SchoolNet Webinar Recording from Tues 15th Oct at 3:30pm ‘Use Padlet and Linoit for collecting student responses’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPA2YCSTyyzrcQWw805KIkEy8Clt_VLxmLvRDnBwwnFjQFJmUe5j7SkKJ0QKvZcqlg6WlKkYsP8h0b3QIGBfoWz_ikU4sabt_CGJ8vHtGpYlIM46opRU_PQF1galv3PunT67tAuXhqXM/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw8VVvVjT9HpQ8daVyo_MImhkHWX-bVpwAygaJEozyyh8X1qdOZsUxjlEKw1Lq977Lhito9k_mqqoFPJVP6TYaiYO8znrjahLlRF8OksmIUAcJP-dkB-Ik59zxsfgLc6TBOxuso9UOuTY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Tuesday afternoon (15th October) at 3.30pm we held a webinar entitled ‘Use Padlet and Linoit for collecting student responses’ presented by Fiona Beal. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.<br /><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Presentation</span></strong><br />Fiona’s presentation is given below via Slideshare and you can download it should you wish to.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/27385276" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/padlet-and-linoit" target="_blank" title="Use Padlet and Linoit to collect student responses ">Use Padlet and Linoit to collect student responses </a></strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Summary of the webinar</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><b>Name</b></u>: Use Padlet and Linoit for collecting student responses</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><strong>Summary</strong></u>: This webinar takes a look at two very useful, free webtools for recording student responses with no sign-in required by the students, namely Padlet and Linoit. The responses appear on the created board like online sticky notes. We will look at ways of using this tool in the classroom.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Webinar recording</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you wish to listen to the presentation the recording link can be found at <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9nfax473z4/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9nfax473z4/</a></span></div><br /></div>

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SchoolNet Webinar on Tuesday 15th October at 3:30pm ‘Use Padlet and Linoit for collecting student responses’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46wPafT6hqERU0YTqaKH_-ShwAAmKp5tFGggEv3F8Nve5N4XTM-PAayApq2Ytz-RvEPPPmU5KnClQs_nNNW4nNSitRiqr2yL3zfxI8hdpFkKTy0H5MVYP9Bj6PUuKSvRWd8oxdSq9flc/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMxqYckBhZc3948me8-dxU9_vDk3_VnWUyFJxcgd2Om9CnLMMop14FTpiIsOX-EklsWb3I3pYtIPXfxaI8ZipKMcLj8ZnUOjQ_U0xC4m0H6R2_Gul0HsR1mB8hueorqIttZht1TRyI4k/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar this week on Tuesday afternoon (15th October) at 3.30pm. Here are the details:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Name</b></u>: Use Padlet and Linoit for collecting student responses<br /><u><strong>Summary</strong></u>: This webinar takes a look at two very useful, free webtools for recording student responses with no sign-in required by the students, namely Padlet and Linoit. The responses appear on the created board like online sticky notes. We will look at ways of using this tool in the classroom.<br /><strong><u>Presenter</u></strong>: Fiona Beal<br /><b><u>Starting Time</u>:</b> Tuesday 15 September 2013: 3:30 PM<br /><u><b>Duration</b></u>:15 – 20 mins<br /><u><b>URL</b></u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/padletandlinoit/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/padletandlinoit/</a><br /><u><b>Access</b></u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room as a guest. Sign in using your name. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please feel free to join us.</span></div>

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SchoolNet webinar recording (12/09/2013) 'Let’s create a Learnist Board' (by Fiona Beal)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbC5q-AbtwoeSTldBEF5qs2O6Nd9nEBVfQXPWIDnka7CTlme3BhnW0SUtT8rn-GuGptiLtWVmZAe5F3vmO1ETpXKadsEN-aLle1R7uUmLKnI6YSjaxpsUY3ogiYX9LFqRD-fgdvGRWWNg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday 12th September we held a SchoolNet webinar presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet entitled ‘<i>Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating on</i>e...’. The webinar took place at 3:30pm. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Presentation</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fiona’s presentation is given below via Slideshare and you can download it if you wish to. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/26223172" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/lets-create-a-learnist-board" target="_blank" title="Let's create a Learnist board">Let's create a Learnist board</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Summary of the webinar</span></strong><br /><u><b>Name</b></u>: Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one...<br /><u><b>Summary</b></u>: With the Internet being so HUGE these days educators have to become master curators of content. A Learnist Board is a really useful way to curate and keep a record of the information that you need. I love using Diigo, Pinterest and Scoopit for curation purposes, but Learnist has its own unique properties that sets it apart as a useful way of collecting the sites you want to keep<strong>.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Webinar recording</span></strong>If you wish to listen to the presentation the recording link can be found at <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9tg7wom9gp/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9tg7wom9gp/</a></span></div></div></div></div>

