SchoolNet’s 2013 free webinar season is about to begin in March

SchoolNet started incorporating weekly webinars into its programme 2012 and now its time for the 2013 season to begin. We will inform you of the March webinars in due course. Our SchoolNet webinars will take place on a Tuesday evening from 6:00-6:30 and these will link mainly to the free online courses that are being offered. 

In April we are making a start with a series of interesting Microsoft webinars. Unfortunately we cannot give the actual webinar URLs yet as we are waiting to be sent our Lync license so that we can use for these webinars. Consequently we won’t paste the dates in yet either suffice to say they will most likely take place on a Wednesday evening from 6:00 – 6:30pm starting in April.  Take a look at the topics and as soon as everything is finalised we will post the actual progamme with all the essential information on our webinars blog http://schoolnetsa-webinars.blogspot.com/. 

Partners in Learning Network 1
Microsoft’s Partners in Learning network is a great resource for every teacher. This webinar will show how to navigate the Partners in Learning Network – getting connected and finding material that will work for you

Partners in Learning Network 2
This webinar concentrates on how to contribute to the Partners in Learning Network – tagging resources, setting up a discussion forum, joining communities etc.

PowerPoint Tips and Tricks 1
PowerPoint has an amazing array of uses. This webinar will introduce some of the uses you may or may not know about.

PowerPoint Tips and Tricks 2
This webinar shows you some of the uses of PowerPoint that you probably didn’t know about.

Educational Gaming 1
This webinar introduces you to gaming as a tool to engage and motivate learners

Educational Gaming 2
Gaming for beginners – Mouse Mischief, Kodu, Interactive pictures

Educational Gaming 3
In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers.

Keep watching our webinars blog for more specific details about these webinars every Wednesday evening from 6pm – 6:30pm

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+

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
URL: http://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. 

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)

The link to join us is http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/newspapers/

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. 

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:

The AMAZING Google Chrome from Fiona Beal

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 meeting: http://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

To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/newspapers/

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