Adobe Youth Voices in South Africa–teachers, you have to join this amazing project!
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet
What is the Adobe Youth Voices project?
Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of intermediate and high school age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools and to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Edu...Read more
Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/) is one of my favourite free programmes. It is a way of easily presenting information online. It could be really useful if you have a classroom blog or wiki because you could upload all sorts of different information for your class to access at home. It is also a way for your students to present their information online if they are collaborating with another class.
Basically, with Slideshare you can upload and share (publicly or privately) PowerP...
What is a Prezi?
Prezi is another presentation tool that is fascinating to use.You will find Prezi at http://prezi.com. It is a zooming digital presentation editor that holds the attention of students possibly more than would a PowerPoint. (Last week I attended a primary school ‘Technology Show’ at Micklefield Primary – totally amazing! One grade demonstrated the use of Prezi and their comment was that they think ALL the teachers should use Prezi!) With Prezi you can type text, embed pict...
What is MentorMob?
It’s that word ‘curating’ that is popping up again! I found MentorMob, a curating tool, by chance when surfing the Net and I really like this free tool. This is a great tool which allows one to put together articles, videos and blogs related to a subject of interest in a play list. The end produce has a gorgeous look in my opinion
Examples of MentorMobs
To show you what I mean
1) Take a look at this one on Blended Learning by Anna Conway http://bit.ly/NNlNDs
It i...
Mybrainshark is a place where you can easily create videos from your PowerPoint slides…but not only from PowerPoint slides! You can also add your voice to documents, a series of photos, and even voice over to a video or else the video with its own sounds. It is a fantastic free programme! So open Mybrainshark on http://www.brainshark.com
My first attempt: How to make a Mybrainshark
My first attempt at a Mybrainshark was just to upload a PowerPoint on how to make a Mybrainshark and add voice to ...
Please consider joining Schoolnet’s webinar programme this week! These webinars are short 30 minute demonstrations and you can leave any time!
a) Fiona Beal will do the first one on Tuesday which is on creating a Mybrainshark. This is such an exciting tool for adding voice to a PowerPoint, document or video online.
b) In the second webinar on Thursday we are pleased to announce that Lisa Gair from The Rock Academy will tell us how she uses a lovely vocabulary tool called Flashcard Stash a...
What are Edmodo and Obami?
Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into a community. You would use either one or the other. They provide teachers and students with a secure place to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade classwork, connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications.
Classroom uses of Edmodu and Ob...
What is the Adobe Youth Voices project?
Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle- and high-school-age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools and to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Educators from participating sites join a global network...
What is a Livebinder?
There is a lovely, free online site you may have heard of called LiveBinders (http://www.livebinders.com/). It is a free online service for teachers that lets them gather, organize and share information. It is like an online 3-ring binder that you can put anything (that is online) into – webpages, PDF, documents, images, or videos. Everything is organized by tab and you can even have subtabs within those tabs. I really wanted to create a Livebinder myself this week, b...
Screencasting is an amazing programme to use if you want to quickly show someone how to do something on the computer. It easily creates a video of what you are doing and saying. These are called screencasts. If you want to create good screencasts without the hassle of downloading and installing any application on your computer then Screencast-O-Matic is the best available tool for the purpose.
Other screencasting applications
I started off using Jing, until I discovered ScreenR. I have written a blo...