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SchoolNet Webinar on Thursday 12th at 3:30pm ‘Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one...’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGg1QBSYygGhSnTHlGCxTYEkEJSJCLJa08N_TLBx201KV1aAvn7wHlKc-a1rtAPKMeXxuMlHTHxuJEUsNlVf2hD4zXmiKo6lirFSTfldmmwsogzG4MHHSHbsib6D1drHdWX-UiYv7W-g/s1600-h/webinars1%25255B2%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="webinars1" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYKGaamGjt9tyKGfhCrN6qgtqWnwfZU1teFsyfubjuz7FrWVvv4xj3hD0omrpawbcS0go-aFpNdyh8i0bp2iOg72AhtrFgZ8t3JhwKDU8aj8G6aC5MI03XiW2pg2q5eiyxBFwoh_nxaA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="webinars1" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar on Thursday afternoon at 3.30pm. Here are the details:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Name</b></u>: Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one...<br /><u><b>Summary</b></u>: With the Internet being so HUGE these days educators have to become master curators of content. A Learnist Board is a really useful way to curate and keep a record of the information that you need. I love using Diigo, Pinterest and Scoopit for curation purposes, but Learnist has its own unique properties that sets it apart as a useful way of collecting the sites you want to keep<strong>.<br /><u>Presenter</u></strong>: Fiona Beal<br /><b><u>Starting Time</u>:</b> Thursday 12 September 2013: 3:30 PM<br /><u><b>Duration</b></u>:15 – 20 mins <br /><u><b>URL</b></u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/learnist/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/learnist/</a><br /><u><b>Access</b></u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please feel free to join us. </span></div>

webinars SchoolNet Webinar on Thursday 12th at 3:30pm ‘Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one...’

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Webinar recording: Mindmapping with iPads and other devices (by Carolyn Bruton)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbC5q-AbtwoeSTldBEF5qs2O6Nd9nEBVfQXPWIDnka7CTlme3BhnW0SUtT8rn-GuGptiLtWVmZAe5F3vmO1ETpXKadsEN-aLle1R7uUmLKnI6YSjaxpsUY3ogiYX9LFqRD-fgdvGRWWNg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday we held two SchoolNet webinars presented by Carolyn Bruton, a teacher who is an expert in Mindmapping. The first one took place at 3:30pm and the second one was a repeat that took place at 6:00 pm. Thank you to all who attended the webinars<br /><br /><strong>Presentation</strong>: <br />Carolyn’s presentation is given below – Carolyn has kindly agreed that teachers can download it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><strong>Recording link</strong>:<br />If you wish to listen to the presentation the recording link can be found at  <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9ns17glj1f/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9ns17glj1f/</a></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/25508395" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/mind-mapping-on-your-i-pad-and-other-devices-by-carolyn-bruton" target="_blank" title="Mind mapping on your i pad and other devices by Carolyn Bruton">Mind mapping on your i pad and other devices by Carolyn Bruton</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11" target="_blank">Schoolnet SA </a></strong></div></div></div></div></div>

webinars Webinar recording: Mindmapping with iPads and other devices (by Carolyn Bruton)

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SchoolNet Webinar on Mindmapping - Thursday at 3:30pm and again at 6:00pm. Join us!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img alt="image" border="0" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND-7vR_S5KetCsRuiieJuCP3U3OHj3UNxhloEod3lPFHPju3U1tJVxacSYItDmPFAlMHHTxuD6VDaRJ0prUjpmqbG04eU506o6iXHUyjCydLdCTWaD6v8UZUEcy9PpirzM3U0UCPXeLg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are pleased to announce that we will be holding Carolyn Bruton's webinar on <i>Mindmapping using the Ipad and other devices</i> in two different time slots on Thursday. The first will be at 3:30 pm and the repeat slot will be at 6:00 pm. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Details</b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Name</b></span></u><span style="line-height: 115%;">: <b>Mindmapping using an Pad and other devices</b>: 3:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Summary</b></span></u><span style="line-height: 115%;">: Carolyn says. "We will examine the development and use of mind mapping with toddlers through to senior students using freehand drawing activities and how they are constructed. I will discuss my journey with mind maps in a junior school (Kidspiration & Inspiration) and my search for iPad alternatives at the iStore. We will look at resources, blogs, articles and websites which summarise and compare mind mapping software and will conclude the webinar by considering those which worked best for the presenter and those attending the webinar."<br /><u><b>Presenter</b></u>: Carolyn Bruton</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><b><u>Starting Time</u>:</b> Thursday 22 August: 3:30 PM</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><u><b>Duration</b></u>:30 mins </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><u><b>URL</b></u>:</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mindmapping1/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mindmapping1/</a></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><u><b>Access</b></u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Name</b></span></u><span style="line-height: 18px;">: <b>Mindmapping using an Pad and other devices</b>: 6:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Summary</b></span></u><span style="line-height: 18px;">: Carolyn says. "We will examine the development and use of mind mapping with toddlers through to senior students using freehand drawing activities and how they are constructed. I will discuss my journey with mind maps in a junior school (Kidspiration & Inspiration) and my search for iPad alternatives at the iStore. We will look at resources, blogs, articles and websites which summarise and compare mind mapping software and will conclude the webinar by considering those which worked best for the presenter and those attending the webinar."<br /><u><b>Presenter</b></u>: Carolyn Bruton</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><u><b>Starting Time</b></u>: Thursday 22 August: 6:00 PM</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><u><b>Duration</b></u>:30 mins </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><u><b>URL</b></u>:</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mindmapping2/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mindmapping2/</a>   </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(This is a repeat of the earlier Mindmapping webinar)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><b><u>Access</u>:</b> Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room </span></div></div><table cellpadding="4" class="infoTable" style="background-color: white; padding: 2px 5px;"><tbody></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>More about Carolyn Bruton</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Carolynn Bruton retired from formal teaching in 2011 after teaching IT at Springfield Junior School in Cape Town for 18 years.  Her interest in mind mapping led to her receiving an Inspired Teacher Scholarship in 2006 which included a trip to the USA and Canada. She attended technology events and workshops using hand held devices there. Carolynn now runs her own company IT at Home </span><a href="http://www.itathome.co.za/"><span lang="EN-US">www.itathome.co.za</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> where she teaches adults to use their own laptops, iPads and other devices in a computer room in her <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6067349343549361447" name="_GoBack"></a>home in Rondebosch.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></div>

webinars SchoolNet Webinar on Mindmapping - Thursday at 3:30pm and again at 6:00pm. Join us!

