Warren Sparrow: October 2015

31 October 2015

NASCAR App

Wow this is so cool!!

Follow the excitement of the 2015 Chase for the

NASCAR Sprint Cup with the Windows 10 NASCAR app.

It.provides a comprehensive user experience in a customizable format.

Follow your favorite driver with targeted news, video and social content.

Get access to the live leaderboard, in-car cameras and driver audio during live races.

Follow the Chase with up-to-date standings and an interactive Chase Grid.

And one-touch navigation allows you purchase tickets or check

Click here to download the App

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The world of online learning

Check out this infographic about how the world of online learning has

changed and grown over the years.

Very interesting, especially the comparison between the

traditional vs the individual comparison!

30 October 2015

eLearning 101 Infographic

The eLearning 101 Infographic presents seven things to get you started

on your way to becoming an eLearning course developer:

1. Set Up Learning Objectives

2. Prepare Well

3. Use Multimedia in Your Slides

4. Keep it Simple

5. Practice Activities

6. Prepare Knowledge Checks

7. Tie It Into Real World Experiences

Excellent!

GeoGebra

GeoGebra is free dynamic mathematics software for all

levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra,

spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one

easy-to-use package. Interactive teaching and learning

resources created with GeoGebra can be shared and used

by everyone at tube.geogebra.org

Perfect for Grade 7 - 12

Click here to download the app

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Afrikaans Voegwoorde

This is a 10 page document that covers voegwoorde for Grade 5.

Click here to download the file (1.5 MB)

29 October 2015

Then vs Now: Technology in Schools

Wow this is really amazing how much things have changed over the years!

The Distracted Child Infographic

This infographic gives more tips on how to encourage reading in the 21st century.

Some great ideas here.

How to Safely Adopt Office 365 into Your School

Use the ideas in this ebook to increase adoption of Office 365

in your school or district and to help ensure that Microsoft's

productivity tools will be safe for teachers and students.

Click here to download the FREE 17 page pdf (7.2 MB)

#Microsoft #Microsoft Educator Network #MIEExpert15 #MSFTEduE2 #MSFTEdu

Math Invaders

This is great!

This is a free game that you can play. You can choose the

operation and difficulty.

Be warned it is not as easy as you think on the higher levels!!

Click here to go to the website

28 October 2015

10 Ways to Win with Windows 10 in the Classroom

1. Annotate in Microsoft Edge to easily plan and teach lessons

2. Read without distraction with the Reading View in Edge

3. Get things done faster with Cortana*, your clever new personal assistant

4. Snap windows to corners for easy multitasking (Windows key Windows key + arrow key)

5. Set up spoken reminders to keep track of tasks and events

6. Keep track of your day, and network, from the Action Center

7. Organize different workspaces with multiple desktops

8. Leverage new features in the exclusive universal Twitter app to stay connected

9. Transition between PC and Tablet mode seamlessly with Continuum

10. Upgrade your productivity with Office Mobile apps for Windows 10

This is so cool!

Click here to go to the full article

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu

Blended Flipped learning

This is a great infographic that shows the difference between

blended and Flipped classrooms.

To sum up a blended learning classroom is where a portion of the class

is replaced by online activities.

The flipped classroom is where the traditional class activity is

delivered outside of class hours. During class time the students concentrate

on smaller group problem - solving and other activities.

Excellent

#blendedlearning #flippedlearning

Learning Materials for Mobile Devices

This is a great FREE book on learning materials.

It covers all different topics, like audio, video, books,

documents, apps, images, storage, widgets, and other resources.

There is also a great topic on lessons and samples of workflows.

PS make sure that you download the kindle cloud add-on to read the book.

Excellent

Click here to go to the free book from Amazon.

Free registration is requited.

The Teacher's Guide To Choosing The Best Digital Content

This is really a great how to guide infographic

that goes from defining, researching, exploring and finally selecting

digital content.

27 October 2015

Intel® Learn Easy Steps infographic

This is the infographic which gives more information about the previous post.

Excellent

#Intel #MIEExpert15 #MSFTEduE2, #MSFTEdu

Intel® Learn Easy Steps

Intel Easy Steps Intel Learn Easy Steps gives your students foundational

digital learning that’s accessible online or offline.

Choose from over 40 topics grouped by category.

Tap an activity card to get a self-guided step-by-step mastery of the topic.

Check out the video below to learn more.

Click here to go to the website

(more information here)

Click here to go the online Course

Excellent!!

#Intel #MIEExpert15 #MSFTEduE2, #MSFTEdu

Flashcards Pro App

This is a great Windows app to make your own flashcards for your

tablet or Windows device.

It is really easy to use and another great thing is that you can download

flashcard sets from quizlet.com and cram.com as well

Excellent!!

Click here to download the app.

