Create a Google site: some great tutorials to get you started…
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Thinking of creating a simple website without any knowledge of HTML? Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. Basically, you would follow this sequence:
Log into your Google account and go to http://sites.google.com
Click the Create button
Choose the Blank Template
Name your site. You’ll notice it creates the URL based on the name but you can change that if you wish. The name you choose must be unique in your domain.
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Office 365 core services for this post: Outlook.com, Calendar
Did you know you could share your calendar? Office 365 makes it easy, and you can choose how much of the information is shared – all of it or only some.
In Outlook.com you can add multiple calendars of other users who have shared their calendars with you to view on one screen. This is extremely useful when it comes to scheduling tutoria...
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Wednesday, November 19th, is day three of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. We had another great day of sessions and keynoteson Tuesday, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.
The list of Wednesday’s sessions, in US-Eastern Standard Time, is below. To see the the full conference schedule in your own time zone, with the direct links to session rooms, go to the conference schedule page. Follow the conference throug...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
The SA Blog Awards is a competition that is said to showcase the very best of South African blogs. Please visit http://www.sablogawards.com for information about this. I received an email to say that the registration phase for the 2014 Blog Awards is now open but ONLY UNTIL Friday 21st November…
Teachers, enter your blogs
Teachers, think about entering your blog in this showcase because there is a Best Educational Blog award. Take the chance and enter! Bloggers may ...
This is a guest post from Anthony Egbers who is Head of Technology at Dainfern College Prep School. Anthony has had the opportunity to run a BYOT programme over the past two years. He is a firm believer in the opportunities that technology provides teachers in terms of personal development and classroom opportunities. In this post he shares on launching GEG Dainfern and the current Google Educator groups (GEG) movement in South Africa This post is also featured on Anthony’s blog ...
Our congratulations go to the following sixteen Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts who are teachers from South Africa and Lesotho. If you would like to see their profiles or learning activities, please look them up on the Microsoft Educator Network. You will need to log in to the Microsoft Educator Network first.
From Brescia House School in Bryanston, Gauteng:
Jilian Cederwall:
http://www.pil-network.com/profile/details/e9586c82-d727-41e5-8edb-8b9b24543239
Lyneth Crighton:
http://www.pil-ne...
This project looks at the issue of how to harness mobile phones for learning mathematics in formal and informal learning environments with the objective of finding a sustainable, scalable, replicable, and affordable service for learners. You can register for the programme free of charge at https://momaths.nokia.com
Here is a SlideShare explaining about the programme.
Mobile Learning for Mathematics in formal / informal education in South Africa/Finland
– Riitta Vanska from SAFIP...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
From the online applications that were received and the more than 50 learning activities that were uploaded to the Microsoft Educator Network, sixteen teachers from South Africa and Lesotho were selected to be Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts (MIEs) for 2015. These teachers join a group of 800 educators from more than 100 countries around the world who will enjoy a year long experience with Microsoft as they learn more about creating an environment of innovation in e...
This is a guest post from Tiaan Lotter (@MrLotter), a Google Certified Teacher from South Africa. Tiaan is a very innovative Afrikaans teacher from Parklands College and he frequently presents at conferences around South Africa. Visit his website at . In previous guest posts Tiaan shared about his experience at the Google Teacher Academy in London; he also contributed Gone Google? Now go Advanced…; and the last post was Teaching with Twitter in #Afrikaans. Thanks for sharing so freely wi...