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SchoolNet webinar today POSTPONED 'Mindmapping using iPads and other devices' (Carolyn Bruton)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND-7vR_S5KetCsRuiieJuCP3U3OHj3UNxhloEod3lPFHPju3U1tJVxacSYItDmPFAlMHHTxuD6VDaRJ0prUjpmqbG04eU506o6iXHUyjCydLdCTWaD6v8UZUEcy9PpirzM3U0UCPXeLg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately the webinar scheduled for today, Thursday 1st August at 3:30pm, on <i>Mindmapping using the iPad and other devices</i> has been postponed till further notice. Our speaker Carolyn Bruton had an accident with her laptop yesterday whereby the screen shattered and it has to be sent in for repair. We will let you know in due course when this webinar will take place. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Details</b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Name</b></span></u><span style="line-height: 115%;">: Mindmapping using an Pad and other devices<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Summary</b></span></u><span style="line-height: 115%;">: Carolyn says. "We will examine the development and use of mind mapping with toddlers through to senior students using freehand drawing activities and how they are constructed. I will discuss my journey with mind maps in a junior school (Kidspiration & Inspiration) and my search for iPad alternatives at the iStore. We will look at resources, blogs, articles and websites which summarise and compare mind mapping software and will conclude the webinar by considering those which worked best for the presenter and those attending the webinar."<br /><u><b>Presenter</b></u>: Carolyn Bruton</span></span></div><table cellpadding="4" class="infoTable" style="background-color: white; padding: 2px 5px;"><tbody></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>More about Carolyn</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Carolynn Bruton retired from formal teaching in 2011 after teaching IT at Springfield Junior School in Cape Town for 18 years.  Her interest in mind mapping led to her receiving an Inspired Teacher Scholarship in 2006 which included a trip to the USA and Canada. She attended technology events and workshops using hand held devices there. Carolynn now runs her own company IT at Home </span><a href="http://www.itathome.co.za/"><span lang="EN-US">www.itathome.co.za</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> where she teaches adults to use their own laptops, iPads and other devices in a computer room in her <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6067349343549361447" name="_GoBack"></a>home in Rondebosch.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>

webinars SchoolNet webinar today POSTPONED 'Mindmapping using iPads and other devices' (Carolyn Bruton)

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Webinar recording ‘Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils (24/07/2013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbC5q-AbtwoeSTldBEF5qs2O6Nd9nEBVfQXPWIDnka7CTlme3BhnW0SUtT8rn-GuGptiLtWVmZAe5F3vmO1ETpXKadsEN-aLle1R7uUmLKnI6YSjaxpsUY3ogiYX9LFqRD-fgdvGRWWNg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Wednesday we were very fortunate to have a guest presenter from Belgium, Bram Faems speaking on our SchoolNet/Microsoft  webinar on ‘</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changing seats: Quiz creation using Power`point and game coding using Kodu’.  </i></div></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEJV3LsQo5GC2eLhgZaMeOB5x80e0YZVTNeCt2N-NLmdpDyGyYbNgjlVJcZqFTCL5v6OQHxFtDPMI0hdsqEpOjiRJ3DfmDWhPDZIrEYiEjDheKkfYPJ4maLcJ3rZXvxLOg_jEpUpAsXI/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_KeQ7FXEPRZTXFw6n6uReWeHc4Aqv3V_mSLGclXy6i0NwW2DUWfnxT8Q1InjL263vhE3D_h0ybHunQyv31friJrVc3f17Dvye_UWPh5vXo1pzjIHwq9_88hw1qlqNrEXNRxcf8MsUaU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils</b> (Bram Faems)<br /><u>Summary</u>: Variation in teaching methods keeps students "awake" and concentrated. Playing games and quizzes can be a nice variation on the traditional lessons for your pupils  But what about taking it a step further? Why can't students create a quiz about a lesson subject or even code a game? In this webinar you'll hear Bram Faems talk about creating quizzes in PowerPoint and how to playfully teach young students the basics of coding with Kodu Game Lab. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Bram Faems, Microsoft Teacher Trainer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Webinar recording</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recording of the webinar can be found at this link: </span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3kprfi6rjf/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3kprfi6rjf/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Webinar presentation</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram has kindly allowed the presentation he used to be embedded on this blog and in this post. Here it is:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OmqWy8f6x4gyX_Pdio2y7OrSTv9Y4UKgoVxxF04MarM/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="420"></iframe></div>

