The 2015 Microsoft Global Skypeathon is over but what an achievement!
Yes, the Microsoft Global Skypeathon is over but what an achievement! In the last couple of weeks Microsoft has been advertising this great event on all its social media platforms. The planned date was the 3rd and 4th December. The goal was that Microsoft’s Global Skype-a-Thon would attempt to travel a million virtual miles during the two day event! It seemed an ambitious goal. However the final result was 3 million miles over the two days! That’s 120 times around the world in 2 days! If you go t...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:
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #29
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Every year I get my Grade 1- Grade 8 classes ICT classes to create avatars to use for various purposes for example to upload to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profiles, Gmail profiles, blog profiles etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details. We’ll start off with the free avatar-building BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF found at http://www.buildyourwildself.com/. No registration or login is required.
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After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are thirteen that have caught my eye so far.
Great Google posts this week #36
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The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), working in partnership with the Brunei Darussalam Government, wishes to announce Master’s Degree scholarships for five people from Commonwealth countries, preferably working in Higher Education Institutions or Departments of Higher Education, to study on a full-time basis in Brunei Darussalam for one or two years.
The scholarships are available for programmes commencing in July/August 2016 in three participating institutions in Brunei Darussalam.
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A message from Microsoft South Africa
”At Microsoft, we believe a powerful way to learn is from each other. That’s why we are hosting an event to empower students and educators around the globe to do just that. We will hosting a Global Skype-a-Thon on December 3rd and 4th to celebrate learning without borders by hoping to reach a goal of one million virtual miles travelled in 48 hours.
Everyone who participates in the Skype-a-thon will share their “travels” in a fun and creati...
Tagxedo is a free, web-based word cloud creator. Word clouds are visual images made up of words from various sources. The interesting thing that sets Tagxedo apart from other word cloud creatores is that you can place your words into an interesting shape. You can also add colour and different fonts to the words. The size of the text in the word cloud is dependant on how many times a particular word is added to the word cloud.
My students love using Tagxedo. One of the advantages is that you are n...
This is an email from the Global Education network regarding their upcoming webinar
“Join us on Thursday, December 3, from 7:00 – 8:00 pm US-EST, (UTC-5) for a look at the latest research in learning science and why it matters to math teachers. For South African teachers this would be 2am – 3am!
How can we take the research about teaching and learning and translate it into practice?
What are: “framing,” the “growth mindset,” the “testing effect,” the “ret...
Get free access to quality Maths Grade 10-12 learning content 24/7 on any device. Register at https://math.microsoft.com. This service known as Microsoft Math has been in South Africa since 2008. It was formerly known as Nokia Math.
Microsoft Math makes the learning experience personal, engaging and exciting. Students can do math exercises, read theory, learn from examples, and take tests.
Microsoft Math adds a social dimension to education, making it possible to collaborate and compete with other s...
