Spreadsheet Skills
All teachers should know how to use a Spreadsheet (usually Excel). A spreadsheet gridded system is used to compute grades and charts and can be used extensively in the classroom. Spreadsheets can be used to create rubrics, schedules and also for gathering numeric data. Charts can visually depict a variety of information and students can also create their own charts, thereby learning higher order thinking skills from this type of activity. Here are some useful links.
During the last 5 to 8 years technology has evolved. Educators used tools which today we consider as obsolete. Educators have to keep abreast with new changes and technologies. The following series will take a look at technology skills that educators can have. It does not mean that they have to conquer them all but in todays’ world, educators have to keep evolving just as technologies.
Continue reading ‘Technology Skills 1 – Google Tools Knowledge’
Patrícia Sacadura, a Portuguese teacher would like to embark on this project about the sea.
We want children from different countries to share knowledge about sea life by exchanging drawings, photos, powerpoint presentations, videos, etc.
If you are interested in joining her, log in to your eTwinning Desktop and go to FIND ETWINNERS. Copy and paste Patrícia Sacadura in the search box to locate her and send her an internal email requesting to start off this project together.
Enjoy!
This project is looking for more partners from around the Mediterranean countries. The students already part of this project are from Spain and Greece and they range from 7 to 12 years.
Continue reading ‘Eating Habits of Mediterranean People - eTwinning project’
Tomasz Rogoziński, a Polish teacher of English, together with his colleague, a History teacher want to start a History project about the 16th Century.
Two or more partners from the same countries are welcome to join this project.
The project will last 4 months and each partner will create an article or presentation about one of the following issues each month:
Continue reading ‘The 16th Century in Europe - History eTwinning Project’
Instead of just bookmarking, Diigo allows you to highlight text and attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages. Diigo highlights and sticky notes are persistent in the sense that whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page, just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a book!
Continue reading ‘Highlight and Add sticky notes on web pages’
This is a short reminder for all teachers who have not yet applied for the eLearning courses to be held in January 2011. Many courses are oversubscribed. What about you? Upgrade your pedagogy and help your students better.
Apply right now HERE. A certificate course is issued.
As a student, I always had thought that most of the lessons delivered by the teacher, were simple enough to understand and recall them whenever I wanted. Little did I know that my brain was storing the information only for a few seconds. I only would have realised about this short-term memory issue, when exams were approaching. Recalling the lesson was out of the question. What if the teacher would be kind enough to repeat the lesson? There is always the option to record the teacher. A new technology can solve this problem. Livescribe pens are designed so that students can not only hear the teachers’ voice but can see the notes and diagrams online, scribbled and narrated, by the same teacher. These are called Pencasts.
“Technology alone won’t create change. I am less and less convinced that adults will be able to fundamentally change how school is done.
I think it will be up to you…”
These are the ending quoatations of a letter to all teachers from Doug Johnson, an educator and educational book author. His letter inspires teachers to use and revolutionise teaching by using technology…
View the presentations, documents and video from the iLearn Platform Phase 1 Launch Briefing held on 14th December 2011
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