Great Google posts this week #39
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‘21st Century Learning Design’ free course now available on the Microsoft Educator Community
21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) for Educators is a collection of 8 courses with 4-6 lessons in each course. This learning path provides teachers with clear and practical ways to develop 21st skills using digital technologies with their students. Through a collection of Office Mix Lessons, 21st Century Learning Design for Educators builds on the research methodology providing a collaborative, practice-based process to help educators transform how they design enriching learning activities for the...Read more
Teachers, you can’t afford to miss ‘Hack the Classroom’ – the largest digital event worldwide from Microsoft on 30th January 2016
Are you looking to be more innovative ideas? Creative ideas? Disruptive
ideas? Then you don’t want to miss this global online event that takes place on
January 30, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time.
What is Hack the Classroom?
Microsoft’s Hack the
Classroom is a free digital event for educators and school leaders designed to
give educators insight into the latest trends in education. Come learn from
education thought leaders, innovative classroom educators, and students who are
changing education by e...Read more
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #33
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Plan to encourage your Grade 10-12 maths students to register for the free Microsoft Math online revision program in 2016
In our increasingly online, digital world, there is one free application Grade 10-12 Maths students cannot do without…Microsoft Math. It is a free, online high school learning support service for Grade 10-12 students in South Africa and globally) that provides:
thousands of maths exercises
examples of how to solve them
theory and tests
instant, interactive feedback
Best is that these are presented in an engaging way and they aree based precisely on the national curriculum of the countr...Read more
Great Google posts this week #38
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What is the right (Learning Management System) LMS for you and why would you use one?
In our modern digitally-orinetated classrooms, the use of a Learning Management
System (LMS) classrooms helps the teacher connect the students’ everyday life
with an educational system for easier technology integration. A learning
management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration,
documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic educational
technology courses or teaching programs. LMSes are made to help educators create
and deliver content...Read more
Create a simple New Year greeting using Microsoft PowerPoint…
It is very simple to create a lovely New Year’s greeting to put on Facebook
or a blog using Microsoft PowerPoint. It takes next to no time! We have done
this for two year’s running now.
What do you need
PowerPoint installed on your device or
you can use the free PowerPoint online found in OneDrive
A free PowerPoint
template
Some creativity…
Steps to creating an image greeting
1. Search for Free Happy New Year PowerPoint templates using your browser. I
came up with a selection from a site c...Read more
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #32
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How to open and view an emailed PDF document on a mobile device
Generally if you are going to send documents to another person via email, the
safest and most popular format to use is the PDF format. This is because the PDF
format keeps the formatting in the document intact but also because free
applications to open PDFs can be easily downloaded from the Internet.
Opening emailed PDFs on Android devices
Android devices can view PDF files easily by downloading Google Drive, a free
application, from the Google Play store, that is, if it is...Read more
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