Have you checked out the new items in the Google Store?

I have been a Google girl/Google jockey/Google user for at least a decade and I still share this link with people who have never visited the Google Store. My mother often jokes that if the Google store sold underwear/panties/drawers she would buy them for me every Christmas.

So when people ask where did you get that shirt, gadget, sticker, mouse pad or whatever item of interest...I share the link or just tell them to Google the Google Store. You will be prompted to select your location for a shipping location: US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. It is OK to check on another area to see what is available even if you don't live there and practice your currency conversion too!

The Google Store has something for everyone, from stickers, bibs, things to wear, to collectibles to a section for YouTube gear. Select a category: Apps, Accessories, Fun, Kids, Office, Wearables, or Doodles, search the site, or review top sellers, what's new, eco-friendly, or specials, shop by size, color, or select sort options.

Eco Friendly References

Of course, all of the no cost Google digital products and Google Labs are always cool to share tinkering time with someone.

Remember...just because you know about it, tinkered with it, or visited the site...many of your friends, peers, coworkers, supervisors, administrators have never gone beyond the search screen of Google unless it was to click on the Google Doodle. Encourage others to tinker and explore, regardless of the device they use to access the Net.

*This blog post was created for those who are interested in visiting the Google Store. I am a user of Google products, not an employee. No discount, gifts, freeware, or special privileges were offered in the creation or deployment of this post.

 

What are you really teaching? learning? sharing?

If you are lucky enough to work, volunteer, raise, and/or influence others...do you take the time to really listen to what they are saying? Can you hear what they are saying by their words, actions, or inactions?


When is the last time you conducted a self assessment on your progress?  Are you the cobbler whose children have no shoes? Take some time and listen to your replacements. Listen to them as they ask for assistance, provide suggestions, and feel defeated when they watch the adults participate in the Blame Game.


What is your role in the Blame Game? Participant? Bystander? Blamer? Oxygen Thief? Mover? Shaker? Solution provider? Lead by example? Virtual Suggestion Box provider?


Parents, teachers, students, administrators, taxpayers, politicians, community apathy, oxygen thieves, self serving interest groups....you can add labels to the list but what is your role? At one point in time, from the womb to the tomb, you became a student in some type of learning system in life, either as an autodidact or a  participant of a learning system whether it was a public / private / home / charter / magnet / virtual school system. Many people continue to learn long beyond the classroom and throughout life. You may own one or more labels, by choice or by association, but you started somewhere. You can continue as is or you can change.


The cycle continues until we break the cycle even if it is one person at a time. What are you doing to break the cycle of passive acceptance? How do you empower others who want to change? Regardless of your role by profession or self labeling by choice, your actions or inactions are being observed and modeled whether you realize or not.


Do your words, actions, digital or F2F match your actions?


Some quotes about change, listening, learning that have been brought to my attention by some of the young adults I volunteer with: 


Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard


Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. Henry L. Doherty



A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end s/he may disagree sharply, but because s/he disagrees, s/he wants to know exactly what it is s/he is disagreeing with. Kenneth A. Wells

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. Richard Hooker

From Robert M. Hutchins:

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Do you step in to be one part of the solution for those who will eventually replace you? What are you really teaching, learning, and/or sharing?

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