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Webinar recording ‘Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils (24/07/2013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbC5q-AbtwoeSTldBEF5qs2O6Nd9nEBVfQXPWIDnka7CTlme3BhnW0SUtT8rn-GuGptiLtWVmZAe5F3vmO1ETpXKadsEN-aLle1R7uUmLKnI6YSjaxpsUY3ogiYX9LFqRD-fgdvGRWWNg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Wednesday we were very fortunate to have a guest presenter from Belgium, Bram Faems speaking on our SchoolNet/Microsoft  webinar on ‘</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changing seats: Quiz creation using Power`point and game coding using Kodu’.  </i></div></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEJV3LsQo5GC2eLhgZaMeOB5x80e0YZVTNeCt2N-NLmdpDyGyYbNgjlVJcZqFTCL5v6OQHxFtDPMI0hdsqEpOjiRJ3DfmDWhPDZIrEYiEjDheKkfYPJ4maLcJ3rZXvxLOg_jEpUpAsXI/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_KeQ7FXEPRZTXFw6n6uReWeHc4Aqv3V_mSLGclXy6i0NwW2DUWfnxT8Q1InjL263vhE3D_h0ybHunQyv31friJrVc3f17Dvye_UWPh5vXo1pzjIHwq9_88hw1qlqNrEXNRxcf8MsUaU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils</b> (Bram Faems)<br /><u>Summary</u>: Variation in teaching methods keeps students "awake" and concentrated. Playing games and quizzes can be a nice variation on the traditional lessons for your pupils  But what about taking it a step further? Why can't students create a quiz about a lesson subject or even code a game? In this webinar you'll hear Bram Faems talk about creating quizzes in PowerPoint and how to playfully teach young students the basics of coding with Kodu Game Lab. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Bram Faems, Microsoft Teacher Trainer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Webinar recording</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recording of the webinar can be found at this link: </span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3kprfi6rjf/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3kprfi6rjf/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Webinar presentation</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram has kindly allowed the presentation he used to be embedded on this blog and in this post. Here it is:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OmqWy8f6x4gyX_Pdio2y7OrSTv9Y4UKgoVxxF04MarM/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="420"></iframe></div>

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Join our SchoolNet webinar on Weds 3.30 on quiz creation in PowerPoint and simple game coding in Kodu - Bram Faems.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Wednesday of this week we are privileged to have Bram Faems, the teacher who was the European winner of the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition in 2012 presenting for us. Bram is from Brussels in Belgium.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEJV3LsQo5GC2eLhgZaMeOB5x80e0YZVTNeCt2N-NLmdpDyGyYbNgjlVJcZqFTCL5v6OQHxFtDPMI0hdsqEpOjiRJ3DfmDWhPDZIrEYiEjDheKkfYPJ4maLcJ3rZXvxLOg_jEpUpAsXI/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_KeQ7FXEPRZTXFw6n6uReWeHc4Aqv3V_mSLGclXy6i0NwW2DUWfnxT8Q1InjL263vhE3D_h0ybHunQyv31friJrVc3f17Dvye_UWPh5vXo1pzjIHwq9_88hw1qlqNrEXNRxcf8MsUaU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>2) </strong><b>Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils</b> <strong> (Bram Faems)</strong><br /><u>Summary</u>: Variation in teaching methods keeps students "awake" and concentrated. Playing games and quizzes can be a nice variation on the traditional lessons for your pupils  But what about taking it a step further? Why can't students create a quiz about a lesson subject or even code a game? In this webinar you'll hear Bram Faems talk about creating quizzes in PowerPoint and how to playfully teach young students the basics of coding with Kodu Game Lab. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Bram Faems, Microsoft Teacher Trainer<br /><u>Start Time:</u> 3:30pm on Wednesday 24th July 2013<br /><u>Duration</u>: 30 mins<br /><u>URL</u>:<a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming3/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming3/</a><br /><u>Access:</u> Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>About Bram Faems</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram Faems looks back on a very diverse carrier as teacher, ICT Coordinator and deputy school leader in Jonatan Berkenboom. This school for special needs education for children with learning difficulties has a long standing reputation in helping these children by using technology.  At the school he started the Jonatan Academy Project 2011. This project takes a different approach to e-learning. For children both watching online educational movies and creating them is part of the learning process.  For his work on this project he was awarded by the <b>Queen Paola Foundation for Education</b> award and he also won the award for <b>Teacher as Innovator and Change Agent at the European Microsoft Partners in Learning forum</b>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram Faems got the opportunity to broaden his horizons thanks to the internationally acclaimed teachers’ portal<b> </b><a href="http://www.klascement.net/?set_language=4"><b>KlasCement</b></a><b>.</b> There he moderates the teaching materials that teachers submit and he coordinates several projects. He leads the Media Literacy project. He tries to engage and inspire teachers to use, think critically about and create (digital) media in their classrooms. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On his blog, <a href="http://www.leesvoer.be/en/">http://www.leesvoer.be/en/</a>  Bram writes about his passion to blend emerging technologies with education. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram has also been featured in Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a Global Education Hero – <a href="http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/07/02/bram-faems/">http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/07/02/bram-faems/</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh620osTww2mcz9pRXU7m2TJe76EWI2m26BTf9_WE6Z2FbW2ldgCJ1LxtMHgmQ0IxxAyCeDowDHQt7eQ7gyHOnnPhe7mJ8JLpID9ZoGrGQWuiRNMdCexzcWLqwuc3whYkitLBAvGCZ8Rdg/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6QBi3W5BqtcifMKb_byI3BfK47YWWiLrnGYgJYE9J4Q9EYz7Gc0w_w9xSHmagZs7t22Ch4wJ5X2Vyy8La9puQrhauCRC88HhT-EY3OVvMULWGynhIKngfiuhWW6U2og-1PWKUwuY7WY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div></div>

