How to create a signature for your emails in Gmail
With many schools turning to Google Apps one of the first things that will happen when everything is set up is that teachers will receive their new email addresses which use Gmail. Setting up a signature is something that you might like to do as a teacher to give context to your email. Gmail allows you to add custom signatures to every email you send. You can add links, images, and completely change the formatting of the text.
1. Log in to your Gmail account
2. Go to Settings
Open the Settings menu. ...Read more
This is a quick overview of a few apps that apply to fine motor skills, oral skills, writing, reading and Visual Literacy /Visual Perception skills in very young learners.
Fine Motor Skills
http://www.android4schools.com/2013/10/02/school-writing-handwriting-lessons-on-android-tablets/
Create customized handwriting lessons. Like other Android apps designed to teach handwriting, School Writing has number, letter, and word tracing activities.
Big Fat Canvas is a freedrawing app optimized for use ...
Have you ever wondered how to easily share free apps with others in a way that the apps won’t take up a lot of space on a tablet? This post highlights a great way to share your free apps without having to download them again. All you do is install them from the SD card on to your Android device using a special downloader called APK downloader (http://apk-dl.com/), and then share the SD card with someone else. When the app is to be used it is installed from the SD card.
Step 1: Use your PC for thi...
As you may recall, last year in November Nokia Maths changed its name to Microsoft maths after being bought out by Microsoft. This superb site can be accessed at https://math.microsoft.com. Best of all it is all free!
What is Microsoft Maths?
This is a site for Grade 10-12 Maths students to use after hours either in groups or individually to revise and improve their Maths content and get help with any queries…using their smartphones or tablet. The application can also be accessed from a desktop ...
This group of first time user teachers in the Port Sheptsone District have been loving the Intel Getting Stared training conducted by Nomty Gaba from SchoolNet.
The training for educators around Port Shepstone District started from the 12th to the 16th January 2015 from 09:00 – 16:00 hrs. There were 20 educators who attended Intel Getting Started course. All participants had no skills and they were first time users. Educators were from Thenjani, Imfume and Magabheni areas. The training i...
This is a guest post from Mabore Lekalakale of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Please follow Mabore on Twitter. Yesterday we posted a post from Mabore entitled ‘‘Khan Academy Maths – Learners Reality’ by Microsoft #MIEExpert from South Africa, Mabore Lelakala. Today we provide a follow up.
In yesterday’s blog post Mabore Lekalakala posted about Khan Academy and how it can provide beneficial help to Maths students.
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This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda presented this Offix Mix recvently on a Skype call with Nigeria. Linda has placed this post and this mix on her own blog and and has kindly shared it with us as a guest post on the SchoolNet blog. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com. Last week we shared Linda’’s post about her Skype call with Nigeria. You can access that post here.
The above Mix is a walk-tho...
What is the Adobe Youth Voices project?
Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle- and high-school-age youth (ages 13 – 18) in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools and to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Educators from participating sites join a glob...
This is a guest post from Mokhudu Machaba one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Mokhudu writes about One Note suggesting it could be great to use with project-based learning.
Mokhudu’s blog can be found at:
http: //projectbasedteaching.wordpress.com
What is One Note?
Wikipedia says ‘Microsoft OneNote, formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users’ notes handwritten or typed, ...
