Water is Life – Collaborate on a global problem
The water shortages in Cape Town have made all South Africans, particularly those living in the Western Cape, very much aware of the importance of saving water. But access to adequate, safe water is a global problem – we can both learn from ideas that are working in other countries, and our learners can contribute ideas of their own.
In February 2018, you can sign up to take part in the iEARN Water is Life project. As part of this global collaborative project, your students will be involved in ac...Read more
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Do your learners have access to tablets or phones that they can use to create short films? Are you looking for an opportunity for your learners to express themselves in a creative and meaningful way? Why not ask them to create a two-minute video responding to the theme “In Another’s Shoes”.
A new nonprofit StudentVoice.org has just launched the Global Student Voice Film Festival. This is an English-language film competition open globally to st...
Three South African educators, Leigh Morris, Lindsay Wesner and Chaim Moch have come up with a great idea to get more South African teachers connected to Twitter. – the ‘12 days of Twitter’ challenge, and a regular Twitter chat.
What is the 12 days of Twitter challenge?
It takes the form of a Game Board Hyperdoc with 12 challenges, which shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes a day. There is one for people who are new to Twitter, which takes teachers through the entire process of getting on ...
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There are different types of assessment methods that we use in our classes on a regular basis, depending on the assessment task at hand. Do you use any didital tools to carry out these assessments? In this post I’ll share a few ideas of some useful tools. But first, let’s review some types of assessment
Types of assessment
You are probably familiar with all of these:
1. Summative assessment: This type of assessment aims to estimate the learners’ success i...
The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at: this link: . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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How do you share links with others during
class or in a workshop? I have used several methods and thought I would document
and share some of them in a blog post.
SHARING LINKS IN A CLASSROOM SETTING
1. Use
Google Classroom
https://classroom.google.com/
I use Google Classroom with all my classes. Truth is, I love the application. Whenever
I have a class at school the first thing everyone does is log into their Google
Classroom account where everything I want to sha...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers https://goo.gl/PCXHbG (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2).
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
OneNote is one of my favourite applications for keeping organised and I will definitely be making more of this application at my school this year. I have written about OneNote before so I don’t want to repeat myself, but there are a number of reasons why this application has really captured my attention for personal use and use in my lessons.
1. OneNote is free and easy to access
I love the fact that the application is free and that it is a cross platform tool. I can...
The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at: this link: . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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Do you know AudioNote? It is a notepad and audio recorder for iOs, Android, Windows and Mac! I have been using it for a couple of years now on my iPad (https://goo.gl/sgRwW3) and on my Windows 10 laptop (https://goo.gl/Q9ydwR). Whenever I am in a workshop, lecture or any situation where I need to take notes linked to recorded audio, I use AudioNote. AudioNote has a free and a paid version. I used the free version for quite a while and then moved over to the paid version f...
