Microsoft is offering another free download aimed at the education market. Learning Essentials provides the following resources:
Learning Essentials adds curriculum-based templates and toolbars to Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to guide students and teachers through projects. There is a separate set of tools for teachers and students. Some language versions include tools to create e-learning content.
Article which explains Reflector. A tool which helps capture the live video screen of your iPhone, iPad etc. It captures audio too. Great for creating educational tech videos.
For Victorian Schools only.
Are any of your students and teachers involved in using interesting and innovative online tools?
Have you been working with students and teachers on copyright, creative commons and Intellectual property?
Are you interested in helping your students to build online resources to share their discoveries with others? If you answer YES to any or all of the questions above then the SLAV Web Elements Engaged project might be for you.
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device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.
With the weather improving many of your students might be heading out on excursions or city experiences. Take a look at our post on the seven reasons why Evernote is the perfect tool for your students as they are on the move (and one reason why it...
This week the focus is iPad and Web 2.0 Tools Tutorials. These tutorials will support teachers to effectively embed technology into their Literacy and Numeracy programs.
I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.