Google #16: Convert your blog to an editable file on your computer!
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently I have read a couple of intriguing blog posts about the importance of backing up your blog, and even using sites such as BlogBooker to make a PDF or printed book of your blog – and I thought that today would be the day to try some of these ideas.
What is BlogBooker?
BogBooker advertises itself like this: “BlogBooker: From your Blog to a Book.”
http://www.blogbooker.com/
The website says that “BlogBooker produces a high-quality PDF Blog Book fro...Read more
PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival Competition
New York, NY (January 23, 2013)– The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations ( UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) again invite the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on PLURAL+ themes: migration, diversity and social inclusion.
What is PLURAL+?
Recognizing youth as powerful agents of social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions, PLURAL+ in...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
One of the most popular posts to date on this blog has been one outlining a number of sites that can be used for starting stories ‘10 Story Starter sites to get your students writing’. I thought it was time to add to the list. The Internet is full of the most amazing tools to encourage our students to write. To this end I created a Scoop.it containing the posts I find as I do research http://www.scoop.it/t/reading-and-writing-in-primary-school
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Are you interested in learning the inns and outs of Adobe Essentials and Adobe Premier, and then teaching a group of your learners the same programmes? You would then use these programmes to create a short movie with a message for youth. Keen to know more?
SchoolNet is facilitating an Adobe Youth Voices online course which is an international course run by Adobe. The dates are February 18, 2013 – April 15, 2013. We have six places available for South African teachers t...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Today I was reading an article called ‘3 tools to turn your tweets into a newspaper’. http://goo.gl/aWHMd. I have already experimented with one of the tools mentioned, Paper.li, and created one called ‘Fiona’s Technology Times’ which is a collection of tweets from people who I follow in the form of a weekly newspaper. In the process of doing that I created a Paper.li blogpost for the Schoolnet blog ‘Curating with Paper.li’. Today I thought I would create a different ...
30 Days of Google series #15
Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to do your daily/weekly/year planning and lessons than either writing them out by hand (worst scenario) or typing them out and keeping them on your own computer? One of the best applications to use for planning and preparing is Google Docs because you can then access your files from any computer as well as share them with anyone else who has access to the Internet. Amazing!
Distinction between Google Docs and Google Drive
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SchoolNet is a volunteer supporter and promoter of iEARN and we would like to give this project from iEARN some prominence since it will greatly benefit our SchoolNet members. It is a call for participation in learning circles – a project we have always supported. The original post can be found here.
Global Collaboration Made Easy!
Looking for a way to connect your students with global peers? Sign up by January 22nd for the January 30 – May 25 session of iEARN Learning C...
What is Symbaloo?
Symbaloo is a great free tool you can use to create multiple tables or tiles to organise web links of one sort or another. It thus becomes a visual curation tool or a visual bookmarking tool. Symbaloo can be found at http://www.symbalooedu.com/ if you are a teacher. by joining here you can enrol your students as well.
Symbaloo creates ‘webmixes’ which are basically a collection of your bookmarks. It also has already created tiles of popular websites so that if you want to use th...
