SchoolNet webinars this week
These are our SchoolNet webinars for this week – both short and sweet! Do join us if you can.
(1) Please join us in an Adobe Connect Meeting.
Meeting Name: Get to know Google +
Summary: This webinar introduces you to Google+ and how to use it.
Presenter: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When: Tuesday 20 November 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM (15 mins)
Time Zone: (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
URL: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/googleplus/
(2) Please join us in an ...Read more
submitted by Fiona Beal
For a while now I have been wanting to learn how to use Learnist for curating. I have tried (and LOVE using) Pinterest and Scoopit and today it was Learnist’s turn. Learnist makes it very easy to share what you know by curating the web. You can use videos, blogs, books, docs, images or anything on the web to explain . In my first attempt I used blogposts and a Google Docs presentation. Perhaps in my next Learnist I’ll get more adventurous!
A Learnis...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Linda Yollis
Most days I think that Google must be the most exciting company on the planet right now. Perhaps this is because I was exposed to their extreme creativity at the recent Google Teacher Academy I attended in New York! Every day something new pops up with Google. For example, I have just read and tweeted about another amazing thing that is happening in the Googlesphere from the Google blog! “If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now’s y...
Google Docs is an amazing way to create a classroom newspaper. Last night we scheduled a SchoolNet webinar featuring Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth, where she outlined how she uses Google Docs to create classroom newspapers with Foundation Phase students.
First she starts off with a template like this one shown below. This template can be accessed here.
Here is another template sample that can be accessed here.
The class is then assigned different parts of the template to write on at ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
My
experience of Google Chrome is that it is one of the fastest internet browsers
available today. It also offers some great features, including synchronization
across computers, multiple browsers, autofill, application and extensions for
every browsing situation. The webinar last night mentioned some of these
features. Thank you very much to all who attended the SchoolNet webinar
last night entitled ‘The AMAZING Google Chrome’. I hope you were
inspired to try mo...
A classroom newspaper using Google Docs
Meeting Name:
Create a classroom newspaper using Google Docs
Presenter: Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth in South Africa
Summary: This is a webinar from Brenda Hallowes
showing how she uses Google Docs to create a lovely classroom newspaper with
her Foundation Phase students.
Invited By: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When:
11/15/2012 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Time Zone:
(GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
To join the meeting:&nb...
This is just an update from Lucy Gray on the amazing, online global conference that is currently taking place.
“My co-chair, Steve Hargadon, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to new members of our online global education community. Nearly 1000 people have joined in the last day, and we’re astounded by the response to our online and free conference. I predicted that we’d reach 15,000 members by the end of this year; I think we’re going to be over that number by the end of...
There are two webinars this week:
1) The Amazing Google Chrome
Meeting Name: The AMAZING Google Chrome
Summary: This webinar sets out to show what one can do with Google Chrome! It is an extraordinary browser with all sorts of tips and tricks you might not know about to make browsing a breeze!
When: Tuesday 11/13/2012 at 6:00 PM
Duration: 15 minutes
Presenter: Fiona Beal
To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/chrome/
2) A classroom newspaper in Google Docs for ...
submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently, in October, I had the amazing experience of being selected to attend the Google Teacher Academy in New York – an experience, I think, every teacher should aim for! I have written a couple of blogposts about this experience should you wish to take a quick peek!
1) A South African Educator heads off for the Google Teacher Academy in New York
2) Reflecting on the Google Teacher Academy experience
3) Gleanings from the Google Teacher Acad...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently I was opening my Blogger blog when I was directed to a message from Google saying that people in two parts of the world (Austria and Sweden) were trying to access the blog. Google gave the IP address of the devices concerned They had refused permission to these unknown people but wanted to know if I wanted to give them access – good old Google! They advised me to change my password in case it was someone trying to compromise my account…which of course I did. ...
