One of the many wonderful things about having Google Apps at our school is that our students are able to have GMail accounts. This really does enable them to have the functionality we adults enjoy with having an email, with the added bonus of learning to use it in a supportive school environment. It allows…
Category: primary
Customizing your Class Google Site Banner
You can customize your class Google Site banner to personalize your site for your class. Here you will find instructions as to how to customize your banner using a Keynote template, or using iPhoto. Here’s how to use the Keynote template. Follow these steps to customize your site banner using iPhoto
Getting Started with your Class Blogs
Each infant class has been set up with a class blog accessible from the school website (www.uwcsea.edu.sg). The purpose of the blog is to share the learning that is happening in the classroom with parents and the wider community. 1. Log in to the school website and click on the East Learning (Note: The left…
Adding a Picasa Slideshow to your Blog
Follow these instructions to embed a Picasa Web Album to your blog. 1. Select the photos you would like to share from your iPhoto Library. 2. Click on File -> Export 3. Click on Picasa and make sure you have Better Quality selected. 4. Sign in to Picasa with your Google Apps account. 5. Click Allow access….
Getting Started with your Class Google Site
This year, each class has been set up with its own Google Site. The purpose is to keep our parents informed about specific goings on in each class, and to host weekly homework. Below is a screencast showing how to navigate to and get started with your class Google Site. Each grade has been set up…
Creating Announcements for Your Grade Level Page (HoG)
Each grade has been set up with a grade level page accessible from the school website (www.uwcsea.edu.sg). 1. Log in to the school website and click on the East Learning (Note: The left hand side of the icon) 2. Select Infant or Junior as needed 3. Select your grade level 4. This will take you to…
Presentations with Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck is a wonderful free app for iPad which really encourages high quality presentations using Creative Commons images. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get started: 1. Open the Haiku Deck app and click on the + button to start a new presentation. 2. Type in a title to your new presentation. 3….
Talk nerdy to me… using Siri, Dictation, Speak Text, and Google Voice Search
As I was prepping for a recent demo-slam event, I took some time to explore and rediscover some cool voice features on your Mac and iOS device. In this post, I’m going to highlight six cool things with you can do just by talking nerdy to your computer. System requirements: Mac with Mountain Lion 10.8.x;…
A Question of Colour
The Grade 5 team was lucky enough to have Noah Katz (Digital Literacy Coach at Dover) speak to them about Visual Literacy last week. He spoke about the elements of Graphic Design, referring to the acronym:CRABContrastRepetitionAlignmentBalance Before Students had the opportunity to design a poster, then give it a makeover. We saw some really interesting…
5 Minutes to Safer Searching & Viewing
We always want to help our students find the most relevant information when searching or viewing content online. Here are two great suggestions which can lead to a safer online experience for our students. 1. View Purewww.viewpure.com is a site which allows you to ‘purify’ YouTube videos by stripping away the comments section and the…