Calling all Innovative Educators! Applications for Microsoft Innovative Educator Program are now open…
The Microsoft in Education Global Forum taking place in Redmond, Washington in March 2015. If you think you’ve got what it takes to be recognised as a Microsoft Innovative Educator, join the Microsoft Educator Network and upload a learning activity that demonstrates how you are using 21st century teaching practices in your classroom by 24 October 2014. See
Microsoft believes that technology alone cannot build 21st century skills for students. Technology is an ac...Read more
SchoolNet South Africa has had the privilege to be funded over the next three years by the D G Murray Trust in South Africa to study the benefits of learning through the use of play and innovative technologies for learners in grades R and 1 in ten schools in two provinces in South Africa, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. The D G Murray Trust has a particular interest in the early primary years where the greatest impact can be made. As the focus of this project is play, we have selected...
Recently SchoolNet facilitated an extremely successful five day DBE Teacher Centre Managers training in Johannesburg. Representatives from 131 centres spread across all nine provinces arrived at Southern Suns O R Tambo for a week-long workshop from August 10th – 15th 2014. The purpose of the training programme was to explore a range of issues related to the functioning and management of Teacher Centres in all provinces in South Africa.
The programme was design...
An exciting new venture was launched by Google in South Africa at the Summit – Google Education groups at this URL: http://www.google.com/landing/geg/ This is a world-wide launch with each country having its own GEGs We invite you to join GEG South Africa. This announcement In South Africa at the Google in Education Summit was received with great excitement. Google believes that the best inspiration to educators are other educators. Go...
Just as in 2013, the Google Summit this year proved to be a huge success. It was a high intensity two days focusing squarely on the integration of technology across the curriculum and primarily on the effective use of Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote learning in the classroom. This year the event was hosted at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on July 3 & 4. A pre-conference day comprised two full-day workshops facilitated by Jay Atwood and James Sa...
Nokia Mobile Mathematics (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions. This service started in 2008 with 300 learners and within a couple of years had grown to 50,000 learners. Nokia then opened the service to informal learning so that students could have 24/7 access to its materials. This service has had major impact in interactive Maths learning. 53% of students are active users. The competence level of the users rose by...
SchoolNet SA is very pleased to be joining with Dainfern College in hosting the second annual EdTechTeam South Africa Summit at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on July 3 & 4, 2014. Unfortunately TODAY, June 2nd, is the last day for the early bird registrations. Please visit the conference website without delay and book your ticket at a significantly less rate.
The final summit programme is not yet out, but we'd like to highlight the type of presentations you mig...
Have you registered for the upcoming 2nd Annual Google in Education Summit to be held at Dainfern College on 3rd and 4th July this year? This Summit is a not-to-be missed event and we urge you to take advantage of the Early Bird Rates that close on June 2nd. The event is being presented by the EdTechTeam in partnership with SchoolNet South Africa and Dainfern College. We are also pleased to announce that there will be six distinguished presenters in addition to our local teachers who are having su...
The Microsoft in Education Global Forum recognizes and celebrates the achievements of educators and schools who are creating engaging and innovative learning opportunities for students. This year the Global Forum took place in Barcelona, Spain between 11 and 14 March 2014. It was attended by 260+ Microsoft Expert Educators; 150+ Governmental Education Leaders; and 300+ Top School Leaders from 75 countries including fourteen delegates from South Africa and Lesotho. All delegates agreed...
The teachers and final year Lesotho College of Education teaching students who received Windows 8 mobile phones as part of the Matuto™ Literacy for Life partnership last year are hard at work creating short stories to share with emerging readers. Feedback from this group led to the creation of the Chekhov phone app which makes it easy to create and publish a story from a Windows 8 mobile phone. When you want professional and mobile friendly website, lake worth web design is the company of choice for us....
