Why not try using Tall Tweets for tweets longer than 140 characters?
Let’s be honest – there are many times one wishes one had more characters than the allocated 140 to compose a specific tweet. Well, have you heard of Tall Tweets? This is a phenomenal site! Tall Tweets (http://talltweets.com/) is a Twitter app that will help you write tweets that are longer than 140 characters. It can also also publisher longer tweets as images. This exciting app was developed by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspirations
How does it work?
There are two things that Tall Tweets allo...Read more
The South Africa and Lesotho Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum recognises innovative teachers who are using ICT in engaging ways to enhance teaching and learning. SchoolNet works closely with Microsoft in organising this event which was formerly known as the Innovative Teacher competition.
This competition is aimed at teachers who are using technology to enhance learning activities or as part of project based activities. The Forum rewards creative and dynamic teachers with great prizes and pr...
There are just so many posts about how to use Google in the classroom that it is quite mind-blowing. Today I thought I would list a few of them that I have found helpful. Four excerpts come from come from one of my favourite blogs, the TeachThought blog. .
1) 5 Simple Ways To Use Google Docs In The Classroom (from the TeachThought blog)
from http://www.teachthought.com/technology/5-simple-ways-to-use-google-docs-in-the-classroom/
This is a great post that you must read. It outlines:
how to i...
Google hangouts are a free video chat service from Google, connected to Google +, that enables both one-on-one chats and group chats with up to ten people at a time. There are enormous benefits to this for education. This is the webinar recording entitled ‘So, how does a Google hangout work?
Summary of the webinar
Google hangouts are part of Google plus. This video chat feature allows you to invite nine others (total of 10) to video chat, IM chat, watch YouTube videos together, share documents...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
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If you are a South African teacher reading this we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a free online writing course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA as part of the amazing African Storybook project and website that is being developed for Africa. Our 30 days of writing posts will lead up to giving more information about this. WATCH THIS SPACE!
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
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If you are a South African teacher reading this we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a free online writing course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA as part of the amazing African Storybook project and website that is being developed for Africa. Our 30 days of writing posts will lead up to giving more information about this. WATCH THIS SPACE!
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Nowadays, in the era of social networking, it is vital for a teacher to get on to Twitter in order to find out what is happening in education. I have learned SO much from Twitter and am connected to fantastic educators all over the world because of using it.
How ten minutes with Twitter can get your creativity soaring
For example I was looking through my Twitter stream and I saw a tweet from Julian Wood, a teacher in England whom I follow. It said:
Since I am attending a TeachMeet on...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer of Schoolnet
The Microsoft Partners in Learning Network has been re-launched and is well worth visiting to access the Microsoft Learning Suite tools and lesson plans; to get support from tutorials and online professional development and to connect with other teachers to share resources and to discuss hot topics. The Partners in Learning Network is also the place where teachers who are entering the 2013 South Africa and Lesotho Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum will nee...
Submitted by Fiona Beal. This is the last in my series of 30 Days of Web Tools series – but of course I continue adding many web tool posts in the days to come
I came across the coolest website today called Phrase.it (http://phrase.it.) It is a very easy to use tool where you simply upload your photo (or select it from Facebook), add your bubble and text and then save it. Let’s go through it.
1. Open Phrase.it
2. Add your photo
You can import from Facebook, upload one o...
