Digital Storytelling #2: What is Creative Commons Licensing all about?
Submitted by Fiona Beal
How much do you know about the ins and outs of posting something you have created on the Internet? Can anyone use it and share it? Can you use and share anything someone else has posted?
Introducing Copyright on the web
The African Storybook team felt that it was important to learn about free licensing on the web right at the beginning of this course. Licensing tells others what they can and can’t do with anything you put on the web. Basically, when you put something on...Read more
SchoolNet SA has been providing training and support to champion teachers from five schools in Limpopo that have received internet access and Windows 8 devices through Microsoft’s TV White Spaces project. At the launch event on Wednesday 18 June Simon Matlebjane of Mountainview High School presented some of the ways in which he was integrating technology into his lessons and sharing his computer skills with his colleagues. Delegates then visited Doasho High School to watch a demonstration of a lesson t...
Nokia has been running a Mobile Learning for Mathematics project in South Africa since 2008, collaborating with the South African government, Nokia Siemens Networks, as well as operators and content providers. Nokia Mobile Mathematics (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online Grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions.
Here is a video showing how learners appreciate this help
The programme started in 2008 with 300 learners and within a couple of year...
Seeking Partners: iEARN Projects and Activities
Are you facilitating an iEARN project? Do you have an idea for a new iEARN project? The 2014-2015 iEARN Project Book will be published in early September 2014 and we would love to include all new and activeiEARN projects! If you are facilitating a currently active iEARN project, please submit an updated iEARN Project Template. If you have an idea for a new iEARN project, please first post your project idea in the Teachers Forum or, for students, the Y...
Last year ITWeb wrote an online article outlining the offer that Nokia makes to Grade 10-12 Mathematics learners, Nokia offers free mobile Maths service, and explaining that Nokia Mobile Mathematics (MoMaths) is a mobile phone service that helps learners from Grades 10 to 12 better understand Mathematics. This Nokia Mobile Mathematics service (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online Grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 10000+ CAPS-aligned questions.&n...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you ever thought of using a Google+ community for classroom interaction or to run an online course? I recently created a community to use for running an online coure and it worked extremely well. I thought I would share the steps to creating such a community below.
Using a Google+ community to run an online course
This is a paperless way of running a course. The course materials are housed on another site such as a website, a Google site or a blog. If assessments or pol...
SABC Education African EduWeek 2014 opens today, Thursday 10 July, at 8.30am! THis post is taken from the last email sent out advertising the conference. The African EduWeek expo 2014 is free-to-attend for all visitors. If you haven’t already registered you can do so upon arrival at the event on Thursday 10 or Friday 11 July.
Wednesday July 9th saw the African EduWeek pre-conference take place and our exhibitors busy putting the finishing touches to their stands. African EduWeek opens t...
Submitted by Janet Thomson, Executive Director of SchoolNetSA
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 ...
The Google in Education Summit held last week at Dainfern College in Johannesburg was a really awesome event. The EdTech team had seven amazing presenters – see more here http://za.gafesummit.com/2014/presenters who presented along with some of our local stars who are using Google effectively in the classroom.
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 la...
It is very exciting to see the current interest in using ICT in the classroom in South Africa. I thought I would make a list of the upcoming conferences that I know about which teachers could investigate. They are listed below in the order of their dates. .
1. Google in Education Summit, Johannesburg, July
This of course is the not-to-be missed summit that is being presented by the EdTEchTeam and hosted by SchoolNet SA and Dainfern College at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on 3rd and 4th July with...
