Four videos of the 2013 Cape Town Google Summit now available
Last year in October Cape Town experienced the first ever Google Summit in Africa hosted by SchoolNet and Parklands College at Parklands College. It was presented by the amazing EdTech team from the USA and it was an exceptionally inspiring event for teachers in the classroom as well as anyone involved in education.
Parklands videotaped some of the sessions and SchoolNet has placed four of them on the SchoolNet YouTube channel.
1) Kern Kelley – Technology is Trust
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We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar this Thursday afternoon (tomorrow) 13 February at 3.30pm. We invite you to join us if you can.
Title: Great web-based sites (or free applications) for publishing your students’ writing online
Summary of the webinar
Nowadays instead of keeping your students’ writing confined to an exercise book in the classroom let your students use free web-based tools to make the most beautiful online creations. These ...
Brescia House School in Bryanston has been selected by Microsoft as one of 80 outstanding mentor schools from around the world and will be represented at the Partners in Learning Global Forum in Barcelona next month. This story “Mentor schools help others optimize technology’ appeared in the February 11th Star newspaper. In the photo, Lyneth Crighton, head of innovations and staff development at Brescia House can be seen tutoring students in the garden.
This article can be downloaded fr...
It is a great idea to use a Learning Platform in your classroom. such as Edmodo or Obami. In this post we will look at Edmodo which has an Android App and is currently used by 30 million users around the world. Edmodo is said to currently be the world’s largest K-12 social learning network. It is described as ‘learning made social’ www.edmodo.com
What is Edmodo
I have always described Edmodo as (and seen Edmodo described as) a Learning Management System (LMS) but a recent letter on the Edmo...
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It is important to start teaching about Internet safety, digital citizenship, and digital footprints when students are quite young, so I started with a Grade 2 and a Grade 3 class last week.
1. Familiarize yourself with Digital Citizenship
There are plenty of excellent resources available on the Internet. Read through them and make notes for yourself.
a) A must-have list of resources on digital citizenship for teachers
b) 13 digital citizenship terms teachers need to ...
On Thursday afternoon 6 February at 3.30pm we held our first SchoolNet webinar for 2014. This was a two part webinar presented by Fiona Beal of SchoolNet and the recordings have been separated as follows:
1) Poetry sites you’ll love…
2) Create shapely word clouds with your class using Tagxedo
Webinar Part 1: Poetry sites you’ll love
Title: Poetry sites you’ll love…
A sub-title for this webinar could be ‘Encouraging poetry writing using free online interactives and websites ‘
Su...
Unfortunately my Android tablet isn’t compatible with Class Dojo. Pity because this is a fantastic application for an elementary school teacher to use on his/her tablet. However I can still use the website version on my Android tablet.
What is Class Dojo?
Class Dojo is a free online tool which allows the class teacher to manage and record behaviour and provide instant feedback to the class. It encourages learners to take responsibility for their own behaviour, and puts the focus on positive inste...
One thing about owning a tablet is that the hard-drive is very small and not able to hold much. Also, if you have a class that is using Android tablets, you will need to be able to access their work. Saving to online storage or to the ‘cloud’ as it is called is the best option. Cloud storage was once a confusing technology but it is slowly becoming the norm. Basically, cloud storage is a term used to describe services that back up your files to a remote server owned by the cloud storage provide...
We are pleased to announce that we will be starting our 2014 SchoolNet webinar series this Thursday afternoon 6 February at 3.30pm. This week we have a webinar consisting of two parts that might interest Primary School teachers. Here are the details:
Webinar part 1
Title: Get your class creating shapely word clouds using Tagxedo
Summary of the webinar
I love using word clouds in the classroom, especially using Tagxedo (which is free). Tagxedo turns words from wherever – e.g. poetry, famous speech...
When you have a tablet such as an Android or an iPad, you can always access blogging platforms via the browser, but an app specially designed for the device works much better when it comes to speed, offline use, layout, functionality and focus. There’s so much that students can do with a blog that it is really well-worth downloading the preferred app on to your device.
WordPress on Android
WordPress for Android puts the power of publishing in your hands, making it easy to create and consum...
