How to insert a YouTube video into a Google Slides presentation
If you are making a presentation using Google Slides, you will probably want to add a video from YouTube at some stage to illustrate a point. The question is – how does one do this?
1. Open your presentation and choose the video option in the Insert menu
The video insert link appears on your slide. Add your YouTube video URL and click on search
YouTube immediately locates the video and adds it to the slide
2. Click on the video thumbnail and choose select if it is the correct video....Read more
I have only recently come across this free, webtool called Talktyper https://www.talktyper.com/. Admittedly one can now use Google Docs and the Chrome browser for dictation that types up your words, but what I like about Talktyper is that it works in any browser.
What is Talktyper?
It is a free speech to text dictation software that works in any browser.
How does it work?
All you have to do is open your browser and type in www.talktyper.com. When it opens click on the on-screen microphone...
This post is adapted from the report written by Janet Thomson, CEO of SchoolNet. The full report can be found on our website here https://goo.gl/Leh2In This post captures ten of the highlights from the report.
The Reading Association of South Africa and the Pan-African Reading for All Conference was held at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town from 2nd – 5th September. The theme was Imagination and Literacy.
1. Opening plenary
Top: David Harrison at the Opening ...
We invite you to join us for the EdTechTeam’s iOS Summit on 8th October 2015 at Parklands College.The engaging experience includes an opening keynote, Apple Distinguished Educators, in-depth workshop sessions, and a wide variety of breakout sessions …all focused on the purposeful integration of the iPad for teaching and learning. The two key speakers are world-renowned presenters Jenny Magiera and Holly Clark. The program is available to view at https://goo.gl/Q2Hm3g. Register at http://za.io...
We invite you to join us for the South Africa EdTechTeam Summit featuring Google for Education to be held at Parklands College in Cape Town.The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, Apple Distinguished Educators, practicing administrators, solution providers, and representatives from the Google education teams. The EdTechTeam has shared the preliminary schedule online at https://goo.gl/rd7YLf so that you can start envisioning the sessions yo...
School Net SA conducts professional development workshops
as part of an initiative for the Telkom Foundation. Telkom is making meaningful
contributions to improving the quality of education in the Eastern Cape
Schools. School Net SA is conducting training in the course, Change
Leadership for Technology Integration with Senior Management Teams in 12
schools in the Queenstown area of the Eastern Cape. Facing Challenges is
one of the modules covered in September. Effective school lead...
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka
Saturday the 19th of September 2015 was freezing with pouring rain in the KZN Midlands, BUT that didn’t prevent teachers in the Learning Gains through Play project from attending their TPD workshop at Thembelihle Primary School in Howick. The workshop for the two modules to be covered, Mind mapping and Gallery Walk, was attended by 16 out of 22 Grade R and 1 teachers from the five schools participating in the project – all absentees had officially forwarded their apologies...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions recently, these are the ten that have caught my eye so far.
1. Google Classroom: How to Transfer Events from One Google Calendar to Another
http://goo.gl/duC6D6
Michael Fricano says: “So you’ve got your Google Classroom calendars all set up, right? But, if you’re like me, you already had a Google Calendar going for class. So you might be asking, “How do I transfer events from my old calendar to ...
If your Grade 10-12 Maths students are not yet taking advantage of this great, free service offered by Microsoft please get them registered as soon as they return to school in the fourth term. Best though is to get them to register now before the school holidays start. This is a free service that they will benefit from enormously.
What is Microsoft Math?
Microsoft Math, https://math.microsoft.com is a great free site for Grade 10-12 Maths students to use after hours either in groups or individually ...
