Google GEGs groups for teachers are springing up around South Africa. Why not join one?
We are pleased to report that the Google GEG (Google Educator Group) Kickstarter workshops have been taking place around South Africa. These workshops have taken place in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Rustenburg, Emalheni, Uppington and Durban. The final workshop for 2014 was a two day Train the Trainer workshop held for the Edunova staff in Phillipi Cape Town. Two workshops are planned in the near future at Hoerskool Noorderland in Polokwane, Limpopo and at Uplands College in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. GEG Dainf...Read more
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Teachers and Senior management teams from the five project schools in KZN attended a two day workshop during the January 2015 school holidays. Thembelihle Primary kindly hosted the workshop which was attended by twenty five participants and a team of facilitators comprising Hlengiwe Mfeka, Tracey Butchart, Senzo Ngcobo and Janet Thomson.
Purpose of the workshop
The purpose of the two new modules was to share the findings from the evaluation research wit...
In November 2014, sixteen teachers from South Africa and Lesotho were selected as Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts (MIEs) based on the innovative and impactful ways that they are using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning. From this group, eight Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts have now been selected to attend the Microsoft in Education Global Forums taking place in Dubai in February and Redmond, USA in April 2015. In addition to developing and sharing great learning activities on the Micro...
With many schools turning to Google Apps one of the first things that will happen when everything is set up is that teachers will receive their new email addresses which use Gmail. Setting up a signature is something that you might like to do as a teacher to give context to your email. Gmail allows you to add custom signatures to every email you send. You can add links, images, and completely change the formatting of the text.
1. Log in to your Gmail account
2. Go to Settings
Open the Settings menu. ...
This is a quick overview of a few apps that apply to fine motor skills, oral skills, writing, reading and Visual Literacy /Visual Perception skills in very young learners.
Fine Motor Skills
http://www.android4schools.com/2013/10/02/school-writing-handwriting-lessons-on-android-tablets/
Create customized handwriting lessons. Like other Android apps designed to teach handwriting, School Writing has number, letter, and word tracing activities.
Big Fat Canvas is a freedrawing app optimized for use ...
Have you ever wondered how to easily share free apps with others in a way that the apps won’t take up a lot of space on a tablet? This post highlights a great way to share your free apps without having to download them again. All you do is install them from the SD card on to your Android device using a special downloader called APK downloader (http://apk-dl.com/), and then share the SD card with someone else. When the app is to be used it is installed from the SD card.
Step 1: Use your PC for thi...
As you may recall, last year in November Nokia Maths changed its name to Microsoft maths after being bought out by Microsoft. This superb site can be accessed at https://math.microsoft.com. Best of all it is all free!
What is Microsoft Maths?
This is a site for Grade 10-12 Maths students to use after hours either in groups or individually to revise and improve their Maths content and get help with any queries…using their smartphones or tablet. The application can also be accessed from a desktop ...
This group of first time user teachers in the Port Sheptsone District have been loving the Intel Getting Stared training conducted by Nomty Gaba from SchoolNet.
The training for educators around Port Shepstone District started from the 12th to the 16th January 2015 from 09:00 – 16:00 hrs. There were 20 educators who attended Intel Getting Started course. All participants had no skills and they were first time users. Educators were from Thenjani, Imfume and Magabheni areas. The training i...
This is a guest post from Mabore Lekalakale of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Please follow Mabore on Twitter. Yesterday we posted a post from Mabore entitled ‘‘Khan Academy Maths – Learners Reality’ by Microsoft #MIEExpert from South Africa, Mabore Lelakala. Today we provide a follow up.
In yesterday’s blog post Mabore Lekalakala posted about Khan Academy and how it can provide beneficial help to Maths students.
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