would end up with a certified certificate from Google. The event Timeline is from 26th  October 2013 to 2nd December 2013.I hope you guys participate because it is very important to each and everybody after the training on Some of Google major product an exams would be taken of which each and every body have to pass in other to have a certificate and it would be added to your list of resumes.
To start the course please click hear GYSC












ByJesse Asiedu-Akrofi
    Google Student Ambassador(GSA)

GMAIL PRESENTATION

On The 23^rd of October the Google technology Club Had their first club Training event which was on Gmail(Google Mail).The Club had new members(level 100) of which we welcomed  and  had fun with them in our fun segment which consisted of Brian tizers and other fun activity, also swags and other price were given out participating candidate. After all the activities we started the presentation of GmailOne might ask what is Gmail?.Gmail is an online mail service provided by Google to it users to send mails through email address and also provided variety of fuction and features which help its user. Today iam going to teach people around the world and in those in the Google club how to create Gmail account and enjoy the various features it provide, in create a Gmail:

1.One should first and foremost open the browser(Gchrome,Mozilla,Iexplorer and so on)

2.When you open any of the browsers goto the address bar at the top of your browser and type Gmail.com or one can prefer to type Google.com at the address bar  the google home will open, it consist of the search the person can search or gmail or can click on the new grid button on the top right and  gmail would open

3. After opening gmail one has to create an account if you are using gmail for the first time,this create account tab is found at the far right corner of the gmail home page click on it and a form would open where one has to type various information.

4.After one is done signing up or creating an account he or she is given a user name and password, try signing in with this user name and password word to see whether your email address and password are working

5.When you sign  into gmail,there a lot of features the the gmail web mail provides .      

6.One can compose a message by clicking the compose tab and compose a message

7.One can also star his or mail which is very important

8.One can organize his or her information by creating Lables

6.One can create a signature for everybody to see his contact details

7.One can customize gmail page by adding theme

8.Gmail also allows you to send emails from your phone to any mail provided one has synced gmail with mobile phone , this feature could applied on feature phones aside smart phones,one would  be provided with 30 credit to use and the most interesting thing is that one can get 7 credit more added to the credit if one replies to a message.

9.Gmail enables you to undo save a message,thus when you send a message which you fill it’s not good one can undo save  message and send a new one

10.If you want to add new features to your email go to Labs which found in the seeting to add a new fature.

Remember that Gmail is vital to google and it could be used in your homes ,school and office,if any of you did not get this blog post please vist google support group for assistance or and  google resource help service for support