SchoolNet webinar recording from Thursday 28 November 3:30pm ‘Edflipping videos into your classroom’ (Linda Foulkes)
On Thursday afternoon (28 November 2013) at 3.30pm we held our final SchoolNet webinar for 2013 entitled ‘Edflipping videos into your lessons’ presented by Linda Foulkes of Elkanah High School in Cape Town.
Presentation
Linda summarised her presentation like this:
“I will demonstrate two very useful and exciting tools in order to create a lesson using a video. Teachers will love these tools. Both resources allow one to track student progress. The first tool is EdTed which allows one to f...Read more
ReadWriteThink.org has a great selection of poetry lessons many of which contain Interactives for the students to write online poems and print them. Whenever an interactive is selected a number of lesson plans are shown with it. These are contributed by teachers around the world. I searched for ‘poetry interactives’ in the finder and was given 124 results. I have selected 10 for this post.
1. Theme Poems
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write ...
What is ReadWriteThink.org?
I have always known about the amazing ReadWriteThink website (http://www.readwritethink.org/) and its wonderful templates but when I attended ISTE 2013 I suddenly saw what a great potential this programme has in the classroom. Lisa Storm Fink gave a wonderful session entitled ‘A day with ReadWriteThink.org.’ ReadWriteThink describes its mission like this: “to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices ...
This idea comes from a lovely shared resource from the Simple K12 Learning Community which I have elaborated on.
The aim of the lesson
The aim of the lesson is for the students to recall their knowledge on a Unit they might have learned about in class or a project task they have been given. They would create a PowerPoint 3D museum with different rooms, with animations, showing what they have learned and they would present this to the rest of the class.
Preparation
Following the suggest...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar on Thursday afternoon 28th November at 3.30pm. This week is our last webinar for the year. Here are the details:
Title: Edflipping videos into your lessons
Summary of the webinar
Linda says: “I will demonstrate two very useful and exciting tools in order to create a lesson using a video. Teachers will love these tools. Both resources allow one to track student progress. The first tool is EdTed which allows one to flip the clas...
This is a lovely lesson idea that I heard at a TeachMeet. It was presented by Megan Skelly from Hudson Primary School in East London. I tried it out with a Grade 3 class and the students absolutely loved it. This is an example of one of the slides that a student created.
The aim of the lesson
The aim of the lesson is for the students to recall their knowledge learning about the four seasons. They would create a PowerPoint with animations showing the characteristics of the seasons.
Prepar...
On Thursday afternoon (21 November 2013) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘An introduction to e-books’ presented by Malcolm Seegers a digital publisher for a well-known South African publishing group. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Summary of the webinar
Malcom says:
“More and more schools are going digital with many of them putting the technology in the hands of the learners. This webinar will discuss the basics of ebooks –how to choose the correct format, what ...
After our recent Google Summit in Cape Town many teachers were excited about the possibility of using Google Apps in the classroom. It seems so exciting that there is a quick and easy way to embrace Google in your classroom or school and make daily use of Google Search, Google Drive, Google Forms, get your students a Gmail address that is moderated by the teacher for school use, and all the other free Google products that work so well in education. In fact here is a quick summary of ten things one...
As I was browsing Twitter today I came across a retweet of a post by @PrimaryIdeas. I looked them up on Twitter and my search led me to another site called 3X3 links where they advertise links to their various resources http://www.3x3links.com/pi.
What is 3X3 links?
3X3Links (http://www.3x3links.com/index.html). is a useful webtool that allows you to create links, namely 9, to resources. This could be useful as an Internet start page. When you open 3X3Links it describes itself as an I...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar this week on Thursday afternoon 14th November at 3.30pm on ebooks. I heard Malcolm Seegers giving this interesting presentation at the SchoolNet conference earlier this year and have asked him to present his talk as a webinar. Here are the details:
Name: Introduction to eBooks
Summary: More and more schools are going digital with many of them putting the technology in the hands of the learners. This webinar will discuss the basics of ...
