Google #17: Webinar recording ‘Let’s explore Google Chrome and its extensions’
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Webinar recording: Let’s explore Google Chrome and its extensions (05/03/2013)
Google Chrome is definitely a fascinating and very user-friendly browser. Some of the things I love about using it are:
You can easily create many different profiles for Chrome so that each email address you have uses its own profile.
The URL bar is called an Omnibox because you can search from it just as if you were operating in Google Search.
One can paste all sorts of bookmarklets in the bookmarks bar. i.e. Pin it for Pinterest, ‘Scoop.it’ for Scoop.it etc.
There are so many wonde...Read more
SchoolNet webinar at 6pm tonight,Tues 4th March, ‘Explore the Chrome browser and its amazing extensions’
Join us!
http://www.w3schools.com lists Google Chrome as the current most used browser world-wide. Want to know more about the Chrome browser? We invite you to join a 15minute SchoolNet webinar this evening from 6:00 – 6:15pm
Come and discover how easy it is to use the Chrome browser to have a very different browsing experience. You can create multiple browsers for different email address, and best is that you can add free applications and extensions to those browsers which is so useful for t...Read more
Our SchoolNet ‘ICT in the Classroom’ three-day conference is happening in July. Register now!
If you are excited about using technology to enhance teaching and learning – register for this conference or offer to share your knowledge as a speaker. This conference is aimed at teachers, school leaders and ICT coordinators who want to learn more about using technology in engaging ways in and beyond the classroom.
When:
Tuesday 2 July – Thursday 4 July 2013
Where:
University of the Free State – Bloemfontein, South Africa
Conference Themes:
Curriculum delivery throu...Read more
Brescia House is holding a ‘How I do IT in my classroom’ day on 16 March
Brescia House in Johannesburg is holding a ‘How do I do IT in my classroom’ day on Saturday 16th March 2013 from 8-1pm. The programme shown below looks awesome. If you would like to download the programme for easier viewing here is the link: How do I do IT in my classroom?
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Calling SA teachers – join SchoolNet at the Intel Teach One Day Conference 13 April in Pietermaritzburg
SchoolNet proudly presents a One Day Intel Teach Conference on Saturday April 13th at Maritzburg College, Pietermaritzburg. If you would like to download and print this brochure, please click on the following attachment link.
Intel Teach One Day Conference in Pietermaritzburg 13 April 2013
Note: You might be asking if this is the main SchoolNet Conference this year? No, we will be informing you about our 3-day conference in the first week of July in Bloemfontein in due course as indicated a...Read more
Unicef’s FREE World Education Games are about to start 5-7 March…hurry…hurry!
Something very exciting is about to take place in education nxt week – Unicef’s World Education Games, all free! Want to know more? Let’s go over to the official website to investigate further. http://www.worldeducationgames.com/WEG2013#2. If you look around on the website you’ll see there are lovely resources to download. The website also tells us about the programme and the games, and asks us to register.
Programme
World Maths Day: 5th March
World Literacy Day: 6th March
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...UtellStory looks like an amazing digital storytelling application
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I am always on the lookout for interesting ways to get our students reading,
writing, or creating in one way or another. Today I came across UtellStory and
I must say I really want to try out this application. I have embedded their example of what a Utellstory can look like from the opening page of their website (http://www.utellstory.com) below.
How to create a story
UtellStory has a ‘how to’ video on You Tube which explains how to go about creati...Read more
More inspiration: ‘Here’s to the crazy ones–think different’
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