Wednesday 21 November 2012

Webinar reminder for tonight


A snippet from one of Michelle's popplets

Our guest webinar tonight features Michelle Botha from Somerset House Primary School in Somerset West. She has made good use of an amazing classroom tool called  'Popplet' in her classroom experience and you don't want to miss what she has to share!

Please join us in an Adobe Connect Meeting:
Meeting Name:  The Power of Popplet
Summary: This webinar features the lovely mindmapping/sticky-note/collaboration application
Popplet (http://popplet.com/) with which you can do much.
Presenter: Michelle Botha from Somerset House in Somerset West.
Invited By: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When:  Thursday 22 November 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM (15 mins)
Time Zone:  (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
URL: 
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/popplet/

The recordings will be placed on the blog the day after the webinar. 

Our Google+ webinar recording



This webinar took place on Tuesday 20 November as advertised in the previous post. Here s the recording.
Webinar presentation
This is a Slideshare on Google +. It covers:
What is Google +
•Highlights of interesting features
•Circles
•How to write a post
•How to receive a notification
Benefits to education 

'Google Hangouts' will receive a post of its own later. 


Get to know Google plus! from Fiona Beal

Webinar recording
The above Slideshare was presented as part of the webinar on Google+. If you would like to know what was said, here is the webinar recording: Get to know Google+

Tuesday 20 November 2012

SchoolNet webinars this week



These are our SchoolNet webinars for this week - both short and sweet! Do join us if you can.


(1) Please join us in an Adobe Connect Meeting.
Meeting Name:  Get to know Google +
Summary: This webinar introduces you to Google+ and how to use it.
Presenter: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When:  Tuesday 20 November 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM (15 mins)
Time Zone:  (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
URLhttp://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/googleplus/

(2) Please join us in an Adobe Connect Meeting.
Meeting Name:  Popplet in the classroom
Summary: This webinar features the lovely mindmapping/sticky-note/collaboration application
Popplet (http://popplet.com/) with which you can do much.
Presenter: Michelle Botha from Somerset House in Somerset West.
Invited By: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When:  Thursday 22 November 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM (15 mins)
Time Zone:  (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
URL: 
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/popplet/

The recordings will be placed on the blog the day after the webinar. 

Thursday 15 November 2012

SchoolNet's November webinar programme for November

SchoolNet's webinar programme for November started this week. Please join us if you can.  All you have to do on the night of the webinar is click on the link to be taken to Adobe Connect, our hosting platform. From there you may be prompted to check that your computer has the installed the necessary add-in. Thereafter sign in as a guest with your name.
The proposed programme for the rest of the month (subject to change) is:

1. Tuesday November 13th from 6:00 - 6:15pm
Google Chrome Tips and Tricks (Fiona Beal) completed


2. Thursday November 15th from 6:00 - 6:15pm
Use Google Docs to create beautiful collaborative newsletters (Brenda Hallowes-Cotsworld Prep)

3.Tuesday November 20th from 6:00 - 6:15pm      
Get to know Google+ (Fiona Beal) 


4.Thursday November 22nd from 6:00 - 6:15pm      
Using Popplet in the classroom (Michelle Botha - Somerset House) 
  

5.Tuesday November 27th from 6:00 - 6:30pm
a) To BYOD'ly go .... (Nina Adams - St Cyprians)
b) Our BYOD pilot in Grades 6 and 7 (Michelle Botha - Somerset House)


6.Thursday November 29th from 6:00 - 6:15pm  (Fiona Beal)
Get the hang of Google hangouts


We do hope you can join us on these occasions. 

Wednesday 14 November 2012

Webinar recording - the Amazing Google Chrome


Thank you very much to all who attended the webinar last night entitled 'The AMAZING Google Chrome'. I hope you were inspired to try more of what this browser offers.

Recording

If you missed the webinar (18 minutes) and would like to list to what was said, here is the recording link: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p29kfsqcsu3/

The presentation on SlideShare

If you would like access to the presentation used in the webinar it can be downloaded from Slideshare as a PDF. Here is the link:



Webinars - on 13th and 15th November 2012




There are two webinars this week:

1) The Amazing Google Chrome


Meeting Name
:  The AMAZING Google Chrome
Summary: This webinar sets out to show what one can do with Google Chrome! It is an extraordinary browser with all sorts of tips and tricks you might not know about to make browsing a breeze!
When: Tuesday 11/13/2012 at 6:00 PM
Duration
: 15 minutes
Presenter: Fiona Beal
To join the meetinghttp://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/chrome/

2) A classroom newspaper in Google Docs for Foundation Phase


Meeting Name:  Create a classroom newspaper using Google Docs
Presenter: Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth in South Africa
Summary: This is a webinar from Brenda Hallowes showing how she uses Google Docs to create a lovely classroom newspaper with her Foundation Phase students.
Invited By: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When:  11/15/2012 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Time Zone:  (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria

These webinar recordings will be placed on the blog the following day in case you cannot join us at the time of broadcast.