One of Google’s great offerings is Gmail. You can do so much with a Gmail email account. Have you ever wondered how to set up a group email in Gmail? I have been wondering about this and today I set myself up to learn how to do it. It is really not as difficult as I thought. Here is a video explanation from YouTube:
This type of account is useful to teachers to possibly set up a Gmail group account for homework help for example.
Other interesting posts relating to Gmail are as follows:
1) ...
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Kobus’ blog which gives loads of tips and practical advice for the integration of ICT in South African context.
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What is this application?
This is called FLASHCARDS and it is an application from Microsoft Education Labs. I really like the idea of these flashcards. This is a great programme to teach your learners at school to use. They could use it for anything where facts are important – vocabulary recognition, spelling, history etc.
When we were in Seattle one of the group designed flashcards about Seattle, and at the time I was really taken with the idea.
Microsoft Partners in learni...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Friday 21st October and Saturday 22nd October I was very privileged to be able to attend the last two sessions of Sarietjie Musgrave’s Peer Coaching workshop at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. This was a large group of at least fifty teachers. Sarietjie was aided by Mrs Bouwie van der Walt. I was also able to visit Eunice High School in Bloemfontein for the day on Thursday 20th October to observe the benefits of the peer coaching progr...
Intel@ Teach recently celebrated training 10 million teachers! (SchoolNet offers their marvelous courses free of charge to educators in South Africa). Intel called this celebration ‘10 million teachers – Opening Doors of Opportunity’ and they asked teachers around the world to submit their teacher stories Three of our South African teachers (all ‘Schoolnetters’) have their stories featured on their site – http://10millionteachers.intel.com/
1. Brenda Hallowes
School N...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I have just been reading about the 2011 K-12 online conference (presumably from the USA) that will be taking place starting 28 November. I have never participated in an online conference before but would like to do so this time to see what it is like, and of course, depending on whether there are topics that will be of interest.
Here is a quote from their website:
“The 2011 K-12 Online Conference theme is “Purposeful Play,” and this year our conference will be ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Tuesday 16 August I wrote a blog post about a Grade 4 class in the USA wanting to create a peace video for International Peace Day on 21st September (https://www.schoolnet.org.za/2011/08/would-you-like-to-get-involved-in.html). This was the message they put out:
“Dear Classrooms Around the Globe,
This year my fourth grade classroom at Lafayette Regional School in Franconia, NH would like to have a big celebration for International Peace Day on Sept 21, 2011. In hon...
Introduction – Jing and Screenr
A few months ago I decided to use screencasting more in lessons. The first programme I tried was Jing. I actually liked it so much that I took out the pro membership which was very cheap but gave more benefits. Then I discovered Screenr which seems to have all the benefits of Jing pro as well, although it is free. I wanted my class to do two things:
*Learn how to create a Voki (a little avatar that can speak) .
*Get their Vokis to complain about an issue in...
Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a very popular free application that allows users to create a visual story (show and tell presentation) from their digital photos. The software allows adding narration, effects, transitions and background music to create a Windows Media Video movie file with pan and zoom effects. Once a photo story has been made it can be played on a PC using Windows Media Player.
Here is a tutorial for using Photostory 3 from the Partn...
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One of Google’s great offerings is Gmail. You can do so much with a Gmail email account. Have you ever wondered how to set up a group email in Gmail? I have been wondering about this and today I set myself up to learn how to do it. It is really not as difficult as I thought. Here is a video explanation from YouTube:
This type of account is useful to teachers to possibly set up a Gmail group account for homework help for example.
Other interesting posts relating to Gmail are as follows:
1) ...
What is this application?
This is called FLASHCARDS and it is an application from Microsoft Education Labs. I really like the idea of these flashcards. This is a great programme to teach your learners at school to use. They could use it for anything where facts are important – vocabulary recognition, spelling, history etc.
When we were in Seattle one of the group designed flashcards about Seattle, and at the time I was really taken with the idea.
Microsoft Partners in learni...
...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Friday 21st October and Saturday 22nd October I was very privileged to be able to attend the last two sessions of Sarietjie Musgrave’s Peer Coaching workshop at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. This was a large group of at least fifty teachers. Sarietjie was aided by Mrs Bouwie van der Walt. I was also able to visit Eunice High School in Bloemfontein for the day on Thursday 20th October to observe the benefits of the peer coaching progr...
Intel@ Teach recently celebrated training 10 million teachers! (SchoolNet offers their marvelous courses free of charge to educators in South Africa). Intel called this celebration ‘10 million teachers – Opening Doors of Opportunity’ and they asked teachers around the world to submit their teacher stories Three of our South African teachers (all ‘Schoolnetters’) have their stories featured on their site – http://10millionteachers.intel.com/
1. Brenda Hallowes
School N...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I have just been reading about the 2011 K-12 online conference (presumably from the USA) that will be taking place starting 28 November. I have never participated in an online conference before but would like to do so this time to see what it is like, and of course, depending on whether there are topics that will be of interest.
Here is a quote from their website:
“The 2011 K-12 Online Conference theme is “Purposeful Play,” and this year our conference will be ...
Introduction – Jing and Screenr
A few months ago I decided to use screencasting more in lessons. The first programme I tried was Jing. I actually liked it so much that I took out the pro membership which was very cheap but gave more benefits. Then I discovered Screenr which seems to have all the benefits of Jing pro as well, although it is free. I wanted my class to do two things:
*Learn how to create a Voki (a little avatar that can speak) .
*Get their Vokis to complain about an issue in...
