Teachers, get started with Twitter – you’ll never look back!
Nowadays, in the era of
social networking, it is vital for a teacher to get on to Twitter in order
to find out what is happening in education. I have learned SO much from Twitter
and am connected to fantastic educators all over the world as a result of using
it. This post will show you how to get started.
What is
Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking service that
allows its users to send and read short 140-character messages known as tweets.
It’s a fantastic way to share ide...Read more
SeeSaw is a free application I really want to explore in
2016. Anthony Egbers demonstrated See Saw http://web.seesaw.me
, in a Demoslam presentation at the Google
Summit in 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. Ever since then I have been planning
to try out SeeSaw. It is available via
a browser or via iOS and Android.
What exactly is
SeeSaw?
SeeSaw enables to to create and host Student Driven Digital Portfolios. This is what the SeeSaw website
says: “SeeSaw empowers students of any a...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Yesterday I received an email from Kottie Christie-Blick in New York. She mentions a very interesting opportunity for a South African teacher. This is what she says:
“I enjoyed my time living in South Africa and visiting the schools. I’m now back in New York and am working on two projects that may be of interest to your South African teachers. One is an interactive website my students and I recently created to provide an audience for children t...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Today when I was browsing the net I cam upon an
interesting publication called The Feed #3
hosted in Docs. com. It reminded me of SlideShare.
On closer examination I discovered that Docs.com
is a file sharing site from Microsoft that lets you share many of your
Microsoft Office files with other people. The interesting thing is that when
you share, the file formats of your files are unchanged. The Feed #3,
then, is Microsoft PowerPoint embedded and shared online. I ...
21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) for Educators is a collection of 8 courses with 4-6 lessons in each course. This learning path provides teachers with clear and practical ways to develop 21st skills using digital technologies with their students. Through a collection of Office Mix Lessons, 21st Century Learning Design for Educators builds on the research methodology providing a collaborative, practice-based process to help educators transform how they design enriching learning activities for the...
Are you looking to be more innovative ideas? Creative ideas? Disruptive
ideas? Then you don’t want to miss this global online event that takes place on
January 30, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time.
What is Hack the Classroom?
Microsoft’s Hack the
Classroom is a free digital event for educators and school leaders designed to
give educators insight into the latest trends in education. Come learn from
education thought leaders, innovative classroom educators, and students who are
changing education by e...
In our increasingly online, digital world, there is one free application Grade 10-12 Maths students cannot do without…Microsoft Math. It is a free, online high school learning support service for Grade 10-12 students in South Africa and globally) that provides:
thousands of maths exercises
examples of how to solve them
theory and tests
instant, interactive feedback
Best is that these are presented in an engaging way and they aree based precisely on the national curriculum of the countr...
