WordPress #2: How to create a WordPress blog
In the last blog post we focused on on how to create a WordPress website. (See this link.) In this post the attention turns to creating a WordPress blog. Have you ever considered creating a classroom blog? Try it! You’ll find that a great and wonderful adventure awaits you! The great news is that WordPress is available as an app for both Android and iPad tablets and both apps are free.
WordPress for Android on Google Play
The app description says “WordPress for Android puts the power of ...Read more
Recently I thought it would be very useful to know how to create a simple WordPress website since this is a very popular website option currently. I was also keen to know what the difference is between creating a WordPress website and a WordPress blog. The best way to learn really is to plunge right in a create something so I did that as part of the learning process. I really enjoyed these short presentations from ne of the Internet sites I visited.
Making a WordPress website using a hos...
Are you a teacher that likes to use the media with your 13-19 year old students? If so, please think about joining our upcoming Adobe Youth Voices programme with a group of students – even if you need to form an after school club in order to do this. The great thing about it is that you’ll learn to create media with the free products and free online training from Adobe headquarters that we supply. All teachers and learners who meet all expectations will go into a prize draw to win great pri...
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. If you would like to read more about what happened at the Google Summit in Cape Town or look at the various presentations please do visit http://za.gafesummit.com/
Parklands videoed s...
In South Africa there are many online resources available to teachers free of
charge to assist them in their classroom activities. This post outlines a few of
these.
1. e-classroom (http://e-classroom.co.za).
One of the really popular sites in South Africa that has over 2,000,000 downloads per month is e-classroom. The sites consists of CAPS related worksheets for Grade R-6 which are mainly in English (and Afrikaans) but are currently being translated into the other South African languages.
On...
If your Android tablet is starting to fill up with unwanted apps, or if you have tried out an app and you don’t like it, it’s a good time to learn how to uninstall unused apps. Here’s how you do it. Note: If the app you want to uninstall is a system app that came with you Android tablet you won’t be able to uninstall it!
1. In the menu tap on Settings
2. Select ‘Apps’
Tap on Apps and then find the app you are wanting to uninstall
3. Tap on Uninstall...
Teachers are busy people and they have to remember a myriad of different things all day long. Everyone needs a good reminder system on their device, and for my Android I have downloaded a little app called ColorNote – it has saved my life quite a few times!
What is ColorNote?
ColorNote is a simple notepad app. It gives you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, memo, email, message, shopping lists and to do lists. It has checklists and text notes. All the not...
The first thing I looked around for when I obtained my Android tablet was a good, free office suite, preferably something that could be used offline as well as online. In my thinking it needed to be compatible with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft Excel. This post brings four productivity apps options – three that I that I have downloaded to try out and a fourth that I aspire to download in the near future.
Offline use (as well as online use)
Kingsoft Office
Kingsoft Offic...
What are Learning Circles?
Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. The website is very informative http://collaborate.iearn.org/space-17. Learning Circles provide a great structure for educators, both those new to global project-based learning and those with experience already, and also come with a comprehensive Teachers Guide ( more info here – http://www.iearn.org/circles ).
There are two s...
The use of word clouds in the classroom is a good way to really get through to visual learners. A word cloud is a visual image of collection of words made up of words from various sources such as words that you add yourself, a website, a poem or story etc. The great thing about word clouds is that not only do students love using them, but they are eas and valuable y to use in a variety of content areas and grade levels. My favourite word cloud generator in the past has been Wordle, but today I used Tagxe...
