Office 365 #12: How to send an email message using Outlook.com
The Office 365 core email service is Outlook.com, formerly known as Outlook Web App. Sending an email from Outlook.com is very easy. Just click on +new mail, and as you type in the name of the recipient, Outlook will offer you suggestions. Once you have entered the names of your recipients, type out the body of your message and add attachments such as documents or images if you need to. Click on send and your email will be delivered to the recipients.
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Yesterday I was pointed to this wonderful iEARN collaborative global digital storytelling project ‘Folk Tales/Storytelling around the world’. This has been a popular global digital storytelling project since 2006 with variations on the project title from year to year… and it is still going. The current project runs from September 2014 – March 2015
I took a look at the description of the current project, found at http://collaborate.iearn.org/space-2/group-83/about in the IEARN proj...
Often, after an exciting event one wants to create a chronological story from all the tweets shared on a specially created Twitter hashtag as a memory of the events before the tweets disappear . My usual tweet archiver has not been working well lately so I decided to try Chirpstory.com created by a team in Japan to curate the tweets from the recent Google Innovation Tour in Cape Town. (I wrote a post about the Google Innovation Tour in Cape Town which can be read here.)
1. Create a Chirpstory account a...
TeachMeets are a fantastic opportunity for meaningful and enjoyable professional development. Stirling Primary and Clarendon Primary in East London take it in turns to run a TeachMeet for local teachers oncce a term.’Keen Beans’ present a three minute presentation and the ‘Enthusiastic Lurkers’ enjoy the presentations. Everybody has a great time and takes back loads of ideas to use in the classroom. Claire Dean from Stirling and Sharon Cox from Clarendon run these Tea...
The Nokia Mobile Maths competition 3rd-9th November starts today the 3rd November, and there are great prizes up for grabs! If your Grade 10 –12 Maths students haven’t yet registered at https://momaths.nokia.com let them do so today. This could be a great way to revise for the upcoming exams.
If your students log in to your Nokia Mobile Maths account at https://momaths.nokia.com and open the section called NEWS they will see mention of the Maths challenge. It is only for one week, fr...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
SchoolNet SA is pleased to announce our appointment as Google’s Education Partner in South Africa. We will be offering free GEG training workshops around the country as well as overseeing the formation of Google Education Groups (GEGs) in the different provinces. It is hoped to grow South Africa’s pool of voluntary GEG leaders (practising teachers who are ICT champions) from the workshop attendees. These GEG groups and the GEG training are part of Google’s worldwide s...
Submitted by Janet Thomson
In
preparation for online participation in the CCTI, the Commonwealth of Learning
(COL) engaged SchoolNet South Africa (SNSA) to conduct an orientation workshop
for approximately 100 participants in Kampala, Uganda, on October 24, 2014.
SchoolNet
engaged Gerald Roos and Senzo Ngcobo to travel to Kampala and facilitate the
workshop. The Ministry of Education and Sport of Uganda (MoES) appointed
Harriet Kagezi to coordinate the programme in Uganda. She was assisted by
Gilbert Eng...
Submitted by Janet Thomson
On the weekend of October 10 and 11th the Professional Development programme for the Western Cape Grade 1 and Grade R teachers reached Module 4 (Learning Stations) and Module 7 (Xbox Kinect and Games in the Classroom). The workshops were held at The Metro East District offices in Kuils River, Cape Town.
Day 1 – Module 4 – Learning Stations
At the start of the workshop Rodney Nissen, the facilitator asked teachers to reflect on how they have been using their own tea...
SchoolNet is proud of one of their project managers, Hlengiwe Mfeka, who was featured in the Echo Maritzburg recently on World Teachers’ Day.
The link to the article in the Echo Maritzburg of the 16th October can be found on this link for further reading: http://goo.gl/AgZZDp
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