Skype is a Microsoft product primarily designed for videoconferencing. Meanwhile, in recent years and due to the unprecedented wave of technology-driven education, Skype has been deployed as a distant learning tool for cross-cultural interactions among students and teachers across the globe.

Skype in the Classroom is an online community that enables thousands of teachers to inspire the next generation of global citizens through transformative learning.

How to Create Skype Activities

The Google Tools Masterclass 2.0 is the second batch of our Google tools training for Nigerian educators under the TeacherTeachTech campaign, in our drive to 'technologize' Africa.
We have always believe that embracing digital literacy is one thing African educators need to run at par with their global counterparts. We miss out so much when we still remain skeptical and resistant towards technological awareness in our educational and business handling.
Of course, one key reason why many are said to be resisting technology here in Africa is the cost of deploying it, which apparently, are on the higher side.
But then, a lot of us are yet to know that there are lots of low-cost but quality tools out there that can guarantee us a digitized experience in our teaching and learning processes.
Google stands out in providing such cost-effective solutions to schools. That's why this training is coming up. Every participant has so much to gain being part of this training.

This training is a video course, meaning you can be part of it from anywhere in Nigeria.

Keyword
Knowledge is Power. Whatever you spend in acquiring a skill set for personal development, is a lifetime investment. Make every sacrifice to get a skill for life!
This is 21st century; you need to stand out as a tech-savvy professional, if you must be relevant in this age.

The Key Points
There are lot of Google tools that aid education & business promotion and advancement. Meanwhile, our key points in this masterclass is on 4 major Google tools:



Learning Outcomes
The Google Tools Masterclass 2.0 is a pure practical class meant to profit educational brands.
By being part of this masterclass, you'll master the following for educational  profit:

1. ***How to open a Google Mail Account: This may sound funny, but the truth is that there are lot of persons out there who don't really know how to open an email account. Eventually, opening a Google mail account is the basic requirement for accessing and profiting from every other Google tool

2. ***Email Signature for product & event promotion and professional engagement with clients
3. ***Google Drive for cloud storage: Every of your school important documents as well as students and staff data can be permanently secured in the cloud to be accessible from anywhere in the world.

4. ***Google Drive for file sharing and privacy statement
5. ***Google Forms for database collection,(for students, staff parent)
6. ***Google Forms for auto-gradable customized worksheet for user-friendliness...
7. ***Google Forms for Classroom Polls and Surveys
8. ***Google Hangout for videoconferencing with parents, staff and students
9. ***Google Hangout for Distant Learning...
10. ***Google Hangout for chatting.


Course Duration


2 Weeks (Videos sent to your registered Gmail Account)


Course Fee


#2500 only (a 50% cut from the original fee!)


How to Register:


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There are a number of free cloud storage options available these days. These cloud storage are easy to use and provide free storage space up to 50GB. These storage solutions can serve great purposes for schools. Being a cloud storage system, each of these tools can be used by schools to secure their important data and documents permanently and for future use. Here we bring the list of the best free cloud storage, let’s dive deep to know more about these cloud storage solutions.

1. Google Drive

2. Media Fire

3. Mega

4. Dropbox

5. pCloud

6. OneDrive

7. iCloud

With these cloud storage tools, every school can both convert and secure important data and documents.

Wooclap is the latest brand of interactive classroom tool for today's classroom. Teachers can use it for classroom assessment in any subject area and for every assessment type.

In this post, I share with you 15 ways you can use the Wooclap free tool to administer classroom assessment with your students.

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1. Multiple choice questions: Here you tick the correct answer before posting, and children choose their answers.

2. Polls: You can ask the students a Yes/No question on pressing issue like, choosing Frank as the class prefect or opposing or proposing a debate notion.

3. Find image: Locating an object in an image. For example, you upload an image of African continent map and ask the children to locate where Nigeria is. You can also upload an image of the brain and ask the children to locate where a particular part of the brain is located.

4. Rating: You can have something like this: 'Rate the followiing subject according to your most favourite: Select score from 1 - 5, 5 being the most favourite'. Invariably, Rating option in Wooclap can be used to teach scale of preference in an Economics class.

