SchoolNet Webinar on Thurs 13 March 3:30pm ‘Using infographics in the classroom – create an infographic using Easel.ly’
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar on Thursday afternoon 13 March at 3.30pm. We would love you to join us. Here are the details.
Title: Using infographics in the classroom – create an infographic using Easel.ly
Summary: This webinar introduces the use of infographics in a classroom. Wikipedia defines infographics as ‘graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly’. Infographics ...Read more
On Thursday afternoon, 6 March 2014) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘10+ steps to getting started with a digital classroom’ presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet.
The webinar description
There’s no doubt that technology can transform teaching and learning in a classroom. But for many of us digital devices for everyone is just a distant dream. However one can still start on the digital route with or without devices for everyone. This webinar encourages you to consider incorpo...
One of my favourite applications on my laptop is ‘Pocket’. With Pocket you can save articles, videos or pretty much anything into your ‘Pocket’ for reading later whether offline or online. You can save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite (it is integrated with 500+ apps). So, when I saw the app is available as an Android (and an iOS) app I thought this deserved a mention (and a download of course!)
Pocket has won a couple of awards – Time’s ...
Do you ever find that you are doing research and have masses of tabs open, to the point that you have to click through each one to discover which one was which; OR worst case scenario, your computer freezes? I often experience this, so when I read about a free Chrome extension called ‘One Tab’ (http://www.one-tab.com/) I immediately wanted to try it out.
What is One-Tab?
One-Tab is a Crome extension that converts all of your open tabs into one list showcased in Chrome as one tab. When you ...
This is a guest post from Anthony Peters (@apeters522) who is an innovative English teacher from Parklands College in Cape Town. SchoolNet noticed his tweets about their English Department’s proposed Shakespeare QR code Scavenger Hunt Assessment activity with Grade 9 and asked if he would be willing to share this with us as a guest post after the event. We’re thrilled at the result. Thank you Anthony!
The QR Scavenger Hunt Assessment idea
The awesome English Department at Parkland...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar on Thursday afternoon 6 March at 3.30pm. We would love you to join us. Here are the details.
Meeting Name: 10+ steps to getting started with a digital classroom
Summary: There’s no doubt that technology can transform teaching and learning in a classroom. But for many of us digital devices for everyone is just a distant dream. However one can still start on the digital route with or without devices for everyone. ...
Glossi.com is a great new publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share their own digital magazines across devices…free. It looked like a great application to use with a Middle School class and I decided to use it as the end point in a lesson about setting goals.
The aim of the lesson
The students work in groups and discuss goal-setting. They select relevant categories for goal setting. Individually they create their own specific goals for each category and display their top six goals...
On Thursday afternoon (27 February 2014) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Create an Internet Start page using Protopage’ presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet.
The webinar description
Protopage is an Internet start page that you can create and use for quick access to everything on the web that you visit the most. You can use it to:
• Keep bookmarks to frequently accessed web sites
• Organize your day with to-do lists and sticky notes
•...
The ENO Programme calls schools in the world to join ENO Treelympics, olympiads for tree planting. Their target is to plant 100 million trees by 2017. This commitment was made in the Rio+20 Summit in June 2012. To boost the participation of schools for 100 million trees by 2017, ENO will launch ENO Treelympics, starting 21 March and ending 24 October. 21 March is proclaimed the International Day of Forests by the United Nations.
Every school is invited to take part and plant trees . After...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar on Thursday afternoon 27 February at 3.30pm. Here are the details:
Meeting Name: Create an Internet start page using Protopage
Summary: Protopage is an Internet start page that you can create and use for quick access to everything on the web that you visit the most. You can use it to:
• Keep bookmarks to frequently accessed web sites
• Organize your day with to-do lists and sticky notes
• Create web pages, group pages, and i...
