Some great ‘Top 10 posts’ showing great collections of useful, free web resources for the classroom
Every now and then you come across a great blog that shares really interesting resources and shows how to use them in the classroom. Today I came across such a blog called Raki’s Rad Resources and on this blog were a number of great posts I would like to share with you http://www.rakisradresources.com
I really liked the Top Ten Lists that she has placed on her blog. These are collections of resources she has collected and feels they are worth sharing:
1. 10 best reading websites for the elementary cl...Read more
The Google Educator Group (GEG) for Cape Town West Coast is being launched today at Parklands College in Table View from 3-6pm. Please just arrive if you haven’t yet booked. Here is a message that I received from the organiser yesterday:
“We’re really excited to have you at our Google Educator Group Launch tomorrow. We can’t wait to share the concept of the community with you. The programme for tomorrow is going to look something like this:
15:00 – Welcome and ̶...
This is a guest post from Deidre Bothma who is the Digital Learning Coordinator at Elkanah House Junior Schools. Deidre does very exciting lessons in her Grade R – 3 classes using a wide range of technology applications. In this post she uses Microsoft’s PowerPoint and Slideboom. This post also featured on Deidre’s blog http://technoboffins.wordpress.com/grade3/ Thank you for allowing us to use your post as a guest post Deidre!
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Have your Grade 10 – 12 students signed up for the great, free online Maths help service,Nokia Mobile Maths? This service is available on a web browser as well as a smartphone. The first thing to do is to register at https://momaths.nokia.com. It’s free of charge.
Recently Nokia Mobile Mathematics held a competition with great prizes, and the winners have been announced. This announcement can be found in the news section of the Nokia Mobile Maths application
The announcement says,
“Congratula...
This invitation comes from Tiaan Lotter a Google Educator Group (GEG) leader who teaches at Parklands College in Cape Town.
‘Google Educator Group?’ you ask. ‘What are they?’ Google Educator Groups (GEGs) are being established all over the world. They offer (free of charge) training to enhance the technical abilities of teachers and establish a platform for teachers in a community to collaborate and learn from one another. Here in South Africa SchoolNet is Google’s Education partn...
Office 365 core service for this post: Lync
You can use a Lync video conference to invite a ‘guest expert’ into your classroom – or even a grandparent to read to your class at story time.
Simply add your guest as a contact in People, and then schedule an online meeting with them using the Schedule meetingtool under their name. Your guest will get a link to the meeting and if they don’t have Lync on their computer they will be able to download it or use the Web App.
You will have a v...
A message from Steve Haragon, Co-Chair of the annual online Global Education Conference
“Thursday, November 20th, is day four of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. We had yet another great day of sessions and keynotes on Wednesday, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page (which includes the ones listed below up until you get this note).
The list of today’s sessions, in US-Eastern Standard Time, is below. To see t...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Thinking of creating a simple website without any knowledge of HTML? Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. Basically, you would follow this sequence:
Log into your Google account and go to http://sites.google.com
Click the Create button
Choose the Blank Template
Name your site. You’ll notice it creates the URL based on the name but you can change that if you wish. The name you choose must be unique in your domain.
S...
Office 365 core services for this post: Outlook.com, Calendar
Did you know you could share your calendar? Office 365 makes it easy, and you can choose how much of the information is shared – all of it or only some.
In Outlook.com you can add multiple calendars of other users who have shared their calendars with you to view on one screen. This is extremely useful when it comes to scheduling tutoria...
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Wednesday, November 19th, is day three of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. We had another great day of sessions and keynoteson Tuesday, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.
The list of Wednesday’s sessions, in US-Eastern Standard Time, is below. To see the the full conference schedule in your own time zone, with the direct links to session rooms, go to the conference schedule page. Follow the conference throug...
