‘A Fresh Approach to Professional Development’ by Microsoft #MIEExpert15 Karen Stadler
This is a guest post from Karen Stadler one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2015. Karen teaches at Elkanah House Senior Primary and is well known globally especially for her Travelling Rhino project and her award-winning wiki. Karen is not unused to winning awards. Recently Karen won the prestigious ISTE award ISTE’s SIGOL Online Learning Award in 2014. In 2010 she won a trip to the BETT ICT conference in England as a result of a competition run by the Independent Education magazine, by ...Read more
This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda has contributed a number of blog posts on this blog in the past the most recent being about an Office Mix that she presented to a group of teachers on a Skype call with Nigeria. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com.
“NetLEARN is proud to once again announce the 2015 MOS Worldwide Championships which will be held in Dallas, Texas USA. We would like to pu...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye.
1. Soon Offline Access Will Be the Default Setting for Google Docs and Slides
http://goo.gl/1Wj2tX
This is great news for schools where Internet access is intermittent. Over the next couple of weeks offline access will become the default setting for folks who sign into Chrome on the web and visit Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.Bear in m...
This is a guest post from Kathryn Riva (@KathRiva), a Microsoft #MIEExpert15 teacher from South Africa. Visit her class blog at http://kidblog.org/MrsRsClass-14/ and her Grade 5 wiki at: https://micklefieldgrade52014.wikispaces.com/ Kathryn’s profile on the Microsoft Educator Network can be found at http://www.pil-network.com/profile/resources/93c9c707-803f-4fac-a53b-bc1e294a0b5e (you will need to (join and) log in first to view this) where you’ll see she has uploaded 13 great activities. ...
Here is an email from Karen Walstra who is the Program Manager for Education at Google for Education in South Africa.
Dear Administrators, IT Leaders, Academic Heads of Schools, Universities, FET and TVET Colleges
You are invited to attend one of our Innovation Tour Days in Durban, Johannesburg or Bloemfontein
At each one-day event we will share ideas about Google for Education from both the technical and academic points of view. Our GEG Team will also discuss Google communities and in...
This is a post about Mokhudu Machaba one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Mokhudu recently wrote a blog post on our SchoolNet blog about One Note suggesting it could be great to use with project-based learning. Mokhudu’s blog can be found at:
http://projectbasedteaching.wordpress.com In this post we highlight Mockudu’s achievement in receiving the Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer Certificate from Microsoft.
“Dear Mokhudu,
Congratulations! You have successfully completed the MIE Train...
We are pleased to announce the 3rd EdTechTeam South African Google Apps for Education Summit Tour. Please see the details below. We would love to see you all there. Please let any interested colleagues know about this as well.
We invite you to join us for the EdTechTeam South Africa Summit featuring Google and iOS for Education to be held at the Selborne Primary, in East London, and Parklands College in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2015.
See the event details here!
Join us…
October 2-3...
SchoolNet is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our 2015 ‘ICT in the Classroom’ conference in July 2015. Here are some of the details:
Date
1-3 July 2015
Venue
St Mary’s School in Kloof, Kwazulu-Natal
Fees
Book on or before the 30th April: R750
Book after the 30th April: R850
Who should attend
Teachers, school leaders and ICT co-ordinators, who want to learn more about using technology in engaging ways in and beyond the classroom
Conference themes
Curri...
Have you tried this llovely new Microsoft product Microsoft Sway? Microsoft’s Sway, an online tool for creating presentation documents, is now generally available to the public. Previously, a waiting list was in place. What makes Sway particularly interesting is that it doesn’t have traditional files, like the original Office suite. So it was built for the cloud! Like PowerPoint it is a presentation tool but quite different!
Some of our South Africa Microsoft MIEExpert teachers have been creati...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye.
1. Best Practices for Using Google Classroom – gCON for GAFE
http://goo.gl/BVNvzN
This is an hour long video. Join Juan De Luca, Google Certified Teacher and Trainer, and learn how take advantage of Google Classroom in your school. This simple, but powerful, tool can help organize your classroom workflow and improve the productivit...