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu

26 October 2015

Grade 4 Mental Maths Test

This is a mental maths test for the Grade 4 learners.

It covers a little bit of everything

Click here for the original pdf worksheet

Map of Africa

How many of the countries can you label as part of the African continent?

Perfect for Senior Primary.

Click here for the original pdf

#geography

New Way of Learning infographic

The New Way of Learning infographic gives us hints about

why and how we should transform learning:

#learning #education

25 October 2015

24 Ed-Tech Terms You Should Know

So how many do you already know?

Time Management book

This is really a great FREE 17 page book for everyone by biz library

Effective Time Saving Tips and Strategies for Every Employee.

This is really great!

Some of the topics that it discusses are:

Choice Management, Decision Making and

Common Time Drains and Challenges

(There really is a great deal of things under this!)

and 7 Keys to Winning the Time Management Battle,

Making Better Choices with Our Time

Click here to download the Free book! (2.3MB)

Windows App NovaMind MindMapping

This is a great app that you can use to create mind-maps.

There is a free 'Lite' subscription which does not have everything,

but most of the features that you would use are included.

There are some great video tutorials on how to use the features.
I have included the first one below.

Click here to go to the tutorials

Click here to download the App from the App store

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu

Memory and Unforgettable eLearning Infographic

The ability for our minds to enhance or impair the memories we experience

is mind-blowing. The Memory and Unforgettable eLearning Infographic

shows how cognitive biases can be used when creating eLearning.

In summary the four are:

The Bizarreness Effect, the Humour Effect, the Generation Effect and the Picture Superiority Effect

Read the full article here

PicTriev

I am going through family history and a thought occurred to me.

If I have different pictures, how can I make sure that they are the same person?

After looking at a great deal of pages, software, etc I found PicTriev.

It gives you percentages of how similar two pictures are and if it

thinks it is the same person.

Measure similarity (how much they look alike) or identity

(whether they are from the same person) between two faces.

Very cool!

I think that this might be very useful as a history and research project ...

Click here to go to the website

#PicTriev

24 October 2015

Microsoft Educator Network

Have you seen the new site?

Microsoft announces new Educator Community!

The Microsoft Educator Network will retire shortly,

so they have encouraged you to explore the new community site.

Click here for more information

Click here for the new site

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu

A Guide to Formative Assessment Infographic

10 Ways to Know When Your Students Aren’t “Getting” It:

Building in ways to check for understanding during your daily lessons

helps you quickly and easily gather enough information to determine whether

or not your students “get it” and then make educated decisions about changes

you need to make to your planning and instruction as a result.

Click here for the full article from We are Teachers

Very Good!!

Teacher’s Appreciation Day Around The World

I did not realise that different countries have different days

for Teacher Appreciation Day.

In South Africa, we celebrate this on the 5 October each year.

According to the infographic this looks like the day that most

countries celebrate this day.

Click here for the original jpg (1.2 MB)

Microsoft Educator Network, MIEExpert15‬, MSFTEduE2‬, MSFTEdu‬, #Teachers

Learn about how plants grow Interactive

Learn about how plants grow by experimenting with different conditions.

Using heat & water, see if you can make the plant grow to a healthy size.

Perfect for Foundation Phase

Click here to go to the site

How to keep healthy interactive

Learn how to keep yourself healthy by discovering how

different exercises such as walking and running can affect your heart rate.

Great for Foundation Phase!

Click here to go to the website

How Tablets & Mobile Devices Have Changed the College Experience Infographic

How Tablets & Mobile Devices Have Changed the

College Experience

WOW, some really interesting facts here!

"College students own 7 tech devices on average.".

I wonder how this changes from country to country.

I would imagine that in South Africa this would be much less!

#education

Click here for the original jpg (1.5 MB)

22 October 2015

The Science of Classroom Design

This infographic has a look at the various things that you can do in your classroom.

Some of the things that are discussed are:

classroom space, use of colour, light and digital spaces.

Click here to download the original jpg

Adobe Photoshop Express

This is a great app for editing web and mobile application.

It is used to directly edit photos on blogs and social networking sites,

so that users do not have to download or upload images

Cool!

Click here to download from the App store

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu

Windows Solar System Simulation App

This is a really a great app for the solar system and beyond.

Click here to download the App

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English Grammar Pro

Here is a great Windows FREE App that does various English

components, like parts of speech, Grammar and spoken language.

Very cool!

Click here to download the App

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu

21 October 2015

Windows MathQuiz App

MathQuiz is an application that you can test your math skills in a fun way.

You can both improve your calculation skills and have fun.

You need to answer the questions in given time.

You can choose easy, medium and hard levels.

And you can also choose the question types you want to answer.

Very cool!!

Click here to download the APP

#Microsoft, #Microsoft Educator Network, #MIEExpert15, #MSFTEduE2‬, #MSFTEdu