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Thursday 19 July 2018

01:59

How to attach a Hyperlink to a PowerPoint Document (Digital Download)


Step by step guide on how to attach hyperlinks in PowerPoint documents


In exploring the digital space for an e-learning experience, teachers should be trained to take advantage of every available option to be more tech-savvy in their work presentation.


Today, as part of our mission to equip teachers with practical knowledge of mastering and using of the trending digital tools, we share a free tutorial on how to attach hyperlink to a PowerPoint document.


This tutorial is in a presentation format, to be downloaded before use.


Meanwhile, let’s look at few things about hyperlink.


What is Hyperlink?

In a technical term, hyperlink is a link from a hypertext document to another location, activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image. They are common in web pages and in html documents.


Today, hyperlink can be used in many ways. And it remains one of the best tools in creating a wow effects on presentations.


The essence of hyperlinking is to create a linked access to another document or webpage right on the current document.

How do I benefit from Hyperlink as a teacher?

v  Hyperlinking helps to concise multiple documents/files/webpages into one document.


v  It can serve as a marketing tool to promote other offers.


v  Different file formats can be exported into a document through hyperlinks.


v  It serves as an easy navigation tool for your readers.


v  Using Images to attach your hyperlink has a wow effect on learners.



Click here todownload the full presentation. It’s always FREE!

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Wednesday 18 July 2018

16:40

The Basic digital tools for e-learning takeoff in African schools


basic digital tools for e-learning takeoff in Africa


For those in developed countries of the world, e-learning is already running at an advanced stage due to the high level advancement in technology and learning.


But same cannot be said of many countries in Africa and other developing countries of the world where both technology and teachers are still operating at an analog pace.


Hence, in setting up e-learning structures for African schools, the most appropriate way to go about it is to start from the basics, from where, you raise the bar for optimum growth.


These basic digital tools can be set up without breaking the bank. With adequate training, effective management team and systemic progression, e-learning structures can be effectively set up and run in every average school in Africa.


In this post, I have listed the 5 basic digital tools that teachers in African schools must be trained on and master, in order for schools to take off with e-learning. These are:

-          Virtual classroom/School Management Portal

-          Video content creation

-          Google tools

-          Blogging

-          Graphic design



Read: EduTEaCHAfricaLaunches #TeacherTeachTech 
Program for Nigerian Schools



-         Virtual Classroom/ School Management Portal


Virtual classroom is an online classroom set-up where participants can interact, communicate, view and engage with learning resources.


This should be the first in the list of any school that desires to set up an e-learning structure.


There are lots of tools that schools can use as virtual classroom platforms the moment teachers are trained to use them.


We have the following:

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is the best Virtual classroom platform ever, at least at present. It’s a product of Google Incorporated.


Google Classroom is a free suite of productivity tools that includes email, documents, and storage. Classroom was designed collaboratively with teachers to help them save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students.


Read: 55 Ways to Benefit from Google Classroom 
                   as a TechEducational Tool



Microsoft OneNote

What Google is doing in Google Classroom is exactly what Microsoft wants to achieve with OneNote. Microsoft OneNote should have been seen as the better option if not for the cost.


To make OneNote run effectively in schools, there is need to deploy a Network Server with a constant power supply.


When deployed, OneNote has no rival. It’s a complete e-learning platform.


School Management Portal

This is a digital school management system that organizes and manages the entire school processes and procedures. A standard school management portal would have login portals for School admin, Teachers, Students and Parents. This will be needed for a full e-learning experience for every school.


Every aspect of school administration and processes are covered up- admission, exams and records, accounting, staffing, communication, subject and teacher section, attendance record, lesson timetable etc.


Today, there are many School Management Software providers offering quality and standard set up for a moderate fee.

We work with the best providers in the industry and would always help out if called upon.


We train both teachers and students on how to use it after set up.


Benefits:

a.      With Virtual classroom, you have the best of ready-made tools and platform to make teaching both impactful and thrilling.


b.      Virtual classroom enables teachers to work together in a single project.


c.       Virtual classroom is simply teaching students, technology with technology, which is the easiest way to inculcate 21st century skills in our learners.


d.      With Virtual classroom, schools can reach out to students outside their classroom if they want.


e.      Virtual Classroom is an organized classroom.


f.        Virtual classroom involves parents, teachers, students and school administrators in the running of a school system.





-         Video content creation

Teachers should be trained on how to create video lesson with the simplest tools on the net that guarantee both a thrilling and impactful classroom.


We have a combination of tools that are both cost effective and easy-to-use that teachers can master in producing video contents for their classroom deliveries.


