This week’s exciting SchoolNet webinar programme
Please consider joining our SchoolNet webinar programme this week! These are short (30 minutes) webinars and you can leave
any time! I will do the first one which is on creating a Scoop.it. In the
second one I am please to announce that we have two guest speakers. Lisa Gair
from The Rock Academy will tell us how she uses Edmodo at school, and Siobhan
Lowe from Somerset House will tell us how she uses Obami at school.
Scoop.it webinar details
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With Mandela Day coming up the SchoolNet Johannesburg branch felt we wanted to make our 67 minute contribution to society along with the rest of South Africa. After searching for charities that are around and near the SchoolNet offices in Braamfontein we finally decided that we would spend our 67 minutes of Mandela Day 18 July at Sunshine Association, located in the leafy suburb of Craighall, Johannesburg. This was a decision we’ll never regret making...
As Siobhan says in her advert above, if you are looking to share great teaching ideas and want to learn more about how to integrate ICT tools into successful and collaborative lessons, (and you live in the Somerset West area), please join the Somerset House team with their upcoming ‘TeachMeet in the Helderberg Basin’ as they call it. I attended the last one and it was a fantastic evening. I actually wrote a report back on the event in this blog if you would like to read it: Report back on ...
Twitter is definitely a very important tool for educators in the 21st Century. I have learned SO MUCH from fellow educators via Twitter, and if anyone asks me for my no. 1 website I always say Twitter!
So, let’s say you want to create a hashtag for an event. This tag will group all the tweets about the same event together. This would then enable people to follow your event quite easily (and I’ll explain how afterwards).
1. You can just make up your own hashtag for your own event. e.g...
Here is today’s schedule for Connected Educator’s month. The full official and regularly-updated calendar can be found at http://connectededucators.org/cem. Please consider participating in some of these superb wenbinars. Please note that the times are Eastern Daylight Time, so you will need to refer to the Time Zone Converter to work out the times in your region. Don’t forget that the times are Eastern Daylight Time, so you will need to refer to the Time Zone Converter to work out the ...
Nowadays there are so many different and amazing things you can do with your photographs online. You can store them, create gorgous slideshows, among other things. In this post I am going to outline sites for the following:
1) Sites for uploading photos to the Internet for storage
2) A search engine for royalty free photos
3) A talking photo site
4) A site for making large classroom posters
5) Sites for creating lovely slideshows
Take a look at this Slideshare for ideas:
Have ...
I also like to use Spiderscribe to mindmap as you can do so much more with it than with bubbl.us. With Spiderscribe you can easily make a very engaging attractive mindmap:
*you can add a text note, and even include active weblinks
*you can add photos,
*you can attach Word documents or PDFs
*you can attach maps
*you can attach calendar events. Below you can see more clearly the five elements you can add. Spiderscribe can be accessed at http://www.spiderscribe.net.
Be...
Why mindmap?
Mindmapping is a great thinking tool. It has been suggested that this visual technique can improve learning and study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note-taking. It is also a very popular planning technique and definitely something one should introduce in every classroom. It is a great way to brainstorm and generate ideas.
Use bubbl.us to mindmap
What I like about bubbl.us is that it is a simple non-elaborate mindmapping tool that is easy to catch on to, and is useful...
Are you curious to know more about the Flipped Classroom? Wikispaces webinars are hosting a Flipped Classroom Panel on August 23rd where four distinguished pioneers in the field will share their experience and wisdom. This will be a very interesting discussion I am sure.
This is a unique opportunity to hear how schools plan, execute and evaluate a blended learning and flipped classroom environment.
Please click on the following link to find out more about this webinar and how to ...
Connected Educator Month is a United.States Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative, coming out of Director of the Office of Educational Technology Karen Cator’s working group on “online communities of practice.” There are an amazing number of free webinars to attend. Please note that the times are Eastern Daylight Time, so you will need to refer to the Time Zone Converter to work out the times in your region.
This is a wonderful opportunity for pro...
