A report back on the Google Educator Group (GEG) meeting at Grove Primary in August
On Saturday morning 27th August we had a most enjoyable GEG gathering at Grove Primary, run by the two central GEG leaders, Peter Schutte and Che Marnwick, both from Wynberg Girls High School. Google Educator Groups (GEGs) are communities of educators who learn, share, and inspire each other to meet the needs of their learners through technology solutions. The groups around the world have local teacher leaders who arrange meetings, such as Peter and Che. After tea and fun at t...Read more
Have you ever wanted to add a slideshow of photos as a presentation on Blogger, for example, and there seems to be no quick fix? I have tried several options, unsuccessfully, until I came across this amazing app developed by Matt Miller and Alice Keeler, two of my favourite Edtech bloggers!. It is called DRIVESLIDES. DriveSlides takes an open folder of images in your Google Drive and it creates a new Google Slides presentation in seconds and adds each photo in that folder to its own slide in the presen...
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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/wYFLXc . (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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Here is a messgae from Peter Schutte from Wynberg Girls High School. He is one of the GEG (Google Educator Group) Central leaders in Cape Town
Hey everyone it’s time for another exciting GEG Event (Cape Town Central), happening on Sat 26th August from 9 -11 at Grove Primary School. Please feel free to share this invite!
This is an informal event where you can connect with teachers from other schools to share.
Should you have any friends at other schools that you would like to invite please do!
To...
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 http://bit.ly/2vBv9gR. The link to the back-dated posts is:
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We are so looking forward to having Stephen Reid at the SchoolNet SA conference taking place at Brescia House School on 5 – 7 October 2017. Stephen will be doing a keynote about “Emerging Technology in Education” If you haven’t booked your spot yet, be sure to register HERE, –http://www.schoolnet.org.za/conference2017/, by the end of August to secure the early bird rate.
If you are a Minecraft: Education Edition fan you’ll definitely want to attend some of Stephen’s sessions....
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/UwcS84. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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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 . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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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/QJ8C8p. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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