Teachers – help suggest projects for the new iEARN global project book
Are you a teacher who wants to introduce your class to a global project an link with schools in other parts of the world? The challenge is where to find suitable projects to link with. Do you know about the iEARN Project Book with its amazing global projects?
What is iEARN?
iEARN comprises a network of international educators and students working together to learn with the world! iEARN is a community of educators who share the vision that online collaborative projects can enhance both learning as...Read more
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Please sign up for the ‘Digital Storytelling and the African Storybook Project’ free online course starting 21 July 2014
SchoolNet and Saide are running a short, free online digital storytelling course for teachers, educators and other potential writers as a story acquisition strategy for the amazing newly-launched African Storybook website (http://africanstorybook.org/).
About the course
The course is open to educators and others ...
Nokia Mobile Mathematics (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online Grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions.
About the programme
This programme started in 2008 with 300 learners and within a couple of years had grown to 50,000 learners. Nokia then opened the service to informal learning so that students could have 24/7 access to its materials. This programme has had major impact in interactive Maths learning. 53% of students are active users. The compe...
Office 365 core service: 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 video and audio co...
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If you are a teacher from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya or Uganda reading this we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a free online writing course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA and Saide as part of this amazing African Storybook project and website that has been developed for Africa. Find out how to join the course here. (The course can be done using any device platform – PC, Apple Device, iPad, Android, Windows phone etc.)
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If you are a teacher from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya or Uganda reading this we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a free online writing course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA and Saide as part of this amazing African Storybook project and website that has been developed for Africa. Find out how to join the course here. (The course can be done using any device platform – PC, Apple Device, iPad, Android, Windows phone etc.)
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If you are a teacher from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya or Uganda reading this we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a free online writing course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA and Saide as part of this amazing African Storybook project and website that has been developed for Africa. Find out how to join the course here. (The course can be done using any device platform – PC, Apple Device, iPad, Android, Windows phone etc.)
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The Nokia Mobile Mathematics programme has been around since 2008 and it grew rapidly from 300 – 50, 000 in 2012. Since the it has been opened to informal learning. Do your Grade 10 – 12 learners know about this?
Nokia Mobile Mathematics is a free, online Grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions.
Nokia now offers 24/7 service to its interactive Maths learning materials.
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Take a look at this diagram of the Nokia Mobile Mat...
Google is a company on the move with free education products that are growing in number daily. Everything can be stored easily in the cloud via Google Drive. In fact using Google in the classroom is a great way to go!
So, it stands to reason that it is important to attend the not-to-be missed Google in Education Summit that is being hosted by SchoolNet SA and Dainfern College at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on 3rd and 4th July with a pre-conference with separate pricing taking place the day b...