Benefits:

a.      With video lesson, teachers can send the videos of their classroom work to students to learn over and over again. With this, even the dumbest child watching the video and listening to the teacher severally would have leant.

b.      Video lesson also helps to keep away school children from those unprofitable things they do with their computers. Here, they are with their computers, but doing something beneficial.

c.       With video lesson, teachers can have more time to attend to other pressing engagements, while playing the video for their students.

Teachers and schools can monetize video lessons in more than three ways:

-                     Podcast

-                    Youtube videos monetization

-                    Online tutorial

-                    Video blogging (Vlogging)



-         Google Tools

Part of the e-learning set ups in schools must involve the training of teachers on mastering and using the basic Google tools. In fact, Google has everything it takes to drive an e-learning experience for schools. It will be a minus if we don’t consider these powerful tools in this post.

-          Gmail account, aside being a messaging tool,  can be so customized that it becomes a marketing tool

-          Google Drive is a world of endless possibilities, ranging from free cloud storage of files to creating hyperlinks for files that have none, the usage is quite unending.

-          Google forms can be used for both customized worksheet for our classroom engagement and powerful marketing tools.

-          Youtube is part of the bargain for running with Google. Here, a teacher as well a school can monetize their channels, while reaching out to their world.


-          Google sheet is a spreadsheet package that serves you the same purpose as your usual MS Excel.

-          Google docs as a Word processing package, has a lot of functionalities that include templates for résumé, official invitation, lesson plan etc.

-          Google slide is a Google presentation package like MS PowerPoint.

-          Google Hangout is a chatting tool that offers such huge interaction between teacher and students. A lot of people are using Google hangout today as a webinar platform.


Combining these tools with Google classroom is a complete e-learning package for schools.



      Register Your School Here on training on 
Google Tools &Google Classroom



-         Blogging

Blogging as an e-learning tool is a platform to project the school, share contents with the global community and even create a lifetime wealth doing just that.

Of course, there are so much to do when it comes to blogging, but the moment it is set up, it becomes a lifetime money-spinner.

Schools stand in a very advantageous position going into blogging as producing contents and driving traffic is something already at their reach.


Read: 10 Recommended Blogging Ideas for African Teachers



-         Graphic design
Every teacher needs to learn how to create different forms of graphic. Think of e-Certificate, E-book cover, Social Media Header images, Social Media post graphics, Personal Branding, Business Logo, Infographic, etc.

Benefits:

a.      Instead of stealing other people work (a copyright infringement that can land one in trouble), you create your own brand the way you want it.

-          b.  You can make money creating for as well as teaching others graphic designs.
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-          c.  The pride of doing something that was before time exclusively for privileged few.



-          Canva Basics
-          Canva is one of the best tools for creating powerful graphics. We have basic trainings on the use of Canva.
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-          Advanced Canva Tutorial
-          Advanced Canva Tutorials is an advanced training on the use of Canva tools. Here, we teach you what many ‘experts’ in the field don’t even know.

This is the right time for African schools to queue into the wave of e-learning experience that is changing the face of global education and learning.


We train teachers and schools on effective use of these digital tools for e-learning takeoff.



You can register your school here


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Monday 16 July 2018

02:24

55 Ways to Benefit from Google Classroom in Schools

55 ways to benefit from Google Classroom in schools







Google Classroom is a free web service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google Account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and outside of schools. 

Google Classroom remains one of the e-learning platforms for schools who seek to explore the digital space in school administration and learning. G Suite for Education  is solely designed for schools pursuing an e-learning experience. And guess what? It’s free to register your school in the G Suite for Education

In this post, I share with you 55 powerful benefits of using Google Classroom. If your school is not part of G Suite for Education, then you guys are losing out from one of the best learning resources on the net. Meanwhile, schools with a G-Suite for Education license can still use Google Classroom effectively with great result.


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Benefits
  1. Easy Setup: Setting up a Classroom is as easy clicking a ‘create a class’ button and then send class codes to students to join.

  1. Sharing Resources: Google Classroom allows you to take a document, video or link and push it out to your students.

  1. Create a Lesson: More than simply assigning work to students, Google Classroom allows you to build an assignment. Include a description and attach multiple documents, links and videos. This puts the entire lesson in one place.

  1. Make Class Announcements: Google Classroom gives you a place to post your announcements. Unlike a website with one way communication, students can comment back on the announcement.

  1. Go Paperless: Using Google Docs you no longer need to collect and pass out paper. You can assign students a blank Google Doc or use a template that your students will fill out. Google Classroom creates a copy for each student and gives them a turn in button for when they are done.

