30 Days of Web Tools #29: Index…using Symbaloo
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently on this blog we posted a series called ‘30 days of webtools‘ with a daily post featuring a different webtool that can be used successfully in the classroom. I thought that an Index post would be fitting for this series for easier navigation to a desired tool; and instead of the usual type of index post I decided to use SymbalooEDU. This is a very useful curation or bookmarking tool.
So, if you would like to access the different webtools used in ...Read more
Submitted by Fiona Beal with permission from Karen Stadler
We, at Schoolnet, are very proud of two of our teachers from South Africa who have been highlighted as ‘Global Lead Teachers’ in the Global Classroom Project. Karen Stadler is the ICT Integration Co-ordinator for Elkanah House’s Senior Primary campus in Cape Town. She keeps a blog called All Things ICT. Brenda Hallowes is from Cotswold Preparatory School in Port Elizabeth and we featured one of her posts on our SchoolNet blog yesterda...
Submitted by Fiona Beal with permission from Brenda Hallowes…
This is a guest post from a Schoolnetter, Brenda Hallowes, who teaches ICT at Cotswold Preparatory School in Port Eizabeth. Brenda has a blog ‘Cotswold Lab Notes’ and when I read this post in November I asked her if I could use it as a guest post since it highlights the practice of ‘Mystery Skype’ in action. Mystery Skype can also be conducted using a Google hangout!
Brenda’s blog ‘Cotswold Lab N...
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This is a reflection by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet on the initial workshop of the African Storybook project held in Johannesburg last month.
If you had been walking past the Boardroom in the offices of Saide (South African Distance Education) in Johannesburg on Saturday 10 November 2012 you would have heard loud hoots of laughter. If you had tiptoed to the door and peeped inside to see what was happening you might have seen a group of adults sitting totally engrossed in a very...
submitted by janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet
SchoolNet SA was delighted to be awarded the WCED tender to supply every government school in the Western Cape with one tablet computer and to conduct training for WCED department officials. The drawback however was that the deliveries had to be concluded within one week! Finding 1 527 schools on a map was going to be difficult enough let alone tracking down the principals in order for them to sign to verify delivery.
Donald Grant handing over a ta...
I have been quite fascinated by the concept of a Google Hangout plus the concept of Google+ Hangouts On Air, which lets you broadcast to an unlimited audience. I have experienced both and this is a real hit from Google. (I can’t say that I fully understand it all perfectly) yet I must admit! In this post I want to talk more about the live Hangout on Air and show how to create one.
What exactly is a Google Hangout on Air?
A normal Hangout can only have ten viewers but Hangouts On Air all...
Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet
Tudor Clee from New Zealand returned to South Africa this week – bearing tablets!
SchoolNetters will remember in July we reported about the development of a digital world atlas application for tablets that would allow children from around the world to teach each o...
What is a Google hangout?
Google+ is Google’s new social networking tool. I have only just discovered its amazing potential since attending the Google Teacher Academy in New York in October. Google has put a lot of funding into developing Google+ and they are committed to making it work well for education, so it will just get better and better I am sure. Once you have created a circle of friends in Google+ you can choose to hang out with them on Google+. This allows you to video chat, IM chat,...
Google circles are a feature of Google+ and they can be very useful for keeping in contact with a group of people. For example I have a circle called Google PD clan.
How I send a message to the Google PD clan
Whenever I want to send something to that group this is what I would do:
1. In my Google+ stream I would write a message.
2. Decide which circle or person I am going to send it to, select them and press ‘Share’ (in this case to a circle called Google PD clan).
How would I share...
