Create an e-book project for your class using PowerPoint
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Did you know that PowerPoint can be used in a multitude of ways apart from it’s original purpose of making slideshows. It is a great tool for creating e-books. This is part 1 of ‘Presenting class projects as e-books’. This term I set my Grade 7 ICT class a task of creating a Natural Sciences project in line with their class curriculum and presenting it as an online e-book using PowerPoint. In the next post, in Part 2, we will look at adding video and sound to th...Read more
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/TQBrrc (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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We are pleased to announce that Megan Rademeyer and Michael Mullany will be presenting a free Microsoft Virtual Academy webinar from the Microsoft Office in Johannesburg on ‘Getting started with Office 365’. The rise of mobile technology and cloud computing has transformed the way we work, making collaboration not only easier, but also essential for the success of every organization. Office 365 meets this challenge head-on and allows seamless collaboration in real time.
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Have you seen these tweets such as ‘Participate in the #HourofCode’ or ‘Visit www.code.org’ floating around every day on Twitter?
I decided to pay www.code.org a visit to see what it was all about – and what a pleasant surprise I got! In fact, I was AMAZED to see what an incredible website this is. It caters for every age group of learners from Pre-Reader to Grade 9+. The website urged us to ‘Try a one-hour tutorial designed for all ages in over 45 langu...
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/NU4RM6. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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This is the 19th post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight” for South Africa. The tab with all the posts can be found at . Today we focus on Nosithembele Gcobo from Sentile Junior Secondary School in Queenstown. Nosithembele teaches Grade 6 at a rural school where using technology is a challenge. In this post she shares some of the challenges with ICT in rural settings and shows how she has worked at overcoming these challenges.
Integrating ICT in curriculum practice is not as easy...
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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Are you up to the challenge of the Hour of Codeâ„¢?
The Hour of Code is a global campaign to demystify code and encourage everybody to learn the basics of computer science. Microsoft is proud to be a founding partner of Code.org. and together they have developed some great Minecraft themed tutorials to introduce basic coding concepts. Globally the Hour of Code campaign is held during Computer Science Education Week (5 – 11 December 2016). During the campaign, individuals and groups around the world...
