Upcoming Adobe Youth Voices Webinar on 11 Nov. Join in to take a look at the Adobe Premiere Elements workspace!
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere are two great programmes to use in the classroom for media making activities. This is an invitation to join a guided tour of the Adobe Premiere Elements workspace by joining in a series of webinars. The sessions are open to all and will be held online in the iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Connect Room at http://iearn.adobeconnect.com/ayv.
How to join the webinars
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This is a message from Lucy Gray the Global Conference Co-Chair.
“If you are new to the Global Education Conference Network, we are a 19,000 member strong community of educators and others interested in connecting classrooms and furthering educational opportunities for all. My conference co-chair, Steve Hargadon, and I strongly believe that educators need to connect with others globally in order to establish the foundation for collaboration; our community is designed to foster these professional ...
Recently Google launched the Google Educator Group (GEG) program in South Africa with SchoolNetSA as the local education partner. The establishment of GEG groups along with the free GEG workshop training on offer are part of Google’s worldwide strategy to help teachers enhance the use of technology in their teaching. In late July around 25 educators met at a location in Johannesburg for a Train the Trainer weekend run by Wendy Gorton from the USA. As a result of this, GEG workshops are being offered...
The Office 365 core email service is Outlook.com, formerly known as Outlook Web App. Sending an email from Outlook.com is very easy. Just click on +new mail, and as you type in the name of the recipient, Outlook will offer you suggestions. Once you have entered the names of your recipients, type out the body of your message and add attachments such as documents or images if you need to. Click on send and your email will be delivered to the recipients.
Take some time to explore Outlook.com a...
Yesterday I was pointed to this wonderful iEARN collaborative global digital storytelling project ‘Folk Tales/Storytelling around the world’. This has been a popular global digital storytelling project since 2006 with variations on the project title from year to year… and it is still going. The current project runs from September 2014 – March 2015
I took a look at the description of the current project, found at http://collaborate.iearn.org/space-2/group-83/about in the IEARN proj...
Often, after an exciting event one wants to create a chronological story from all the tweets shared on a specially created Twitter hashtag as a memory of the events before the tweets disappear . My usual tweet archiver has not been working well lately so I decided to try Chirpstory.com created by a team in Japan to curate the tweets from the recent Google Innovation Tour in Cape Town. (I wrote a post about the Google Innovation Tour in Cape Town which can be read here.)
1. Create a Chirpstory account a...
TeachMeets are a fantastic opportunity for meaningful and enjoyable professional development. Stirling Primary and Clarendon Primary in East London take it in turns to run a TeachMeet for local teachers oncce a term.’Keen Beans’ present a three minute presentation and the ‘Enthusiastic Lurkers’ enjoy the presentations. Everybody has a great time and takes back loads of ideas to use in the classroom. Claire Dean from Stirling and Sharon Cox from Clarendon run these Tea...
The Nokia Mobile Maths competition 3rd-9th November starts today the 3rd November, and there are great prizes up for grabs! If your Grade 10 –12 Maths students haven’t yet registered at https://momaths.nokia.com let them do so today. This could be a great way to revise for the upcoming exams.
If your students log in to your Nokia Mobile Maths account at https://momaths.nokia.com and open the section called NEWS they will see mention of the Maths challenge. It is only for one week, fr...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
SchoolNet SA is pleased to announce our appointment as Google’s Education Partner in South Africa. We will be offering free GEG training workshops around the country as well as overseeing the formation of Google Education Groups (GEGs) in the different provinces. It is hoped to grow South Africa’s pool of voluntary GEG leaders (practising teachers who are ICT champions) from the workshop attendees. These GEG groups and the GEG training are part of Google’s worldwide s...
