Webinar recording from 22/05/2013 – Navigating the Partners in Learning Network
The webinar summary
The Partners in Learning Network is a great portal for teachers who are interested in ICT in education who want to find like-minded colleagues, free downloadable tools that they can use to enhance lessons and a place to discuss hot topics. In this webinar you will learn more about how to find free tools, search for learning activities and complete your profile so that other teachers will be able to find you!
Presenter
Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet
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The webinar summary
This webinar supports week four of the Digital Storytelling and the African Storybook Project course. We will be looking at popular creative, free applications especially appealing to students for creating and publishing stories online. We will also look at other ways of publishing digital writing online especially when the writing has been created using a PowerPoint presentation.
Webinar recording
The webinar attempts to pull together the different aspects for this week.&n...
The webinar summary:
This webinar supports our current course on digital storytelling. What is the deal when we post information online? Can anybody use it? This webinar looks at free licensing supplied by Creative Commons and shows how to apply it. It will also show the free licensing we will use for our digital stories.
Webinar recording
It will be useful to listen to the webinar to get the full gist of what is being said about licensing. Thank you to those who attended. I am adding the 6pm webina...
Google hangouts are a free video chat service from Google, connected to Google +, that enables both one-on-one chats and group chats with up to ten people at a time. There are enormous benefits to this for education. This is the webinar recording entitled ‘So, how does a Google hangout work?
Summary of the webinar
Google hangouts are part of Google plus. This video chat feature allows you to invite nine others (total of 10) to video chat, IM chat, watch YouTube videos together, share documents...
Google Chrome is definitely a fascinating and very user-friendly browser. Some of the things I love about using it are:
You can easily create many different profiles for Chrome so that each email address you have uses its own profile.
The URL bar is called an Omnibox because you can search from it just as if you were operating in Google Search.
One can paste all sorts of bookmarklets in the bookmarks bar. i.e. Pin it for Pinterest, ‘Scoop.it’ for Scoop.it etc.
There are so many wonde...
In this webinar we discussed BYOD (Bring your own device) which is a current buzz word. Basically instead of schools going to the expense of buying and maintaining technology devices the students are encouraged to bring their own devices from home – smart phones, laptops or tablets of one sort or another. What is your opinion on this? You would imagine that something like this wouldn’t work because of perhaps teacher skills in managing different devices or students forgetting their devices at home ...
What is a Google hangout?
Google+ is Google’s new social networking tool. I have only just discovered its amazing potential since attending the Google Teacher Academy in New York in October. Google has put a lot of funding into developing Google+ and they are committed to making it work well for education, so it will just get better and better I am sure. Once you have created a circle of friends in Google+ you can choose to hang out with them on Google+. This allows you to video chat, IM chat, ...
Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and
the like are all social networks. They’re designed to let you share up-to-the
second updates,
ideas, thoughts, links and media with your friends and the public. There are a few features which makes Google different from these other networks.
Google
has
integrated Google+ with
its other
services (and continues to do so) e.g.Search, YouTube, Gmail and more. Google+ is already built into services you use
every day.
Google+ uses the concept of circles (...
