SchoolNet is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our 2015 ‘ICT in the Classroom’ conference at St Mary’s School in Kloof, Kwazulu-Natal in July 2015. Here is our SAVE THE DATE flier. More details will follow in early 2015.
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If you have ever attended a TeachMeet you will know how exciting it is to hear everybody’s 3-5 minute ideas. Drik Greeff who is from the Department of Education in the Eastern Cape in the eLearning sub-directorate has sent a,essage about two TeachMeets in Port Elizabeth planned for 2015. If yyou live in that area please save these dates.
“Dear Colleagues in the Port Elizabeth and surrounding areas
We have exciting news: There will be two Teachmeet events in Port Elizabeth in 2015! Please wri...
Have you noticed? Today the name of the current Nokia Mobile Mathematics for Grade 10-12 Maths students changed due to the acquisition of Nokia Devices & Services business by Microsoft. The new name for the service is Microsoft Math
The upgrade to the website consists of simply a new landing (log-in) page, where you will see the new name, Microsoft Math, as well as a new layout including images and an introductory text about the service. Microsoft Math has also uploaded an Overvi...
Every now and then you come across a great blog that shares really interesting resources and shows how to use them in the classroom. Today I came across such a blog called Raki’s Rad Resources and on this blog were a number of great posts I would like to share with you http://www.rakisradresources.com
I really liked the Top Ten Lists that she has placed on her blog. These are collections of resources she has collected and feels they are worth sharing:
1. 10 best reading websites for the elementary cl...
The Google Educator Group (GEG) for Cape Town West Coast is being launched today at Parklands College in Table View from 3-6pm. Please just arrive if you haven’t yet booked. Here is a message that I received from the organiser yesterday:
“We’re really excited to have you at our Google Educator Group Launch tomorrow. We can’t wait to share the concept of the community with you. The programme for tomorrow is going to look something like this:
15:00 – Welcome and ̶...
This is a guest post from Deidre Bothma who is the Digital Learning Coordinator at Elkanah House Junior Schools. Deidre does very exciting lessons in her Grade R – 3 classes using a wide range of technology applications. In this post she uses Microsoft’s PowerPoint and Slideboom. This post also featured on Deidre’s blog http://technoboffins.wordpress.com/grade3/ Thank you for allowing us to use your post as a guest post Deidre!
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Have your Grade 10 – 12 students signed up for the great, free online Maths help service,Nokia Mobile Maths? This service is available on a web browser as well as a smartphone. The first thing to do is to register at https://momaths.nokia.com. It’s free of charge.
Recently Nokia Mobile Mathematics held a competition with great prizes, and the winners have been announced. This announcement can be found in the news section of the Nokia Mobile Maths application
The announcement says,
“Congratula...
This invitation comes from Tiaan Lotter a Google Educator Group (GEG) leader who teaches at Parklands College in Cape Town.
‘Google Educator Group?’ you ask. ‘What are they?’ Google Educator Groups (GEGs) are being established all over the world. They offer (free of charge) training to enhance the technical abilities of teachers and establish a platform for teachers in a community to collaborate and learn from one another. Here in South Africa SchoolNet is Google’s Education partn...
Office 365 core service for this post: Lync
You can use a Lync video conference to invite a ‘guest expert’ into your classroom – or even a grandparent to read to your class at story time.
Simply add your guest as a contact in People, and then schedule an online meeting with them using the Schedule meetingtool under their name. Your guest will get a link to the meeting and if they don’t have Lync on their computer they will be able to download it or use the Web App.
You will have a v...
A message from Steve Haragon, Co-Chair of the annual online Global Education Conference
“Thursday, November 20th, is day four of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. We had yet another great day of sessions and keynotes on Wednesday, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page (which includes the ones listed below up until you get this note).
The list of today’s sessions, in US-Eastern Standard Time, is below. To see t...
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