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Webinar recording ‘Spice up your classroom with Games’ (17/07/2013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbC5q-AbtwoeSTldBEF5qs2O6Nd9nEBVfQXPWIDnka7CTlme3BhnW0SUtT8rn-GuGptiLtWVmZAe5F3vmO1ETpXKadsEN-aLle1R7uUmLKnI6YSjaxpsUY3ogiYX9LFqRD-fgdvGRWWNg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday we were very fortunate to have a wonderful guest presenter, Arjana Blazik from Croatia speaking on our SchoolNet/Microsoft  webinar on ‘<i>Spice up your classroom with games’.   </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkx_UzWXAFo8Nw0OrXY9lGrDMpUpNiECFwJpdksud5Ft3xtY6-54VVd7xrKR7LsWoGS_XfaNTKLcwACLRf3MuRCybUcQ2oCIUaJbyOjE-9wV7YUd5kdEDQhB6oT78OQ0TRYkAs_qTnKY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arjana is well-known in many different international circles. I met her at the world finals on the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition in Cape Town in 2010 where she represented Croatia with her winning project entitled Greetings from the World. After that I met Arjana again at the inaugural Partners in Learning Institute in Seattle in July 2011. Since then Arjana along with Bart Versvijel from Belgium have been involved in running four online <a href="http://teachmeetinternational.org/">Internationl Teachmeets</a> as well as a number of online activities for the European SchoolNet’s e-twinning project. You can read Arjana’s blog at<a href="http://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/">h ttp://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/</a> Arjana has been featured on Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a global Education Hero – read about her here:<a href="http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/06/28/arjana-blazic/">ttp://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/06/28/arjana-blazic/</a>. Arjana has a great interest in games in education and was privileged to attend a European workshop run by Ollie Bray from Scotland (who is known as THE games in education person).  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The presentation, website links and the recording link</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the presentation link:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lexSwAsN4BlOKy0_0qSxoySSm637AQ3BMpSM9sHi_gE/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the link to the various sites that Arjana referred to:<br /><a href="http://instablogg.com/joj1DOv" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://instablogg.com/joj1DOv</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the recording link from Adobe Connect: (33 mins)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3wrmova9gu/" style="background-color: white;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3wrmova9gu/</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(sound problem in one or two places)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

webinars Webinar recording ‘Spice up your classroom with Games’ (17/07/2013)

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Two international speakers on our next two Microsoft webinars on using Games in Education

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have two SchoolNet webinars coming up on the topic of Gaming in the classroom’. We are very pleased to announce that we have two distinguished overseas presenters for these webinars, Arjana Blazik from Croatia for the first one and Bram Faens from Belgium for the second one.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arjana Blazik from Croatia</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6EJlybMU9Il6wFk1fDDa20uAE8av18G5WMSDxorYLYgjBZWy7Rsrhmi1Vt527BOwbh4ezl3VDzfer42un20yKXSFxXdfFq5vH1XOQPTPSP9VQuDb8wa2VgPXUl43Vr4-feE8W_61ceY/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Z517xltpC-BkedapD2GFwbifk9BnIcZLA9xhJDXYcpDTU20Q7t-TJjm3BK1-RXA3Ee0iYM_FQsMwethg-rcjHPlHqZrHeH0oikJJLajZK4RvRNYorlIYKLoXVkdReH65ERDrqsT8Kw0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="381" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arjana is well-known in many different international circles. I met her at the world finals on the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition in Cape Town in 2010 where she represented Croatia with her winning project entitled Greetings from the World. After that I met Arjana again at the inaugural Partners in Learning Institute in Seattle in July 2011. Since then Arjana along with Bart Versvijel from Belgium have been involved in running four online <a href="http://teachmeetinternational.org/">Internationl Teachmeets</a> as well as a number of online activities for the European SchoolNet’s e-twinning project. You can read Arjana’s blog at <a href="http://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/">http://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/</a> Arjana has been featured on Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a global Education Hero – read about her here: <a href="http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/06/28/arjana-blazic/">ttp://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/06/28/arjana-blazic/</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arjana has a great interest in games in education and was privileged to attend a European workshop run by Ollie Bray from Scotland (who is known as THE games in education person).    </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bram Faems from Belgium</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8Rko5hz3S8JNUdlPaqiPIHeXNC8rx0lpyHwblwQg7DBjhyphenhyphenhTBf6kZYsqeCMfvqBQ-igaKTbObgvRBUjDbEDGvFuhnTV_37WaFXzJDHVFcqOSqY3PYcxX8U4ED6O794zjjsdOGO852T0/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlxmFi4VCrMS2e7wiAFFPejK6ti5Rbk-Nqc_hc6icfeDdZtv-hG1dYZMI_EPR58UYDyoHZPqXPg-XU-7WGm9cSvmyRqMQm2EVguMNZ0N6NzZsqve6ZLpipZnuug67BdNkchC8DS-Cuys/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="378" /></a><u></u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram Faems from Belgium is another educator who is well-known in International circles. I first met Bram at the Partners in Learning Institute in Seattle in 2010. Last year Bram was first the begium winner and thereafter the European winner of the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition, and he represented Europe in Prage in November 2013 with his project that involved Stop Motion movie making with his class. You can read about Bram in his blog <a href="http://www.leesvoer.be/">http://www.leesvoer.be</a>. Bram has been featured on Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a global Education Hero – <a href="http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/07/02/bram-faems/">http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/07/02/bram-faems/</a>. He has also been honoured by the Queen in belgium for his innovative teaching. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bram is a keen user of games in Education. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Details of these two upcoming webinars</span></strong> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>1) Spice up your classroom with games (Arjana Blazik)</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Summary</u>:In this webinar we introduce educational games as a means to engage learners and to create an inspiring learning environment. You'll be shown how to integrate playful learning in your classroom and how to motivate students to create their own games. Not only that, but we also want to encourage you to become a game designer and create engaging games which will help your students develop their 21st century skills.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Presenter</u>: Arjana Blazik from Croatia</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Starting Time</u>: Wednesday 17th July 2013: 3:30 PM</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Duration</u>:30 mins </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>URL</u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming2/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming2/</a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Access</u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>2) </strong></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> (Bram Faems)</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Summary</u>: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">Variation in teaching methods keeps students "awake" and concentrated. Playing games and quizzes can be a nice variation on the traditional lessons </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">for your pupils</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">  But what about taking it a step further? Why can't students create a quiz about a lesson subject or even code a game? In this webinar you'll hear Bram Faems talk about creating quizzes in PowerPoint and how to playfully teach young children the basics of coding with Kodu Game Lab  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Presenter:</u> Bram Faems, Microsoft Teacher Trainer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Start Time:</u> 3:30pm on Wednesday 24th July 2013</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Duration</u>: 30 mins</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>URL</u>:<a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming3/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming3/</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Access:</u> Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><br /></div>

