Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you explored Microsoft’s free digital notebook – OneNote? Basically OneNote takes the place of paper notebooks. It can be used for everything you need to remember at school. Your learners can also use OneNote in place of their classroom notebooks. It’s an amazing program – a must for any teacher, I feel.
Introducing OneNote in its full
functionality
There’s so much you can do with OneNote. You can type, write or draw as though you were using pen to paper. One...
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 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/qLVBBP (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
There’s no doubt about it – kids love selfies! It seems that we live in a selfie culture! Most kids use selfies as a way of communicating with their
friends and celebrating a moment. In the report Teens, technology and friendships the writers point out that social media and selfies are a natural draw for tweens and teens in our photo-orientated culture. Last term, I explored the idea the idea of letting one of the classes I teach create selfie ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Last term I set my Grade 7 ICT class a task of creating a Natural Sciences
e-book project on Diseases, in line with their class curriculum, using PowerPoint. Read ‘Create
an e-book project for your class using PowerPoint’. The class presented
their projects as online e-books by uploading their PowerPoints to OneDrive so
as to give them an online address. In today’s post we take the process one step further by
adding video and sound to the e-books using the ama...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This post was inspired by a visit to one of Chamelle de Silva’s Grade R-4 learning support classes at Christel House in Cape Town. Chamelle does very exciting and interactive Literacy lessons with her learners in which they often use different types of technology. Chamelle finds that her younger learners particularly like working with PowerPoint 2013 in Literacy lessons. Learner creativity is exposed when they use the design and animation functions in PowerPoint. The learners al...
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 link to the back-dated posts is )
...
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/whzLAV (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 number of them from this past week (The link to the back-dated posts is )
...
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/IBvmcl (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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