Nokia Mobile Maths competition 3rd-9th November! Lumia phones and free data up for grabs!
This is a message for your Nokia Mobile Maths students – to remind them of the upcoming competition next month. Here are the details:
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 a great competition that starts on 3rd November 2014. Microsoft and MTN bring them this competition in the form of a Maths challenge. It is only for one week, from the 3rd – 9th November. Below you will see this first...Read more
This looks AMAZING especially if you are interested in finding out more about how to use Google in your classroom.
“Dear Administrators, IT Leaders, Academic Heads of Schools, Universities, FET and TVET Colleges
You are invited to attend one of our Innovation Tours in either East London or Cape Town in October 2014! It is a one-day event where we will share ideas about Google for Education from both the technical and academic points of view. Our GEG Team would also be available to discuss pro...
Will your Grade 10 – 12 Maths students be using the free Nokia Mobile Maths programme to revise their Maths during these October school holidays? From home? https://momaths.nokia.com/za
If not this service is really worth looking into. The Nokia mobile mathematics service provides learners and teachers access to interactive mathematics learning materials using a mobile delivery platform combined with a social media application for peer-to-peer support. They can work individually or in groups.
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
These are a few of the posts about using Google products for education that caught my attention at the beginning of last week. A whole lot of interesting posts appeared after that – but those will have to wait until later in the week!
1. New Google Docs feature: Editing student documents just got easier!
http://goo.gl/vr61rs
Now, any user with “can comment” access to a document can make suggested edits to the document. These suggestions are marked by a green brac...
Have you entered the Doodle4Google South Africa competition with its great prizes on offer? The closing date is October 22nd. Drawing these doodles could be a great end-of-term activity for your class. Read the following letter from Google South Africa
“Dear Teacher
Would you like your student’s artwork to be viewed by millions of South Africans on the homepage of www.google.co.za? Would you like your school to benefit from a R100 000...
The great thing about Nokia mobile maths is that this platform, which is for Grades 10 – 12 Maths students in South Africa, is available on any Internet-connected mobile phone, tablet or PC, and is “zero rated” for use on the MTN and Cell C networks. the sole aim is to help South African high school pupils to better master the subject of mathematics.
Access to the Nokia Mobile Mathematics (MoMaths) portal has been “zero rated” on MTN and Cell C, which means that learners don’t pay for...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Digital Storytelling is all the rage currently. One of the online tools that one can use to create a story is WeVideo. WeVideo has several pricing plans one of which is a free plan.
I am particularly interested in this application as it is one of the Apps that integrates with Google Drive. Richard Byrne has written about this feature in a post called ‘Create Videos Online with WeVideo in Google Drive’.
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently I saw a Google+ post from Google for Education that said ‘Make a Google site in minutes’. This immediately caught my attention as I imagined it would take a mush longer time than that. The post in question said that all one needs to do is follow the six steps listed below. I tried it and, quite honestly, it IS as simple as that!
What is a Google site?
A Google site can be seen as an interactive website that is quick and easy to create without any knowledge o...
Office 365 requires the following software:
– The current or immediately prior version of Internet Explorer, or the latest release of Chrome, Firefox or Safari.
– Any version of Microsoft Office in mainstream support.
Google Chrome
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