Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #131

The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at  The link to the back-dated posts is:  ...

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Tech Talk – by Justin Harper, MIEExpert and IT Manager at SAHETI School, a Microsoft Showcase School in Johannesburg

Justin Harper and Saheti School came into the spotlight recently in a Business Day newspaper article entitled ‘Hi Tech approach to education’. We have mentioned Justin in a few blog posts before. He was one of the five teachers from South Africa selected to attend the Microsoft Global E2 Exchange in Toronto in 2016. You can read about him in the post  ‘Meet the five South African MIEExpert Educators attending the Microsoft E2 Education Exchange in Toronto’ In this ar...

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Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #130

The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at  The link to the back-dated posts is:  ...

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Screencasting with Screencast-o-Matic – a superb tool for making classroom videos

Submitted by Fiona Beal My favourite screencasting tool, right now, is Screencast-O-Matic. Screencast-O-matic is a free, online tool 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 videos 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. Screenca...

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Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #129

The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at . The link to the back-dated posts is:  ...

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Do you know about the free Freemake Video Downloader and the Freemake Video Converter software?

Submitted by Fiona Beal One of the great, offline, freeware tools that I have used on my Windows laptop for several years – since 2014 when I first heard about it – is the very popular Freemake software. Do you know it? It consists of the Freemake Video Converter application and the The Freemake Video downloader.  I have found both of these to be safe and reliable free software, and have used them time and again very successfully.  You can obtain these from Freemake http://www.fr...

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