Amazing Educators Schoolnet and Beyond

  This blog post will keep increasing in length as I post new hints and tips.  I will use the LIFO principle so the new posts will come up at the top!  And the title WAGs is from the sports world where the sportsmen (always men) are accompanied by their Wives and Girlfriends - though I would imagine that would be pretty explosive!  Should be Wives OR Girlfriends (WOGs? Doesn't sound right!) But, boringly, here it translates to WhatsApp Groups!   Have fun!  Leslie #3 WAG Tip - Sharing Essays There's a simple piece of advice about sharing long pieces of text in WAGs.  Don't. Very few people click the "Read more ..." unless the opening para is gripping, or you identify the piece as written by you, or you state a universal problem on which you have an opinion.  The best way to deal with large text is to share a link with an opening paragraph that explains why you are sharing the link. This means you may have to create the large text in an online ...

 [15:14, 17/11/2021] Jyoti Swaroop: h! Thanks for jogging my data base! CCQ and ICQ, here I come!! [15:18, 17/11/2021] Jyoti Swaroop: It would be great if everyone puts out one tool or idea that you use/used.  I'm sure like Leslie's and Padma 's input, we can adapt it to our context. These work in our everyday interactions as well. Please come forward with your ideas. Let's all benefit from it. [15:20, 17/11/2021] Les D'Gama: I have captured all the discussion from the beginning till 2:45 p.m. and published it in the raw on a blog.  We can keep adding datewise to the blog or even some special inputs. Here's the link https://amazingschoolnet.blogspot.com/2021/11/prelim-discussions-from-wa-group.html [15:29, 17/11/2021] Padma Chandrasekhar: You bet! I realised that communication actually gets more  effective with these. [15:33, 17/11/2021] Padma: I have created polls on the spot and used them, apart form the ideas shared. Loved all the ideas shared by Jyo and PC t...

Here's the unedited transcript of the chat between 08 and 17 November (Media is not captured) 08/11/21, 6:34 pm - Messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted. No one outside of this chat, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them. Tap to learn more. 05/09/13, 9:13 am - You created group "Trainers" 08/11/21, 6:34 pm - Padma J added you 08/11/21, 6:40 pm - Leslie D'Gama: I wonder why I ever left. 08/11/21, 6:40 pm - Leslie D'Gama: anyway, I am back. 08/11/21, 6:41 pm - Sanjeev Joseph Bhopal: Nice to see you  back 08/11/21, 6:42 pm - Leslie D'Gama: Sanjeev, there's another group that started today called "Schoolnet Team" - it is not restricted to trainers.  If you want to join that I will post the link here -- in fact, anyone. But this group needs to start working 08/11/21, 6:42 pm - Leslie D'Gama: https://chat.whatsapp.com/AJ5VlGBsK8p88pwDAJL4KD 08/11/21, 6:43 pm - Sanjeev Joseph Bhopal: Schoolnet team means old ILFS Education team!!! 08/11...