  1. Simplify the Turn in Process: When using Google Documents, notoriously students forget to change the sharing settings or to turn in their work. Google Classroom eliminates this issue by placing the document in the teacher and the students Google Drive immediately. Students simply need to “turn in” within Google Classroom to signal the teacher they are ready to have their work assessed.

  1. Protect Privacy: Rather than creating a global folder shared with all of the students in the class, Google Classroom restricts access to the documents to the teacher and the individual student.

  1. Reduce Cheating: Since the entire class documents are not in a shared folder, the temptation to copy another student’s work is eliminated.

  1. Classroom Collaboration: When sharing a document the teacher is able to choose if the students can view the document or can edit it. Creating a document and giving all the students in the class editing access to that same document allows every student to contribute their piece to a class project.

  1. Create a Discussion: A spreadsheet can be utilized to collect student opinions on a discussion topic. The ability to have multiple tabs allows for multiple discussion questions. Sharing a single Google spreadsheet with student editing access gets everyone on the same page quickly and gives every student a voice in the discussion.

  1. Organize Assignments with Due Dates: In creating an assignment in Google Classroom you are able to assign a due date that is clear for both you and the students.

  1. Capture the Middle of the Process: An important shift in the teacher/student relationship is to get away from evaluator and focus on being a coach to your students. Google Classroom places all of the students work into a folder that is easily accessible from your Google Drive. While students are in the middle of working on their assignment you are able to go in and insert comments and guide them through the process.

  1. Email Students: No longer do you need to create a group of student email addresses, Google Classroom allows you to email everyone at once.

  1. Notify Students Who May Need Help: Google Classroom shows you who has and has not completed an assignment. Send an email notification providing tips for success and encouraging the student to work on the assignment.

  1. Assignment Q&A: When an assignment is posted to Google Classroom the students have the ability to comment on it. No longer do students have to wait to be called on to ask a question. This transcends the walls of the classroom to allow students to ask questions outside of class. When the teacher posts the response it is available to all of the students.

  1. Create an Ad Hoc Playlist: Google Classroom allows you to attach multiple YouTube videos to an announcement or assignment.

  1. Email Feedback: When returning work to students you can provide a global note to all the students or individually provide feedback. Google Classroom provides the ability to post a note to the assignment from the teacher, and allow the student to comment back. This replaces the one sided note in the margin of the students paper, providing a more dynamic experience.

  1. Create Folders: What was once a cumbersome process in Google Drive is now done automatically. The teacher has a folder in Google Drive that contains a folder for each assignment. This makes locating student work a snap!

  1. Link Directly: While Google Classroom places the student work into a folder for the teacher to find, a student list with a link to the students work is easily accessible directly from Google Classroom. This reduces the need of the teacher to dig through their Google Drive to find the work a student has completed.

  1. Multiple Files in an Assignment: Google Classroom allows you to assign more than a single document. This means students can create a multi-stage project and submit all of their pieces in one place.

  1. Easily View Student Submission: Google Classroom clearly counts how many students have and have not submitted an assignment.

  1. Collect Data: Linking to a Google Form or just a Google spreadsheet (Google sheet) from an announcement allows you to quickly gather data from students.

  1. Share with Multiple Classes: If you teach multiple sections of the same course, Google Classroom will create the assignment in each section.

  1. Collaborative Note Taking: Create a Google document and designate some students to be note takers for the discussion. Students can collaboratively take notes on the document and those notes are easily accessible by the other students through an announcement in Classroom.

  1. Display Student Work: With student permission, use an announcement to link to student work that is available in your Classroom Google Drive folder.

  1. One Student One Slide: Set an assignment to be a single Google Slides presentation that the class can edit. Modify the slide master to provide a template for student work when they insert their own slide.

  1. Target Parent Phone Calls: Google Classroom clearly shows which students did not complete an assignment. Use this list to make parent calls.

  1. Polling: Create an assignment to find out which students are attending a school event. If yes, have students write their name on a Google Doc that contains event information and then submit the assignment. Now you have a clear list of which students are attending. Unlike a Google Form, you also have a clear list of who is not.

  1. Share a Document with the Class: Google Classroom makes document distribution simple.

  1. Know Who Edits a Collaborative Document: Instead of sharing a Google Doc as anyone can edit, Google Classroom allows you to give edit access to all of the students for a single document without anonymous animals.

  1. Link to a Website: Relying on students to type in a web address correctly costs instructional minutes as you try to get everyone on the same page. Link to websites in a Google Classroom announcement and get everyone on the same page quickly.

