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:
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This is the seventh post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Mabore Lekalaka from Limpopo who is one of our Microsofts #MIEExperts for 2016. She has written a guest post showing her use of Office Mix in the classroom. Mabore is a keen user of Office Mix and she shares how she uses it for teaching Mathematics. Mabore was one of four teachers representing South Africa in 2015 in Seattle at the E2 ...
Google Photos is a photograph and video sharing and storage service by Google. It was announced in May 2015 but recently it has come under the spotlight as Google is retiring the ever-popular Picasa web albums in March 2016. All the albums stored in Picasa will need to be moved (if Google hasn’t already done it for you) to Google Photos https://photos.google.com/. While this is all exciting, new and fresh, there is one problem that is causing many a headache!
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Most of my photo collections are stored on Google’s Picasa. Now I hear that in March 2015 Picasa will be no more!!! Help! So today I am researching Google Photos.
Google is retiring Picasa
The Google Picasa blog says: “We’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and des...
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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:
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #40
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This is the sixth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Phuti Ragophala, the principal of Pula Madibogo Primary School in Limpopo.
Phuti is in her third year of being selected as one of South Africa’s Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts. Last year she was selected to attend the Global Forum in Dubai to interact, share with and learn from innovative teachers from other countries. She was also ...
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One Drive is a free Microsoft application that gives you free access to a range of Microsoft Office products. Have you registered for One Drive? https://onedrive.live.com You’ll receive 5GB of free storage.
I discovered recently that it is a great way to display students’ stories (or whaever else) that are written in PowerPoint, online by uploading them to PowerPoint online in Microsoft. I tried this out with a Grade 2 class. There is a wonderful Literacy...
The Computer Olympiad (http://www.olympiad.org.za/) has announced its new talent search for 2016. This is a great free contest for schools to consider.
1. COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
Talent Search is a free contest to develop Computational Thinking; the kind of skill you need to take IT, CAT, Maths and Science. At the same time it will identify learners with potential. That is why many schools use it for sub...
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