WhatsApp and online teaching

The availability of smartphones, tablets and computers, as well as data, are obviously the biggest problems to overcome for many learners in South Africa in order to access online teaching and learning. Nevertheless, we have to strive to a dispensation where this becomes better and better. Will we have public WiFi points, with a useful quota of data per device per day, at some stage in the Free State to support the vulnerable learners?

Nevertheless, let's dedicate this post to WhatsApp and its uses in teaching.

Six ways to use WhatsApp in education is a video with good ideas. Sign in to Adele's YouTube channel for more.

While on WhatsApp, here are articles with useful tips:

• What is the difference between a group and a broadcast?
• WhatsApp broadcast: What do you need to know?
• Muting of notifications and other cool tricks.
• 21 WhatsApp tricks
• Six useful forward WhatsApp tricks

New WhatsApp features

WhatsApp is busy rolling out new features globally.

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One of this is improved file-sharing capabilities. Users can now send any type of file up to 100MB, for example, MSWord, Excel, etc. The full article about this is available here.

New WhatsApp scams - watch out teachers

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So many of us rely on messages on a daily basis and the fantastic service WhatsApp helps us with this. Unfortunately, there are always corrupt low life-forms that try to trick, steal and harm people. That is why everyone should be careful and watch out for scams. An interesting article recently appeared about new ways these bad people use to exploit WhatsApp.

WhatsApp versus SMS: What does it cost?

All of us use WhatsApp and SMS. Look at this interesting article about the costs involved.