  1. After Hours Help: Instead of sending students home to struggle on an assignment, students can post questions to the class to hopefully receive a peer or teacher response before it is due.

  1. Peer Feedback: Share a Google Slides presentation with ‘everyone can edit’ access. Each student is able to create a slide with their information and other students have easy access to insert comments on other student’s slides.

  1. Distribute Notes: Rather than focusing on note taking, students are able to focus on discussing. Posting the notes to a Google Classroom announcement allows students to pull up the notes easily and then spend class time talking about them instead of taking them.

  1. Sharing Informal Learning: As students discover ways to connect their classroom learning to their lives they are able to share this on Google Classroom. Students are able to share pictures, Google Docs, YouTube videos or links with the class.

  1. Email the Teacher: Google Classroom gives students an icon to email the teacher. Students can easily email the instructor their questions. Since it will come from the students GAfE account, the teacher can ensure that the message is from that student.

37. Rich assignment materials—Add materials to your assignments, such as YouTube videos, a Google Forms survey, PDFs, and other items from Google Drive. Teachers and students can draw on, write notes, and highlight documents and PDFs in the Classroom mobile app.

  1. Student Projects: Google Classroom allows students to attach multiple artifacts when submitting. Students can now in one place submit all the pieces of their project and it is neatly organized for the teacher.

  1. Eliminate Schlepping Papers Home: Having students utilize the Google Classroom app allows them to take pictures of their physical work and turn it in digital. Students on a Chromebook or other laptop can utilize the insert picture by snapshot feature in Google Docs to make the physical paper into a digital doc. This means you can ditch the box of papers you take home each night.

  1. Have One Place for All Files: Google Classroom is Google Drive management. Any documents students submit via Google Classroom are saved in Google Drive. This gives you one place to check for student work. When students do work in other products have them take a screenshot and submit the screenshot to Google Classroom.

  1. Document Digital Work: Create an assignment in Google Classroom and have students provide the link to their non-Google Digital work. On the turn in page students have the option to turn in a URL. If students create a website or wiki they can turn in their work by linking to it in Classroom.

  1. Students Create Google Docs: On the ‘turn in’ page for students, clicking ‘create’ allows students to start a new Google Document. This document is automatically attached in Google Classroom and titled the same as the assignment. The document title also is appended with the student’s name and saved in the assignment folder in Google Drive.

  1. Clearly Identify Student Work: When a document is shared with students as “Each student gets a copy” the new document shares the title of the template document and the student’s name is appended to the document title. Looking in the assignment Google Drive folder it is easy to identify which document belongs to which student.

  1. View Assignments: Google Classroom provides the teacher and student a list of assignments assigned. This makes it easy for students to find all the assignments they need to be working on. Clicking on “View All” the assignments are separated by ones the student needs “To-Do” and are “Done.”

  1. Virtual Office Hours: Obtain the permalink to a Google Hangout and link to it in the ‘About’ page of Google Classroom.

  1. Collaborate with Peers (PLC’s): Teachers can join a classroom as a student. This allows a grade level or subject area team to create a Google Classroom for the teacher group. Meeting notes, data and other documents can be linked and shared from Google Classroom. Teachers can submit their classroom results from benchmarks or other projects by using the “TURN IN” button in Classroom.

47. Better organization—Students can see assignments on the Work page, in the class stream, or on the class calendar. All class materials are automatically filed into Google Drive folders.

48. Works with apps you use—Classroom works with Google Docs, Calendar, Gmail, Drive, and Forms.

49. Affordable and secure—Classroom is free. Classroom contains no ads, never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes.

  1. Teach together—Co-teach a course with up to 20 other instructors

51. Transfer grades—Export final grades to Google Sheets or to a CSV file for upload elsewhere.

52. Integrate with other favorite teaching tools—Sync your existing Classroom classes with partner applications.

53. Set permissions—Enable or disable Classroom for all users, specific organizational units, and other G Suite for Education school districts. Also determine which teachers can create and manage classes.

  1. Access anytime, anywhere—Access Classroom on the web or via the Android and iOS Classroom mobile apps

  1. Virtual Faculty Meetings: The principal can ask all of the teachers to join a Google Classroom. Short videos can be linked in the Classroom to facilitate a flipped approach to faculty meetings. Links to Google Forms can be provided to have teachers provide data or respond to polling questions. Different departments can post announcements to the stream to share their news.

Now, your school can be part of the e-learning global project, and that, on a low-cost budget.


Your school can as well register on the ongoing #TeacherTeachTech digital training programs powered by the EduTEaCHAfrica.

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