Glossi.com is a great new publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share their own digital magazines across devices…free. It looked like a great application to use with a Middle School class and I decided to use it as the end point in a lesson about setting goals.
The aim of the lesson
The students work in groups and discuss goal-setting. They select relevant categories for goal setting. Individually they create their own specific goals for each category and display their top six goals...
For a while now I have been collecting ideas on different ways of using PowerPoint in a classroom. One that I didn’t know about was using PowerPoint as a brochure. It works extremely well. I set about trying it out in a Grade 5 classroom. The Grade 5s were learning about heritage sites in South Africa and were busy with a project involving a heritage trail. I set a task on creating a PowerPoint brochure illustrating a site they would love to visit.
I gave them a template idea bu...
Have you ever considered using Popplet for mindmapping? It is a marvelous tool that is available as a webtool, as well as an Android or iPad app.
An example of a popplet from the popplet blog
Sadly you are only allowed five free popplets.. I tried out Popplet recently with a Grade 7 class that was learning about medicine in the CAPS curriculum and set them a short 45 minute revision task using this mindmapping tool. The class absolutely loved using it. The beauty of usin...
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Twitter is definitely a teacher’s best friend! The ideas…and CREATIVE ideas at that… that come from one’s Twitter PLN are phenomenal. For example in a recent tweet I saw that Mark Anderson (@ICTevangelist) recommended #FF (which means ‘follow’) @ict_magic and @teachertoolkit. Now I know the wonderful @ict_magic (Martin Burett) virtually and follow him, but didn’t know @Teachertoolkit so I look...
Isn’t it great when right here, in South Africa, you come across a site with lovely, free, downloadable worksheets in : Mathematics, English, Science, Environment, Health, Nutrition, Hygiene, Arts, Crafts and Colouring.
This site is called the e-learning classroom and it can be located at:
http://e-classroom.co.za/
When you explore the site you find so many excellent worksheets and other classroom aids.
Take a look. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!
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Glossi.com is a great new publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share their own digital magazines across devices…free. It looked like a great application to use with a Middle School class and I decided to use it as the end point in a lesson about setting goals.
The aim of the lesson
The students work in groups and discuss goal-setting. They select relevant categories for goal setting. Individually they create their own specific goals for each category and display their top six goals...
Have you ever considered using Popplet for mindmapping? It is a marvelous tool that is available as a webtool, as well as an Android or iPad app.
An example of a popplet from the popplet blog
Sadly you are only allowed five free popplets.. I tried out Popplet recently with a Grade 7 class that was learning about medicine in the CAPS curriculum and set them a short 45 minute revision task using this mindmapping tool. The class absolutely loved using it. The beauty of usin...
cc: http://chriswallace.net/category/blog/icons/
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Twitter is definitely a teacher’s best friend! The ideas…and CREATIVE ideas at that… that come from one’s Twitter PLN are phenomenal. For example in a recent tweet I saw that Mark Anderson (@ICTevangelist) recommended #FF (which means ‘follow’) @ict_magic and @teachertoolkit. Now I know the wonderful @ict_magic (Martin Burett) virtually and follow him, but didn’t know @Teachertoolkit so I look...
Isn’t it great when right here, in South Africa, you come across a site with lovely, free, downloadable worksheets in : Mathematics, English, Science, Environment, Health, Nutrition, Hygiene, Arts, Crafts and Colouring.
This site is called the e-learning classroom and it can be located at:
http://e-classroom.co.za/
When you explore the site you find so many excellent worksheets and other classroom aids.
Take a look. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!
...
