Join a free Western Cape Innovation workshop on Sat 11th or Sat 18th May
Microsoft is currently holding free workshops
around the country to prepare teachers for the Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative
Educator Forum this year, and we are holding two in the Cape Town region over
the next two Saturdays. We would love
you to attend one of them (the presenter at both workshops will be Fiona Beal).
Dates
Saturday 11th May 2013 – Somerset House Preparatory School, Drama Street,
Somerset West from 8:30 – 4pm
Saturday 18th May 2013 – St Cyprians School,...Read more
The webinar summary
In this webinar, which supports our online course on Digital Storytelling, we will add our already created story to PowerPoint and find ways of illustrating it.
Webinar recording
The webinar attempts to pull together the different aspects for this week. Thank you to those who attended. I am adding the 6pm webinar:
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p16xkoenx12/
The presentation used for the webinar
I have put the presentation used in the webinar into Slideshare and here ...
What, where and when?
SchoolNet is pleased to announce another very exciting event that is not to be missed – the first of its kind on the African continent! On September 26th & 27th SchoolNet and Parklands College will be hosting a Google in Education Summit in Cape Town at Parklands College – This type of summit is very popular overseas so we are thrilled to be able to bring it to South Africa.
This not-to-be-missed two day event focuses on deploying, integrating, an...
SchoolNet is very excited about their upcoming Conference in Bloemfontein 2-4 July 2013. We invite you to register and also submit a proposal for a presentation on our SchoolNet website Conference page http://schoolnet.org.za/conference_2013/ Our early bird reduced registration fee ends at the end of April (tomorrow at midnight) so there’s a need to hurry and register! (Thank you very much to those who have already registered and submitted a presentation proposal).
We are delighted to int...
How much do you know about the ins and outs of posting something you have created on the Internet? Can anyone use it and share it? Can you use and share anything someone else has posted?
Introducing Copyright on the web
The African Storybook team felt that it was important to learn about free licensing on the web right at the beginning of this course. Licensing tells others what they can and can’t do with anything you put on the web. Basically, when you put something on the web it is copyrig...
The webinar summary
This webinar looks at the task of writing a story for the African Storybook Project. We will look at the different parts of story writing such as audience (characteristics of a Grade 3 child), finding inspiration, getting started, story structure, elements of a story, rubric for the African Storybook story contributions, and more…
Webinar recording
It will be useful to listen to the webinar to get the full gist of what is being said about licensing. Thank you to those who a...
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When practising online digital writing or digital storytelling it is useful to consider issues around online safety (or Digital Citizenship as it is called) especially when working with students.
Digital Writing: the art and practice of preparing documents primarily by computer and often for
online delivery.
Digital Storytelling: Digital
Storytelling refers to using digital tools for writing stories
A consideration of online safety is alway...
If you have access to 1:1 computers, or if your students have computers and Internet access at home, you could introduce them to daily writing exercise using a website called Plinky (http://www.plinky.com/)
How does Plinky work?
This is what the website says:
“Every day we provide a new prompt (like a question, or a challenge), and everyone gets a chance to answer. It’s simple to add photos, maps, playlists and more. You can easily share your Plinky answers on Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, ...
The webinar summary:
This webinar supports our current course on digital storytelling. What is the deal when we post information online? Can anybody use it? This webinar looks at free licensing supplied by Creative Commons and shows how to apply it. It will also show the free licensing we will use for our digital stories.
Webinar recording
It will be useful to listen to the webinar to get the full gist of what is being said about licensing. Thank you to those who attended. I am adding the 6pm webina...
Below is a brochure about the African Storybook project that has been put out by Saide (South African Institute of Distance Education) in Johannesburg . Saide is administering this great project which aims to facilitate availability, access to, and use of sufficient good stories for early reading practice for African children ages 2 to 9. It will do this by setting up an interactive website with stories for early reading and by encouraging educators and literacy development organisations working in e...
