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Useful Google in Education posts this week #58

After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers. All the previous posts in this series can be accessed on this link : (Google links) Useful Google in Education posts this week #58 View more lists from Fiona Beal ...

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Please join in the iEARN Virtual Media Festival on Friday June 17th 3pm (UTC+2…)

iEARN is celebrating 10 years of the Adobe Youth Voices Program with a wonderful virtual media festival showcasing films, design work and other youth productions from the iEARN collaborative media projects. This is the culmination of the AYV inspired iEARN Media Production and Exhibition Mini-Grants.  This is a video conference event using Adobe Connect so all are invited to join virtually.  Details Date: Friday, June 17 at 1:00 pm UTC (9:00 am EST).  Register: Ple...

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Keep your passwords safe using a reputable online Password Manager

This is a guest post from Carolynn Bruton, a past teacher from Cape Town. She wrote about these online Password Managers in one of her IT at Home newsletters, and has offered the post as a guest post to SchoolNet. “One of the most annoying things about online applications, including banking and applications like Twitter and Facebook, is that they all need passwords for personal log-ins. Many people continue to use the same email address and password for all their applications. Often these passwo...

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A great way that Periscope, the free broadcasting app, can be used at a conference

Submitted by Fiona Beal The biggest technology conference in the world, ISTE, is due to take place in Denver, USA this month. I have once again joined the NOTATISTE Google Community which runs parallel to ISTE with exciting ideas and great sharing. It’s amazing what you can learn from this community! I have already picked up some great things about Periscope, the free broadcasting app, by reading something that Tony Vincent posted in the community. What is Periscope Periscope is a free, live-streami...

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Useful Google in Education posts this week #57

After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers. All the previous posts in this series can be accessed on this link : (Google links) Useful Google in Education posts this week #57 View more lists from Fiona Beal ...

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Intel Education Team Volunteers in a rural school in the North West

Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet Over the last two weeks (9th -20th May 2016), Kgaphamadi Secondary School in the North West Province hosted 7 Intel staff who hailed from the United States, Spain and China. The IESC team visited and worked with the proof of concept school to get the school started with their sponsored Golden Creek 2 in 1 devices, Content Access Point so that they could easily share learning and teaching materials and hosted training for teachers for 2 hours every day for the ...

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MIEExpert Spotlight #16: Hawa Patel says that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code…

This is the sixteenth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at . Today we focus on Hawa Patel from Johannesburg who is one of our Microsoft’s #MIEExperts for 2016 from South Africa. Hawa is the Deputy Principal at Roshnee Islamic School and she is also HOD in CAT/IT/ICT and Life Orientation. Hawa has gained other Microsoft titles in previous years namely #MS Innovative teacher 2011 and #MIEE 2014  With the advance in ...

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