Think about entering the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship for students between the ages of 13 and 22
In its 14th year currently, the 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) attracted 600,000 unique candidates who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products. 145 student finalists from 47 countries participated in the final round of competition.
“More than 1.2 billion people use Office worldwide, and these students have taken the time to set themselves apart as the best of the best,” said Alison Cunard, general manager of Learning Experiences at Micros...Read more
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Have you heard of Microsoft Snip? Snip is a standalone app that lets you add your voice and doodles to screen grabs. Let me tell you about it and then show you how we use it in the classroom.
More about Snip
Microsoft Snip, available in beta now, allows Windows users to capture screenshots and then annotate on them and record audio over the top. It can turn an ordinary screenshot into a screen tutorial, or you can just share your thoughts about a document or image over the web. ...
SchoolNetSA has received an email from a teacher in Canada who is offering a wonderful opportunity to a Grade 6 or 7 teacher and class in SA in digital storytelling as from September 2016 and probably continuing till the same time the following year. Would you be interested? You would need constant access to computers. The teacher would need to be open to using photography and making digital stories with his/her students. Experience with those media forms is not necessary as Hoa Truong-White will ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I discovered Google Classroom when our school moved over to Google Apps this year. Prior to that I used Edmodo for different projects and I still do because Edmodo is a fully functioning LMS and Google classroom is not…yet. BUT for my day to day teaching Google Classroom is my platform of choice because it makes life just so much easier and integrates well with the res...
We have been including daily blog posts on the schedule of the Global Education Conference. These can be accessed as follows:
Day 1:here.
Day 2: http://goo.gl/R89Lbz
Day 3: http://goo.gl/4IY2FO
The Global Education Conference Network tells us about the plan for today, Day 4, in an email: “Thursday, November 19th, is the fourth and final day of the sixth annual Global Education Conference! We’ve had three great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken plac...
We wrote about the Global Education Conference Day 2 yesterday http://goo.gl/R89Lbz and Day 1 the day before here. The Global Education Conference Network tells us about today, Day 3 in an email: “Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. We’ve had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.”
Thomas Petra @RealWorldMath 6...
Perhaps your school doesn’t use Microsoft Office 365 but you would like to have access to a cloud system that uses Microsoft so that you and your students can access and work on documents at home? This is where the free application Microsoft One Drive comes in. OneDrive is advertised as ‘One place for everything in your life’.
What is OneDrive?
Microsoft OneDrive is a online cloud system that you can join with a Microsoft account and immediately be allowed 5GB of free storage. Once there you’ll...
We wrote about the Global Education Conference Day 1 yesterday. The post can be accessed here. The Global Education Conference Network tells us about Day 2 in an email:
“Tuesday, November 17th, is day two of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. We had a great opening day of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.
Barbara Cotter @BcCotter 3 minutes agoIt’s only day one of @globaledcon ...