webinars Two international speakers on our next two Microsoft webinars on using Games in Education

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Webinar recording: Inspiring gaming projects created by teachers (20/06/2013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLWxcsulgM2Ldmb7-RMDfU5vEbZY6PsaahDyahyphenhyphenBFrnRMcU5fE4UTGRWPqgUw8rVUC2rE_FGFxAVX6Om8eyfGpMSsh6V8HGF7VwOqz4mi7dxDNBi7Tlo0aF27V5wfZ4rSBYUiKlgOxdA/s1600-h/webinar%252520recording%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="webinar recording" border="0" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAmJxy4IHXdtx-p6XQsRF2puxV89MZAN3Dx1q1w6z267ghOZt-Xp0WaGXPiXZlI-tzBRvjI4Sd05sncCOzqhaBgM_TfIXlWcq9Xis0JvhAoj3DCaVIndG-oRKbAwgkgq7c_MPMQjFXBs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="webinar recording" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are running a three part series on the popular topic of Educational Gaming.  Today we look at some of the inspiring ways that teachers use Gaming in Education.<br /><u>Name</u>: Inspiring Educational Gaming projects<br /><u>Summary</u>: In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers in South Africa and further afield.<br /><u>Presenter:</u> Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet<br /><u>Recording url: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p4maekzsobv/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p4maekzsobv/</span></span></a></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a Slideshare of the PowerPoint used in this presentation (still to be added)</span></div>

webinars Webinar recording: Inspiring gaming projects created by teachers (20/06/2013)

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Webinar recording: Even MORE uses of PowerPoint (19/06/2013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsT2xAHj1dLU88mkYRubrXPYoVeFEQx-9ktjDtOtgEd6-yMrh6va60kSI72rb2Vcth3T-lPJrWOQIIfv-EJK4cSptqKqGvE4iGYfUp6eT9p75Xppc-uRh8FWirTJ1iUzMsOWW-NdFKuiE/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq35imjZOvr3gcvTAhXbNTxsTb_ufyMFN9yxw-asDFLyoKmbwZjSEOfvj4r4nSZlomHvmtbN99xcZof1dcTlrsTmkndJbU7WSvUOMZjuNPGfcJDjpmOgAxPSCq1l6ZSHzsXFUDWso-1gE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week our webinar was entitled ‘Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?’ where we looked at 10 uses of PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation. This week we look at Part 2 of the series entitled ‘Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint’. Do we realise the potential that lies within this Microsoft product? You’ll be astounded to see how many more uses there are for PowerPoint and that it could be one of the most powerful and diverse applications you use.<br /><u>Name</u>:Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint<br /><u>Summary</u>: This is part two in the series about Microsoft's PowerPoint showing even more uses than we looked at last week. You will discover that PowerPoint is both powerful and diverse in the ways that it can be used.<br /><u>Presenter:</u> Fiona Beal from SchoolNet<br /><u>Recording URL:</u>  <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p49j0dtg4lg/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p49j0dtg4lg/</span></span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a SlideShare of the presentation used in the webinar for a quick summary</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even more uses of PowerPoint</span><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/24150173" width="476"></iframe></div>

Microsoft webinars Webinar recording: Even MORE uses of PowerPoint (19/06/2013)