5. Open question? Questions that can have multiple answers. Use it for brain teaser. Eg,
What part of speech is the word, crying? This type of question would be good for older children who can easily point out that 'crying' as a word can stand for, not only verb, but for noun and adjective, depending on its usage in a grammatical structure.

6. Word cloud: Use it to ask questions that have word limit. Eg, In one sentence, describe your mother (with a minimum of say, 50 characters.)

7. Guess a number: Mathematics brain teaser. Eg, 
How many rooms can be found in two flats of 6 rooms each? You can also use in word problems

8. Matching: Eg,
Match the Capital cities with their country; Match given CEOs with their businesses. The list is quite endless.

9. Prioritization: Eg, 
Which number should come first in a descending order? or Which word comes first in alphabetical order?

10. Sorting: Eg,
Sort the following historical timeline in Nigeria in a chronological order. Here, you outline four to five historical timeline, and the students are to select them one after the other in a chronological manner. This can be very helpful in a History or Social Studies class.

11. Filling in the blanks: Eg,
What should be the missing letter in the word below? 
A word like: pi[?]ea[?]p[?]e: (clue: a fruit). That word is pineapple. The children are expected to fill the blank spaces, marked, ?

12. Slide: Short answer. Eg,
Facebook CEO is ...

13. Brainstorm: As the name goes, the brainstorm option seeks to have individual student's opinion on a given multi-faced issue. You assist them by creating categories. Eg, "In the next five years, can you predict what every member of this class should be doing or engaged in?"

14. Upload videos

15. Interaction with the entire class.
 With Wooclap app, you can activate interaction, where every member of the class can easily see others' work and comment on them too.

Technology is really evolving- making the learning process more interactive and impacting. Today's teachers must leverage these powerful tools to drive an engaging classroom that inspires students to work.

Wooclap has offered us such benefit.

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The term digital literacy, in its simplest form, has to do with educating the school children on the use and mastering of basic digital tools, needed to effect a technology-driven education across the teaching and learning processes. 

In this context, digital literacy integration can be said to be same with a technology-driven classroom. In this post, we'll use the two terms as same.

Now the question is: In what ways can digital literacy integration in schools benefit the cause of students? There is need for us to address this, at least to win the war over the critics of modern technology implementation in the classroom.

Technology has its own ills, but here we try to look at how it has nonetheless serve the good of our students.

1. Self-paced lesson
Never at any time has lesson delivery been so all-encompassing than this period of technology-driven education. Today, when technology is employed in the classroom, say as a flipped classroom model, students of all learning abilities and group can easily learn at their own pace.

A child who can't grab everything during the class hour can still go back home and watch that video, visit that blog site, just name it. In fact, such children are even encouraged to study ahead of the class.

2. Participatory learning
Gone are the days when teachers take centre stage in every classroom delivery- dishing out personalized intellectual contents while the children look on in bewilderment. The table are rather turning today. Students are now reading ahead, as a result of having instant access to latest information. It also benefits teachers more as their job is made easier dealing with more-informed students.

Today's children are active participants in classroom engagement; no small thanks to the integration of digital literacy.

3. Immediate teacher and student feedback
Technology offers a platform for immediate teacher-student feedback. Learning as well as assessment can be processed from a clear-cut distance between the teacher and the students, with yet an instant feedback.

I remember using Microsoft Onenote in administering examination for my students those days. While the children are writing the exam, I can easily see at an instance, the progress made by each child so far. I could as well decide to start grading them; and each child would instantly see the grade while still working. How wonderful!

This is the same reason why today, some Exam bodies are releasing students' results just few hours after they dropped their pens- something that took months to get ready in the last few years. 

4. Skill development
Students who are making use of technology develop lifetime skill doing that. Everything about digital literacy is a lifetime skill development. Students develop critical thinking abilities needed to survive in their world, where skill is the key to survival.

5. Distant Learning
Digital literacy integration now offers students the opportunity to learn from anywhere, not only from their classroom teachers, but also from other teachers from around the globe.


There is no more constraint of time and distance. If a child misses a class for a genuine reason, lesson can still be sent across to him in real time or to be accessed at a more convenient time. Think of how this makes life easier for both teachers and students.


7. Global Connection