Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #27
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Global Education Conference Day 4 – Final Day. Why not join in?
We have been including daily blog posts on the schedule of the Global Education Conference. These can be accessed as follows:
Day 1:here.
Day 2: http://goo.gl/R89Lbz
Day 3: http://goo.gl/4IY2FO
The Global Education Conference Network tells us about the plan for today, Day 4, in an email: “Thursday, November 19th, is the fourth and final day of the sixth annual Global Education Conference! We’ve had three great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken plac...Read more
Today (18th Nov) is the online Global Education Conference Day 3
We wrote about the Global Education Conference Day 2 yesterday http://goo.gl/R89Lbz and Day 1 the day before here. The Global Education Conference Network tells us about today, Day 3 in an email: “Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. We’ve had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.”
Thomas Petra â€@RealWorldMath 6...Read more
Have you tried using Microsoft’s OneDrive in your classroom? Free online storage and also a collaborative space…
Perhaps your school doesn’t use Microsoft Office 365 but you would like to have access to a cloud system that uses Microsoft so that you and your students can access and work on documents at home? This is where the free application Microsoft One Drive comes in. OneDrive is advertised as ‘One place for everything in your life’.
What is OneDrive?
Microsoft OneDrive is a online cloud system that you can join with a Microsoft account and immediately be allowed 5GB of free storage. Once there you’ll...Read more
The Global Education Conference Day 2 is here! Why not join in online?
We wrote about the Global Education Conference Day 1 yesterday. The post can be accessed here. The Global Education Conference Network tells us about Day 2 in an email:
“Tuesday, November 17th, is day two of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. We had a great opening day of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page.
Barbara Cotter â€@BcCotter 3 minutes agoIt’s only day one of @globaledcon ...Read more
The Global Education Conference Day 1 is here – join online for free!
Steve Hargadon, Co-founder and co-chair of the Global Education Conference says in an email:The sixth annual Global Education Conference, our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend!
A full listing of sessions is below. You’re going to be blown away.
The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-...Read more
Ideas on getting your students to contribute to Wikipedia…some great advantages!
Submitted by Fiona Beal
How do you encourage the use of Wikipedia in your classroom? I have noticed that whenever upper primary school or Middle school students that I teach look for information on the Internet for an assignment, one of the first sites they visit is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is very often a student’s first port of call. The interesting thing about Wikipedia articles is that most if not all of them have references that one can check.
What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia...Read more
Are your students registered for the free Microsoft Math online revision program?
Microsoft Math is a free, online space where Grade 10-12 Mathematics students can improve their Maths in their own time. It has been adapted to our South African curriculum and can be accessed at. https://math.microsoft.com. This is a space where our South African Mathematics learners can practice, learn. collaborate and compete with one another using their smart phones after school hours. They can also use the program on a tablet or a laptop/desktop.
Watch this 3 minute YouTube video entitled â€...Read more
14 Great Google posts this week #33
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions recently, these are fourteen that have caught my eye so far.
1. Eight Great Google Tips for Every Educator
http://goo.gl/ajZkDN
This post has eight great tips for educators plus it shows the video below.
2. Seven new features added to Google Classroom
http://goo.gl/bHPfn7
Google Classroom is improving all the time. Here are the latest improvements:
1. Post Questions
2. Reuse Assignme...Read more
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #26
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