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Tune into our SchoolNet webinars this week “Even MORE uses of Powerpoint’ and ‘Inspiring Educational Gaming projects’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND-7vR_S5KetCsRuiieJuCP3U3OHj3UNxhloEod3lPFHPju3U1tJVxacSYItDmPFAlMHHTxuD6VDaRJ0prUjpmqbG04eU506o6iXHUyjCydLdCTWaD6v8UZUEcy9PpirzM3U0UCPXeLg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We invite you to two useful short webinars this week. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(1) Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week our webinar was entitled ‘Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?’ where we looked at 10 uses of PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation. The recording and Slideshare have been posted on this blog. This week we look at Part 2 of the series entitled ‘Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint’. Do we realise the potential that lies within this Microsoft product? You’ll be astounded to see how many more uses there are for PowerPoint and that it could be one of the most powerful and diverse applications you use. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name</u>:Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint<br /><u>Summary</u>: This is part two in the series about Microsoft's PowerPoint showing even more uses than we looked at last week. You will discover that PowerPoint is both powerful and diverse in the ways that it can be used. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Fiona Beal from SchoolNet<br /><u>Start Time</u>: Wednesday June 19th at 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 - 30 minutes<br /><u>URL</u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint2/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint2/</a><br /><u>Access</u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(2) Inspiring Educational Gaming projects created by teachers</span></strong> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be running a three part series on the popular topic of Educational Gaming.  Today we look at some of the inspiring ways that teachers use Gaming in Education. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name</u>: Inspiring Educational Gaming projects<br /><u>Summary</u>: In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers in South Africa and further afield. <br /><u>Presenter:</u> Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet<br /><u>Start Time</u>: Thursday June 20th at 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 - 30 minutes<br /><u>URL</u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gamification1/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gamification1/</a></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be great if you can attend either or both of these webinars. If it is your first time in attending an Adobe Connect webinar you might be prompted to install an add-in. If so, just follow the prompts. See you in the cloud maybe! </span><br /><br /></div></div>

webinars Tune into our SchoolNet webinars this week “Even MORE uses of Powerpoint’ and ‘Inspiring Educational Gaming projects’

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Webinar recording from 12 June 2013 'Did you know that PowerPoint can do all this?'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8VZF0t_z8Wpyj1YUcNRM1K5eokX-l3Qdre75AvUrrfozzpbSP9kF3ZcLHXIWWzu-kErcSoUBRlC35c4_awPvZNOEcV4Hf-CzUcpriCI-1-_uhaY8FwON9Y0LSbZqt1Og1hGLrSgu4Vs/s1600/flamingtext_22973154611741195.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8VZF0t_z8Wpyj1YUcNRM1K5eokX-l3Qdre75AvUrrfozzpbSP9kF3ZcLHXIWWzu-kErcSoUBRlC35c4_awPvZNOEcV4Hf-CzUcpriCI-1-_uhaY8FwON9Y0LSbZqt1Og1hGLrSgu4Vs/s400/flamingtext_22973154611741195.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday Our SchoolNet webinar was entitled 'Did you know that PowerPoint can do all this?'  (presenter Fiona Beal)  Our webinar quota was reached and consequently Adobe Connect excluded several people from participating in the webinar. We apologise for this and we are adding the presentation plus the recording to this post. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The webinar summary</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">This webinar was the first in a two part series about Microsoft's PowerPoint. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Often one hears the words 'Death by PowerPoint' but in fact this programme has a HUGE variety of wonderful uses that you may not know about. There are many exciting ways to conduct presentations - Keynote and Prezi just to name two.  </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In this first webinar we introduced some of the amazing things that can be done with PowerPoint other than just being used for presentations.  A subtitle for this webinar could be '<i>Ten things that you can do using PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation</i>'. But these amazing uses won't be all - next week we'll continue with more PowerPoint features that you might not know about. Join us!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Webinar recording </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(20 mins)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to those who attended or wanted to attend. Here is the link to the recording. </span><br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p5ae57e6jn7/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p5ae57e6jn7/</span></a><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The presentation used for the webinar</span></strong><br /><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/22876939" style="border-width: 1px 1px 0; border: 1px solid #CCC; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/did-you-know-powerpoint-could-do-all-this" target="_blank" title="Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?">Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </div></div>

webinars Webinar recording from 12 June 2013 'Did you know that PowerPoint can do all this?'

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Tune into our webinar today Weds 12th–‘Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KBtL8UeYG7C-DEt4JXo88t3MDw-wQXZOoaWjugvs3pfwr8gN807BjulmaUSHYFZxmXMcnsHWUkSW2tFQRY3m697hy4oIRJdsKFe6FIO86p5YewW_q3b-3ESWOPhKjAblKqWuGNjYSDE/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPjsfq9NsW71KCEB0sMITXzYAbV7TvXEBTcfz8tozNk76sGKrH9hEi8IwQrIhTPxeVUZT8Zd-bhq0ZG9mvc14X6grcR9WGJHzGzvYJsJimkBQbqxrVri7G-DTPS_X-SEcSy76sPVkNWs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Logo Design by <a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/">FlamingText.com</a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We invite you to join our short webinar on Wednesday 12th June (TODAY) 3:30pm.   </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Background to this week's webinar</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have two short webinars about Microsoft's PowerPoint coming up in the next two weeks. Have you discovered all that PowerPoint can do?   Often one hears the words 'Death by PowerPoint' but in fact this programme has a HUGE variety of wonderful uses that you may not know about.  These two webinars will outline these uses. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week’s webinar</span></strong><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name</u>:Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?<br /><u>Summary</u>: This is a two part series about Microsoft's PowerPoint. In this first webinar we introduce you to some of the amazing things that can be done with PowerPoint. A subtitle for this webinar could be 'Ten things that you can do using PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation'. You will be shown each of these in detail. But these amazing uses won't be all - next week we'll continue with more PowerPoint features that you might not know about. Join us!<br /><u>Presenter:</u> Fiona Beal from SchoolNet<br /><u>Start Time</u>: Wednesday June 12th at 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 - 30 minutes<br /><u>URL</u>: <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint1/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint1/</a><br /><u>Access</u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be great if you can attend this webinar. If it is your first time in attending an Adobe Connect webinar you might be prompted to install an add-in. If so, just follow the prompts. See you in the cloud maybe! (The recording will be posted on the blog afterwards). </span><br /></div>

webinars Tune into our webinar today Weds 12th–‘Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?’

