An exciting announcement – Google Education Groups (GEGs) launched in South Africa. Join us!
An exciting new venture was launched by Google in South Africa at the Summit – Google Education groups at this URL: http://www.google.com/landing/geg/ This is a world-wide launch with each country having its own GEGs We invite you to join GEG South Africa. This announcement In South Africa at the Google in Education Summit was received with great excitement. Google believes that the best inspiration to educators are other educators. Go...Read more
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you ever thought of using a Google+ community for classroom interaction or to run an online course? I recently created a community to use for running an online coure and it worked extremely well. I thought I would share the steps to creating such a community below.
Using a Google+ community to run an online course
This is a paperless way of running a course. The course materials are housed on another site such as a website, a Google site or a blog. If assessments or pol...
The Google in Education Summit held last week at Dainfern College in Johannesburg was a really awesome event. The EdTech team had seven amazing presenters – see more here http://za.gafesummit.com/2014/presenters who presented along with some of our local stars who are using Google effectively in the classroom.
An exciting new venture was launched by Google in South Africa at the Summit – Google Education groups at this URL: http://www.google.com/landing/geg/ This is a world-wide la...
After our recent Google Summit in Cape Town many teachers were excited about the possibility of using Google Apps in the classroom. It seems so exciting that there is a quick and easy way to embrace Google in your classroom or school and make daily use of Google Search, Google Drive, Google Forms, get your students a Gmail address that is moderated by the teacher for school use, and all the other free Google products that work so well in education. In fact here is a quick summary of ten things one...
The very successful first ever in Africa Google in Education Summit, presented by the International Ed Tech Team from the US and hosted by SchoolNet and Parklands College at Parklands in Cape Town, has been and gone…leaving behind a trail of excitement about the possibilities of using Google Apps effectively in the classroom. At the Summit there was an information session on opportunities for teachers with Google apart from using the free Google Apps in the classroom. The two opportunities...
At the recent Google in Education Summit in Cape Town there were a number of presentations outlining the usefulness of Google Chrome as a browser option. Not only is it fast and reliable as a browser but it has a unique way of enabling almost everything that you want to do in your browsing session work right from the browser bar – by means of extensions. This is what my browser bar looks like currently and the list is growing.
Another unique feature in Chrome is that the Omnibox can be...
This infographic was created by http://oakdome.com/ and I was delighted to see they give one permission to reproduce it on their own site as long as it refers back to them. Thank you! This was created specifically for iPads but it mostly relates to the use of Google Drive on any platform.
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Do you sometimes just feel like writing a particular email to get it done even though it is only due to be sent in a few days time? I often land up in situations like that and I have discovered a really great Chrome extension that facilitates this. It is called BOOMERANG and it works with Chrome or Firefox.
What is Boomerang for Gmail
This is a gmail inbox management tool that not only allows you to schedule the sending time of your emails but also has a number of other features:
With regard to sche...
Greetings from the South Africa Google in Education planning committee. Recently, we announced the first annual Google in Education South Africa Summit to be hosted by SchoolNet South Africa and Parklands College on Sep. 26th and 27th, 2013. Registration is now open! We’re especially excited to announce William Florance from Google to keynote our event. Here is a link to the event website with all of the information: za.gafesummit.com
Request for presenters
We are hoping...
SchoolNet is thrilled to be hosting the Google Summit in Cape Town on 26th and 27th of September 2013. These summits are held all over the world very successfully by the Ed Tech Team from the USA, but this is a first for Africa. The summit aims at K-12 teachers and Higher Education. You can read more and find out how to register on the website created especially for the event. http://za.gafesummit.com. The team will be bringing out a grand array of speakers as well as some Google engineers – but they a...
