Nokia Mobile Maths – an excellent service that is free! Would you like to join a MoMaths teachers’ group?
Recently, on our Nokia post entitled ‘The free Nokia Mobile Maths service (Gr 10-12) is available for smartphone but also works on a PC’ we received a very encouraging comment naming Nokia Mobile Maths as an excellent service…
“Thank you so much for this blog – as a Maths consultant involved in the authoring and editing of this material, I am very happy to see this excellent service advertised more widely. I wish to briefly highlight 2 additional features that I believe are worth being awar...Read more
This is the third post in a short series of Office 365 posts which have been written by Microsoft South Africa, taking you through getting acquainted with Office 365. They are available in the Microsoft Provisioning Guide. See
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Your users are your educational establishment community. This normally means teachers, lecturers and students as well as administration staff, but who you add is entirely up to you and your educational establishment.
You might w...
Signing up for Office 365
Go to the Office 365 portal to set up your account. The portal can be found at http://aka.ms/o365EduZa – click on Try now and you will see a screen that looks like this:
Be careful when selecting your username as it cannot be changed once entered. When you have completed this form (ensuring you have selected the correct location country for your establishment) click on next.
You will now be able to complete the verification process. This will register your educ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Google Earth is one of the most amazing applications that has ever been created, in my opinion. is a free, downloadable program that can be used on any operating system with huge potential for education at all levels. Users can explore all parts of our planet, with easy-to-navigate satellite views of the entire Earth overlayed with pictures and facts. Students love finding their own homes in satellite and street view in Google Earth.
Get started with Google Earth
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Getting started
Before setting up your Office 365 site (known as a tenancy) you should run a check on your educational establishment computers and mobile devices to make sure they have an up to date operating system and browser. You can see a complete list of the technical stuff here.
You might also need to reset your firewall to allow Office 365 to work. Details of how to do this can also be found in the technical stuff section.
You should have the details of your domain name and access to your...
The Global Classroom Project is a grassroots global education community dedicated to enabling teachers and students explore new ways to connect, learn, share, and collaborateglobally. More information at http://theglobalclassroomproject.wordpress.com/.
Here are some of their weekend events:
Saturday and Sunday, September 6th + 7th 12pm – 9pm
CUE Learning Revolution Online Summit Featuring Google for Education, CUE and The Learning Revolution Project, the producers of the Google Teacher ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Nowadays a student’s story writing no longer needs to remain hidden in their classwork books at school. They can easily share their hard work online, even in the form of videos. here are three ways to take a story that has been written and illustrated in a presentation format such as Powerpoint and convert it to a video fomat online
1. How to convert a PowerPoint presentation to a video file
I was delighted when I came across this very clear explanation of how to convert a Po...
The Nokia Mobile Maths service started in 2008 with 300 learners and within a couple of years had grown to 50,000 learners. Nokia then opened the service to informal learning so that students could have 24/7 access to its materials. This programme has had major impact in interactive Maths learning. 53% of students are active users. The competence level of the users rose by 14%. 82% of the usage happens after school hours.
What are some of the features that make this service so useful to Grade 10-...
The African Storybook Project (ASP) is a project that is currently creating and encouraging the use of a multilingual, digital library of stories for the first few years of reading. The website was launched recently at a multilingual symposium in Pretoria and can be located at http://africanstorybook.org/
Recently a free, five-week, online course entitled ‘Digital Storytelling for the African Storybook Project 2014’ was on offer for teachers in Africa from SchoolNetSA and the African Storybook Proj...