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Webinar recording from 22/05/2013 - Navigating the Partners in Learning Network

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8VZF0t_z8Wpyj1YUcNRM1K5eokX-l3Qdre75AvUrrfozzpbSP9kF3ZcLHXIWWzu-kErcSoUBRlC35c4_awPvZNOEcV4Hf-CzUcpriCI-1-_uhaY8FwON9Y0LSbZqt1Og1hGLrSgu4Vs/s1600/flamingtext_22973154611741195.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8VZF0t_z8Wpyj1YUcNRM1K5eokX-l3Qdre75AvUrrfozzpbSP9kF3ZcLHXIWWzu-kErcSoUBRlC35c4_awPvZNOEcV4Hf-CzUcpriCI-1-_uhaY8FwON9Y0LSbZqt1Og1hGLrSgu4Vs/s400/flamingtext_22973154611741195.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The webinar summary</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Presenter</strong> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet</span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Webinar recording</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to those who attended. Here is the link to the recording. </span><br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3txiivl4d0/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3txiivl4d0/</a><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The presentation used for the webinar</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the presentation that was used in the webinar. It can be easily downloaded from Slideshare.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/21756946" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/navigating-the-partners-in-learning-network" target="_blank" title="Navigating the Partners in Learning Network">Navigating the Partners in Learning Network</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11" target="_blank">Schoolnet SA </a></strong></span></div></div>

webinars 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 ...

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Why not tune into our two Microsoft Partners in Learning short webinars on Weds 22nd and Weds 29th May

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_top"><img alt="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" border="0" height="108" src="http://blog.flamingtext.com/blog/2013/05/21/flamingtext_com_1369125720_690838027.png" title="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Logo Design by <a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/">FlamingText.com</a></span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We invite you to join two Microsoft Partners in Learning webinars to be held on the next two Wednesday afternoons. These will be of special interest to those who are entering Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition in South Africa where the first closing date is 3 June if you would like to be chosen as one of the 15 finalists who will be completely sponsored to the SchoolNet Conference in Bloemfontein in July 2013. (The final closing date for the Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition is on 30 September). Find out more <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/04/entries-for-microsofts-partners-in.html">here</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Navigating the Partners in Learning Network</span></strong></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Name:</u> Navigating the Partners in Learning Network<br /><u>Summary</u>: 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!<br /><u>Presenter</u>: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet <br /><u>Start Time</u>: 05/22/2013 3:30 PM<br /><u>Duration</u>: 15 – 30 mins<br /><u>URL</u>:<a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/piln1/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/piln1/</a><br /><u>Access</u>: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u><br /></u></strong></span><strong><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sharing a Learning Activity on the Partners in Learning Network</span></u></strong> <br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Sharing a Learning Activity on the PIL-Network</span><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Are you using technology in a creative and engaging way to enhance a lesson? Have you developed a project that makes use of technology to build knowledge or solve a real world problem? If so - share your learning activity on the Partners in Learning Network and you could win a trip to the Global Partners in Learning Forum. In this webinar you will learn about the requirements for the competiton and tips for developing an impressive learning activity.</span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presenter</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet </span><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start Time: </u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">05/29/2013 3:30 PM</span><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duration: </u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">00:15</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">URL:</span><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/r1do1h6omuo/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/r1do1h6omuo/</a><br /><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you there!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

webinars Why not tune into our two Microsoft Partners in Learning short webinars on Weds 22nd and Weds 29th May

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Webinar recording: How to create and publish digital media online (09/05/2013)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuLWEHBr_Q9jz4G6ohe6ekm6lTszxtSUeC3g6D5Ubg2kI63ftZQYRc_raZRF_f8EV3AFo0DNh-6vBvabEaBYhc89ciYY6SzJMx9H-yo2qZit-tCI6Co789VJWC0wi6fIMZ970IfgruG0/s1600/webinar+recording.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuLWEHBr_Q9jz4G6ohe6ekm6lTszxtSUeC3g6D5Ubg2kI63ftZQYRc_raZRF_f8EV3AFo0DNh-6vBvabEaBYhc89ciYY6SzJMx9H-yo2qZit-tCI6Co789VJWC0wi6fIMZ970IfgruG0/s320/webinar+recording.JPG" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The webinar summary</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">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. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Webinar recording</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The webinar attempts to pull together the different aspects for this week.  Thank you to those who attended. </span><br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p7zimfhxk2w/" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p7zimfhxk2w/</span></a><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The presentation used for the webinar</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">I have put the presentation used in the webinar into Slideshare and here it is:</span></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/20923858" style="border-width: 1px 1px 0; border: 1px solid #CCC; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/how-to-publish-digital-media-online" target="_blank" title="How to publish digital media online">How to publish digital media online</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </div></div></div>

webinars Webinar recording: How to create and publish digital media online (09/05/2013)

The webinar summary This webinar supports week four of the Digital Storytelling and the African Storybook Project course. We will be looking...

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