4Africa Virtual Academy webinar #4: Flip your classroom with Office Mix – a local webinar from Microsoft Johannesburg on Thurs 3pm (GMT+2)
We invite you to join Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngobeni who will be presenting a free Microsoft webinar this Thursday 12th November at 3pm. It features the free PowerPoint 2013 add-in called ‘Office Mix’ Office Mix is a free add-in for PowerPoint 2013. It is a powerful tool that makes authoring and sharing of online lessons / presentations simple. It allows you to make them interactive with quizzes and labs. It allows you to export lessons as mp4 videos. During the webinar Megan and Victor...Read more
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Date and time:
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:00 pm
Time zone (Windhoek, GMT+2)
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Panelist(s) Info:
Dwayne AltonDirector of IT Support, School District of Lee County (Fla.)
John Allen from Google for Education
Duration:1 hour
Description:
“Personalizing Learning With Google Apps and Chromebooks
A District Administration Web Seminar
The School...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions recently, these are the ten that have caught my eye so far.
1. Microsoft Releases New Office Extension For Google Chrome
http://goo.gl/kc5ZLa
This is great news for Chrome users and even Chromebook users. Microsoft Office team released, a few days ago, a new Google Chrome extension that lets you create and open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Sway documents using Office Online right from the Chrome browser. Yo...
The free Microsoft webinar scheduled for Thursday 12th November features the free PowerPoint 2013 add-in called ‘Office Mix’ that enables you to easily create videos to share with your class.
Time: Thursday afternoon 12 November at 3pm – 3:45.
Presenter: Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngebeni
Topic:Office Mix
Explanation: “Office Mix is a free add-in for PowerPoint 2013. It is a powerful tool that makes authoring and sharing of online lessons / presentations simple. It allows you to make them ...
