What is Microsoft Sway and where
do you find it?
• new Microsoft online tool
• web based tool
• create and share ideas
• An online presentation tool.
Go to https://sway.com/ and sign up
What is an example of a Sway?
Julie Hembree a teacher-librarian in Seattle
https://sway.com/gEzHZoxYMyLi9V9M
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2014/11/18/guest-blog-microsoft-s-
sway-is-perfect-for-the-modern-classroom.aspx
What can you add to a Sway?
How can one use Sway in a
classroom?
1. Assignment
Why teenagers like Facebook
YouTube and Teenagers
Why is Facebook risky?
Using social media as a teenager
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/2015/05/tak
e-education-to-new-heights-using.html
Kathryn Riv rom Micklefied Primary also set an assignment using
Sway and on the blogpost shown below she gives the assignment
plus some of the student examples
2. Digital storytelling
Little Red Riding Hood The Gingerbread Man
3. A writing portfolio
My Writing portfolio
4. A recap of an event
https://sway.com/3lIMfn7w98yH6TJo
https://youtu.be/Qq7FaWkMAiY
5. So many other ways
How can I make a Sway?
Let’s go through the steps in
www.sway.com
THE END
This presentation and the recording of the webinar
will be uploaded to the SchoolNet blog tomorrow:
www.schoolnetsa.blogspot.com

‘Microsoft Sway – what it is, how to use it in the classroom, and how to create one’ by Fiona Beal