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

 

Last Wednesday we were very fortunate to have a guest presenter from Belgium, Bram Faems speaking on our SchoolNet/Microsoft  webinar on ‘Changing seats: Quiz creation using Power`point and game coding using Kodu’.  

Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils (Bram Faems)
Summary: 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.
Presenter: Bram Faems, Microsoft Teacher Trainer

Webinar recording
The recording of the webinar can be found at this link: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3kprfi6rjf/

Webinar presentation
Bram has kindly allowed the presentation he used to be embedded on this blog and in this post. Here it is:

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

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.
Name:Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint
Summary: 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.
Presenter: Fiona Beal from SchoolNet
Recording URL:  http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p49j0dtg4lg/

Here is a SlideShare of the presentation used in the webinar for a quick summary
Even more uses of PowerPoint

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

Yesterday we were very fortunate to have a wonderful guest presenter, Arjana Blazik from Croatia speaking on our SchoolNet/Microsoft  webinar on ‘Spice up your classroom with games’.  

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 Internationl Teachmeets as well as a number of online activities for the European SchoolNet’s e-twinning project. You can read Arjana’s blog ath ttp://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/ Arjana has been featured on Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a global Education Hero – read about her here:ttp://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/06/28/arjana-blazic/. 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). 

The presentation, website links and the recording link
Here is the presentation link:
  


Here is the link to the various sites that Arjana referred to:
http://instablogg.com/joj1DOv

Here is the recording link from Adobe Connect: (33 mins)
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p3wrmova9gu/
(sound problem in one or two places)

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

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.

Arjana Blazik from Croatia



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 Internationl Teachmeets as well as a number of online activities for the European SchoolNet’s e-twinning project. You can read Arjana’s blog at http://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/ Arjana has been featured on Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a global Education Hero – read about her here: ttp://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/06/28/arjana-blazic/. 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).    

Bram Faems from Belgium



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 http://www.leesvoer.be. Bram has been featured on Anthony Salcito, Vice-President of Microsoft’s blog, Daily Edventures as a global Education Hero – http://dailyedventures.com/index.php/2012/07/02/bram-faems/. He has also been honoured by the Queen in belgium for his innovative teaching.
Bram is a keen user of games in Education.

Details of these two upcoming webinars

1) Spice up your classroom with games (Arjana Blazik)
Summary: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.
Presenter: Arjana Blazik from Croatia
Starting Time: Wednesday 17th July 2013: 3:30 PM
Duration:30 mins
URL: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming2/
Access: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room

2) Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils  (Bram Faems)
Summary: 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 children the basics of coding with Kodu Game Lab  
Presenter: Bram Faems, Microsoft Teacher Trainer
Start Time: 3:30pm on Wednesday 24th July 2013
Duration: 30 mins
URL:http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gaming3/
Access: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room

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

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.
Name: Inspiring Educational Gaming projects
Summary: In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers in South Africa and further afield.
Presenter: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet
Recording url: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p4maekzsobv/


Here is a Slideshare of the PowerPoint used in this presentation (still to be added)

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

We invite you to two useful short webinars this week.

(1) Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint

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.

Name:Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint
Summary: 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.
Presenter: Fiona Beal from SchoolNet
Start Time: Wednesday June 19th at 3:30 PM
Duration: 15 - 30 minutes
URL: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint2/
Access: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room

(2) Inspiring Educational Gaming projects created by teachers
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.
Name: Inspiring Educational Gaming projects
Summary: In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers in South Africa and further afield.
Presenter: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet
Start Time: Thursday June 20th at 3:30 PM
Duration: 15 - 30 minutes
URL: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/gamification1/

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!

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

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We invite you to join our short webinar on Wednesday 12th June (TODAY) 3:30pm.  

Background to this week's webinarWe 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.

This week’s webinar
Name:Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?
Summary: 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!
Presenter: Fiona Beal from SchoolNet
Start Time: Wednesday June 12th at 3:30 PM
Duration: 15 - 30 minutes
URL: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/powerpoint1/
Access: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room

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).