‘How to use Microsoft Sway to teach, share and archive learning activities’ by Phuti Ragophala from Pula Madibogo Primary
1. HOW TO USE MICROSOFT SWAY.COM
TO TEACH,SHARE AND TO ARCHIVE
LEARNING ACTVITIES
By Phuti Ragophala from Pula Madibogo
Primary School in Limpopo Province
2. tSway is one of the recent apps by Microsoft which is
very much user friendly. I use it to text messages, to
upload videos, to paste images and paste
recorded utube and skyped videos and for learners
to upload their projects both images and animated
3. How to upload it
Get to internet explorer
Google the word sway.com
Sign up with your Microsoft account
And start creating your sway.
Peep in the video provided there for more insight
You can create as many sway as you can
Each and every sway you create has a link
You can share through face book, twitter,
oneNote , blog post ,yammer etc
4. COMPARISON OF SWAY AND POWER POINT
Sway Power point
The desings are fixed
The background colurs are fixed
If you created power point you cannot re
shape it easily as you do with sway
Projecting information you need to follow
certain steps unlike with sway
Need to upload first before sharing
Animated images dont work well as in
sway
You can design it they way you want by
clicking on Remix
You get different shape and background
colours as you remix
It brings back live to pictures and text
Animated images works well in sway
You can project your ideas at once using it
I you are no satisfied about its appearance
you click remix and get more beautiful
shapes and background.
Straight Share in facebook, twitter, one
Note,blog post using links
5. How i used it
Reports and share knowledge
Learners work and animated projects
Learners videos
Educators workshops
Keeping school records of projects for sharing
and reference
Works as an archive
Learners songs about their lessons
My teachings and lesson on u tube videos
6. SOME OF THE LINKS ABOUT MY WORK
AND LEARNERS WORK ON SWAY.
9. RECOMMENDATIONS
If you say you teach the way learners learn and still not in the social
media, then think twice. We need to be where learners are in order
to win their minds.
Traditional way of teaching and learning has no room in this era!
I urge all educators to transform their way of teaching. We don't say
technology can replace a teacher but it can assist a teacher in
simplifying the learning content.