Webinar recording from Thurs 26th February 3:15pm ‘Professional Development for teachers’ by #MIEExpert Mabore Lekalakala
On Thursday afternoon 26 Feb 2015 at 3.15pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Professional Development for teachers’. This was presented by a South African teacher, Mabore Lekalakala, who is also a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert #MIEExpert15. Mabore will soon be attending the Global Forum in Redmond Washington.
The webinar description
Mabore added a description of the webinar:
“The following are the focus areas for the webinar:
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Read aloud with Nal’ibali and Gcina Mhlophe
Every year, World Read Aloud Day draws everyone’s attention to just how important reading aloud and sharing stories with children is. People all over the world spend time on this day celebrating the power of stories and building communities of readers.
This year World Read Aloud Day is being celebrated on 4 March 2015. Join us on this day and read a story especially written for us by South Africa’s best known storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe to childre...
Microsoft Showcase Classroom
For school leaders and educators to experience how Windows 8 Tablets, Office 365 and Microsoft Professional Development can help transform the classroom through immersive activities, delivered by Tablet Academy.
The right technology in the hands of educators with access to the best solutions and pedagogical training will create a force that truly transforms education across South Africa.
It is for this reason that we would like to invite forward thinking school leader...
What is OneNote Staff Notebook?
OneNote Staff Notebook, like OneNote Class Notebook, is an app for Office 365 that lets an education staff leader quickly set up a personal workspace for every staff member or teacher, a content library for shared information and a collaboration space for everyone to collaborate—all within one powerful notebook.
OneNote Staff Notebook has just been released
Building on the resounding excitement from teachers around OneNote Class Notebook (removing “Creator” namin...
Background to the webinar
Mabore says, “The South African government has invested a capital of approximately R17 billion ZAR budget in rolling out technology-based learning for primary school education. This roll-out is done in phases and is implemented from one province to the other. This has been a call for urgent teachers’ development in the use of ICT for teaching and learning, and digital literacy. To this end, educators’ professional development has become more relevant and a priority ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Monday the 16th of February 400 excited delegates gathered at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg for the South African iPad Summit. These iPad summits are held all over the world, so it was an honour to be able to attend the first one in Africa. The aim of the summit was to share ideas on the benefits of the tablet in the classroom as a tool for learning, sharing and improving creativity.
This event was hosted by Think Ahead (Michelle Lissoos) and Apple’s Core...
600 attendees from 40 countries are currently attending the 2015 Microsoft Global Forum in Dubai. From Twitter I gleaned the following photos. We have a number of South African teachers representing our country. Four of them are #MIEExpert15 teachers namely Kathryn Riva, Karen Stadler, Lyneth Crighton and Phuti Ragophala. Here the four of them can be seen standing…
Some of our SA teachers are highlighting their projects
Megan Rademeyer and Lyneth Crighton presented at the Global Summit. ...
On Thursday afternoon 19 Feb 2015 at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet free webinar entitled ‘Get to know Microsoft’s Chronomzoom’. This was presented by a South African educator, Linda Foulkes, who is also a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert #MIEExpert15. Linda will soon be representing South Africa at the Microsoft Global Forum in Redmond Washington.
The webinar description
Linda said: ChronoZoom is a free, open source, cross-platform, openly-authored timeline of the history of Everything. Th...
This is a profile from Phuti Ragopahala, one of South Africa’s Microsoft #MIEExperts for 2015. Phuti is a school principal who will be travelling to the Microsoft Global Forum in Dubai in a week’s time. Her blog can be seen at http://itandiksproject.blogspot.com/ . She has also written a hguest post for the SchoolNet blog on using Windows Movie maker. Her Microsoft Sway can be found at https://sway.com/q1BMnYZek9jiD3ZI. Phuti was the ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year Winner in South Africa in 2011.&nbs...
The ISPA Super Teacher Competition sponsored by the Internet service providers association is now open for registration, Please join us in promoting this competition at schools and amongst colleagues.
What is the ISPA SuperTeacher Competition?
The ISPA SuperTeacher Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (www.ispa.org.za) and managed by CoZa Cares Foundation (www.cozacares.co.za).
Background to the competition
ISPA launched the ISPA SuperTeacher ...
