I absolutely LOVE this feature of Slideshare where you can embed YouTube videos within Slideshare instead of having a string of them on your blog page. Well, today I got rather ambitious and thought I would gather a collection of the Google tutorials I have been learning from recently…12 videos… to see if adding a large amount of videos would work. It seems that it does work. Well, it was a lengthy affair because I first got all the urls incorrect. You have to use the url that shows under the...
Have you ever been in a situation when you are at a friend’s house, you both have your laptops and you both want to share large documents that are too big for email with one another QUICKLY. Your dropbox is full and you don’t have a flashdrive with you! So what do you do? One of the quickest solutions is to try file-sharing with Skype. I discovered this recently when I was in just that predicament. File-sharing with Skype is so quick and easy that I am DEFINITELY going to make a lot more use...
There are times when I need to send out the same emails to a whole lot of people, and after trying one method after another I decided it was time to teach myself Mail Merge. I took screenshots of my journey which I will now share with you in case you want to do something similar. What a timesaver it has proved to be! Now why didn’t I think of this a whole lot earlier!
Create emails using mail merge
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I have found that sometimes a YouTube video spreads over to the side bar in a blog, so if you occasionally have that problem and don’t know what to do about it, please read on. I am going to explain how to change the width of the video so that it fits in to the body of the blog.
1. Open up the YouTube video that you wish to embed, and click on ‘Share‘ and then ‘Embed‘
2. Copy the embed code but when you have put it into your blog post (in the HTML part), change the ...
What is Wallwisher?
Wallwisher is an online notice board that is incredibly easy to use and also incredibly useful as a classroom tool! Better still – it is an online collaboration tool to share ideas, resources, and thoughts on a particular topic.What I really like about it is that you can embed videos, photos etc. Best of all, your students don’t need an account in order to write on your wall.
How do you get started?
1.First of all go to http://wallwisher.com and sign up on the top right c...
SchoolNet is offering two free online courses this month for South African teachers. Both courses are ‘work-at-your-pace in a support base’ courses and include a weekly optional webinar. The first offer is a four-week Schoolnet blogging course co-ordinated by Fiona Beal.
The second course is a twitter course. This is co-ordinated by Maggie Verster, our social networking guru in South Africa. SchoolNet is partnering with Maggie and is providing the webinar platform for weekly webinars over fo...
Just recently I have started using Office 2010 and I am delighted to find that PowerPoint has a video editing feature. This YouTube video from Office shows how it is done.
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