30 Days of Web Tools: #10 Use Pinterest as a classroom resource
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Pinterest is one of those social networking programmes that everybody is talking about. It is one of those applications that you know you are going to have to do something about joining at some stage! So, when a friend recently invited me to join Pinterest, I knew the moment of joining and trying out this amazing and popular application had arrived. I made a start by reading Edudemic’s ‘Teacher’s Quick Guide to Pinterest. http://edudemic.com/2012/03/the-...Read more
On Wednesday evening 18th July (and for another four Wednesdays after that) Microsoft Partners in Learning, Johannesburg is running a LEAP21 series of webinars on assessing 21st century skills, from 6 – 6:30 pm using their Lync webinar software. The one on Wednesday 18th is the first in a series on the five dimensions of 21st Century learning.
Join ALL the online meetings at this web address https://join.microsoft.com/meet/v-angels/Q6Z25RJQ.
This webinar series will focus on innovative ...
Submitted by Janet Thomson, Executive Director of SchoolNetSA
On 2-4 July 2012 I attended Education Week which is one of the the largest education conferences and exhibitions in Africa. It was held at the Sandton Centre in Johannesburg. This post serves to highlight some of the presentations given during Education Week 2012.
1) How to use and build online communities
by Janet Thomson, Executive Director of SchoolnetSA
The organisers of the African Education Week conference requested S...
Recently I was faced with a problem. Some of the Constant Contact newsletter links that I had placed on the blog no longer worked…they had expired. I thought the best thing to do would be to convert the newsletters to PDFs and upload them to Box.net with a link to the blog. But, Constant Contact didn’t seem to supply any way of converting these newsletters to PDF.
Google Chrome extension – Send to Google Docs.
Then I remembered the wonderful free Chrome extensions for Go...
Have you ever tried to open two documents to compare them? You wish you could see immediately what changes you have already made? Comparing, editing and sharing documents is really a way of life for most of us – and Mergely provides a way of doing this easily.
What is Mergely and how does it work?
Mergely is a useful online tool that can help you merge text documents and highlight changes made to existing documents. To do this you open Mergely and paste the original document into the left...
What are Wordclouds?
Wordclouds are such fun to use in the classroom, especially when it comes to vocabulary building. Basically, using a wordcloud application one can transfer words into a cloud of interconnected words that can be arranged and used in different ways. Users can change the layout, color scheme, and fonts. Students love working with wordclouds. Two very popular free wordcloud webtools are Wordle and Tagxeedo, and I am going to explain each below plus give ideas of how ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you discovered, like me, that Twitter is a very beneficial way of learning from a PLN (Personal Learning Community)? I find most of my ideas stem from my educational Twitter community. Every day I come across an educational newspaper that has been created by a PLN member using Paper.Li and their Twitter feeds so I decided it was time to try it out for myself.
What is Paper.li?
Curation, as you probably know, is the new buzz word. Paper.li is a free curation tool...
