After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are 18+ that look useful for teachers.
Great Google posts this week #42
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Next Vista for Learning (http://www.nextvista.org/) is a wonderful video sharing site directed at teachers and students. Videos on Next Vista are made by teachers and students for teachers and students. Throughout the school year Next Vista hosts video creation contests for students and teachers. The owner of this site is Rushton Hurley, a marvelous motivational education speaker who has been out to South Africa frequently to speak at various conferences for teachers. I have heard him twice at Google for...
How do you transform mathematics from the most disliked subject in school to every student’s favourite pastime, even beyond school walls? By introducing Microsoft Math! Microsoft Math is a free, online high school learning support service for Grade 10-12 students in South Africa and globally, provided by Microsoft. This is a 24-hour service that will benefit Grade 10-12 Maths learners enormously. It is available on any device and it provides:
thousands of Maths exercises
examples of how to sol...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Often, after a holiday break, teachers want to get their students writing about their holiday. A really fun way to do this is to get them to write their report back in Microsoft Word using a selected template.
I discovered a great template for this in the fabulous Oakdome site.The template is in the form of a cell phone! I tried this out on a Grade 4 class and they loved the experience!
The writing task
“Describe, in around 200 words or less, one or two events from your su...
This is the second post in the series “MIEExpert
Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Brescia House School in Johannesburg is well known for its
standards of excellence in education. It is a private Catholic school for girls that rates the use of
technology as a high priority for all students at the school. The girls use
different devices to suit the needs to the various age groups, for example
iPads are used in the Foundation Phase; Windows 8 ta...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This is the fourth in a series of posts on using
avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as
uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile,
Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these
various avatar creation applications in more details. Previous posts can be
accessed by clicking on the avatars tag on the blog here http://goo.gl/72Q0cu.
Today we look at Be Funky.&...
Microsoft has recently launched the official Learning Tools for OneNote (Customer Preview) add-in. It can be downloaded from http://www.onenote.com/learningtools.
The Learning Tools for OneNote add-in helps everyone improve their reading and writing skills, including gifted learners, students with learning differences or a combination of any of the broad range of unique student abilities.
“Students spend so much energy decoding that they can’t focus on content. This tool will help...
In our previous post about the new Microsoft Educator Community entitled, ‘Take some time to join the new Microsoft Educator Community today!‘ we spoke about how to join this great new community that Microsoft has developed. You’ll find this community at:
https://www.educatornetwork.com/. This new site is a central destination where you’ll have access to well over 1.5 million educators around the world plus more. Some of the things you’ll be able to do on the Microsoft Educa...
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