4Africa Virtual Academy webinar #2: OneNote for Education
Are you and your students using One Note? OneNote is a powerful note-taking tool created by Microsoft. Some say it is one of the best note-taking applications available. OneNote has been around for quite some times as part of the Microsoft Office suite but now Microsoft has made this free digital notebook available separately via Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Chrome. It is such a versatile, useful application that it should be used by everyone!
OneNote looks like a digital notebook with ...Read more
In August we displayed a post about entering for the Microsoft Innovative Educator program for 2015. Click on the image below to be taken to the recording. If you have a collaborative spirit, are resourceful and entrepreneurial, relish the role of being a change agent, and work to achieve excellence in education using advanced technologies and social media – then you may have what it takes to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIE).
Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngobeni presented a webinar toge...
On Thursday afternoon 30th July we held a webinar entitled, ‘How to use Microsoft Sway to profile teaching life’. Our speaker was Phuti Ragophala, Principal of Pula Madibogo Primary in Limpopo.who shared on how she uses Microsoft Sway to profile her teaching life.
The webinar description
In this webinar Phuti showed how to use Sway.com to profile teaching life. She says, “Sway is one of the recent apps by Microsoft which is very user-friendly. I use it to text messages, t...
On Thursday afternoon 25th June we held a webinar entitled, ‘Alice – how you can use it in the classroom’. Our speaker was Claire Dean Head of ICT at Stirling Primary School, East London
Background to the webinar
Claire is an expert on using Alice in the classroom. Alice is a free, innovative 3-D interactive animation environment (suitable for learners who are ten years old o...
On Thursday afternoon 11th June we held a webinar entitled, ‘Microsoft Sway – what it is, how to use it in the classroom, and how to create one’.
Background to the webinar
Sway is a new, free presentation web app – part of the Microsoft Office family of products. It creates lovely eye-catching, attractive, online presentations. It is also available as a iOS app. All you have to do to get started is go to this URL https://sway.com/ and join up by creating a Microsoft ID. Then just explore!...
On Thursday afternoon 4th June (today) we had planned to hold a webinar entitled, “‘How to use Microsoft Sway to teach, share and archive learning activities’ by Phuti Ragophala from Pula Madibogo Primary”. Unfortunately we had to cancel the webinar because Phuti’s school experienced severe connection problems that day and we couldn’t connect Phuti to the webinar.
However we do have the webinar presentation uploaded to Slideshare for you to look at. In this presentation Phuti shows how to u...
On Thursday afternoon 28th May 2015 at 3:15pm we held a fascinating webinar presented by Alan Goldberg of Digicape on the free Adobe Slate available from iTunes.
The Webinar description
Alan Goldberg, our webinar presenter for this week, says: “Named AppStore Editors’ Choice, Slate lets you turn your next report, travel adventure, school project or newsletter into a gorgeous visual story that can will engage readers on any device. Created on an iPad, you select your style – a...
