SchoolNet's April webinar programme

Microsoft webinars during April
In April we are making a start with two from a series of interesting Microsoft webinars. Keep watching this space for the actual links to the webinars. These will be pasted as soon as our Lync webinar software in in place. 

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.

Keep watching our webinars blog for more specific details about these webinars every Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 - 4:00pm

Digital Storytelling webinars
These will take place every Tuesday evening in April from 6:00 - 6:30pm. The topics will be confirmed here soon.

SchoolNet's March webinars

Our SchoolNet webinars usually take place from 6:00-6:30 pm on a designated week evening,  and these will mostly link to the free online courses that are being offered which is currently 'Use Google for Professional development'. Here are the details of the two remaining webinars for March 2013. Please join us if you can. 

1. Get to know Google +
Google + is Google's social network designed to let you share up-to-the second updates, ideas, thoughts, links and media with your friends and the public. Google always does things at a slightly different angle and this is true of Google+. Join this 15 minute webinar to find out more...

Meeting Name: Let's explore Google +
Summary: This webinar takes a look at Google plus and its interesting features. It covers
*What is Google +
*Highlights of interesting features
*Circles
*How to write a post
*How to receive a notification
*Benefits to education
When: Thursday 14th March 6:00 PM
Duration: 15 minutes
Presenter: Fiona Beal
To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/exploregoogleplus/ 


Webinar presentation and recording
This is the SlideShare presentation used in the webinar:

Let's explore Google plus! from Fiona Beal

Here is the recording of the webinar ‘Let’s explore Google+’.
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9itas0ae70/

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2. So, how does a Google hangout work?
Google hangouts are a free video chat service from Google, connected to Google +, that enables both one-on-one chats and group chats with up to ten people at a time. There are enormous benefits to this for education.

Meeting Name: So how does a Google hangout work?
Summary: Google hangouts are part of Google plus. This video chat feature allows you to invite nine others (total of 10) to video chat, IM chat, watch YouTube videos together, share documents and much much more. These are perfect for professional development or planning sessions
When: Tuesday 26th March 6pm
Duration: 15 minutes
Presenter: Fiona Beal
To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/googlehangouts/

Webinar recording

Google hangouts are a free video chat service from Google, connected to Google +, that enables both one-on-one chats and group chats with up to ten people at a time. There are enormous benefits to this for education. This is the webinar recording entitled 'So, how does a Google hangout work?

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Test your system first
1) (Must do this) Test your connection:
If you have never experienced an Adobe Connect  webinar before all you really need to do for  is test your connection before the time as you might need to add an add-in: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. 

2) Click on the link, log in as a guest and write your name
Then on the evening just click on the link, log in as a guest and write your name.

3) (Optional) Get a quick overview:
http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

SchoolNet webinar recording 'Let's explore Google Chrome and its extensions'

Google Chrome is definitely a fascinating and very user-friendly browser.  Some of the things I love about using it are:

• You can easily create many different profiles for Chrome so that each email address you have uses its own profile.
• The URL bar is called an Omnibox because you can search from it just as if you were operating in Google Search. 
• One can paste all sorts of bookmarklets in the bookmarks bar. i.e. Pin it for Pinterest, ‘Scoop.it’ for Scoop.it etc.
• There are so many wonderful time-saving extensions to add to the top right portion of the browser.
• There are many applications that one can install on to the Google Search page for quick access.

Webinar recording
Last night SchoolNet hosted a webinar called ‘Let’s explore Google Chrome and its extensions’. Here is the recording link.

Webinar presentationThis is the webinar presentation on SlideShare.

Google chrome from Fiona Beal

Webinar recording: Let's explore Google Chrome and its extensions (05/03/2013)

Google Chrome is definitely a fascinating and very user-friendly browser.  Some of the things I love about using it are:

• You can easily create many different profiles for Chrome so that each email address you have uses its own profile.
• The URL bar is called an Omnibox because you can search from it just as if you were operating in Google Search. 
• One can paste all sorts of bookmarklets in the bookmarks bar. i.e. Pin it for Pinterest, ‘Scoop.it’ for Scoop.it etc.
• There are so many wonderful time-saving extensions to add to the top right portion of the browser.
• There are many applications that one can install on to the Google Search page for quick access.

Webinar recording
Last night's webinar which supported our current onlne course 'Google for Professional Development' was called ‘Let’s explore Google Chrome and its extensions’. Here is the recording link.

Webinar presentation
This is the webinar presentation on SlideShare.

Google chrome from Fiona Beal

 

Join us!

http://www.w3schools.com lists Google Chrome as the current most used browser world-wide. Want to know more about the Chrome browser? We invite you to join a 15minute SchoolNet webinar this evening from 6:00 – 6:15pm

Come and discover how easy it is to use the Chrome browser to have a very different browsing experience. You can create multiple browsers for different email address, and best is that you can add free applications and extensions to those browsers which is so useful for the classroom. In this webinar we look at how to add extensions, and list ten+ favourite useful extensions. 

Meeting Name:  Explore the Chrome browser and its amazing extensions
Summary: This webinar sets out to show what one can do with Google Chrome! Chrome is an extraordinary browser with all sorts of tips and tricks you might not know about to make browsing a breeze!
When: Tuesday 05/03/2013 at 6:00 PM
Duration: 15 minutes
Presenter: Fiona Beal
To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/chromebrowser/

Test your system first

1) (Must do this) Test your connection:
If you have never experienced an Adobe Connect  webinar before all you really need to do for  is test your connection before the time as you might need to add an add-in: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. 

2) Click on the link, log in as a guest and write your name
Then on the evening just click on the link, log in as a guest and write your name.

3) (Optional) Get a quick overview:http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

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.