Teachers please sign up for a free ‘Digital Storytelling for the African Storybook Project 2014’ online course starting on 21st July…
If you are a teacher from South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda or Kenya we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a short, free, online digital storytelling course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA and Saide as part of the development of the amazing African Storybook website The course runs from July 21st – August 23rd 2014.
What is the African Storybook Project?
The African Storybook Project (ASP) is a project that is currently creating and encouraging the use of a multilingual,...Read more
The teachers and final year Lesotho College of Education teaching students who received Windows 8 mobile phones as part of the Matutoâ„¢ Literacy for Life partnership last year are hard at work creating short stories to share with emerging readers. Feedback from this group led to the creation of the Chekhov Phone App which makes it easy to create and publish a story from a Windows 8 mobile phone. Whilst SchoolNet SA is specifically encouraging Lesotho teachers to share their stories, we would like to re...
SchoolNet SA is very pleased to be joining with Dainfern College in hosting the second annual EdTechTeam South Africa Summit featuring Google in Education at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on July 3 & 4, 2014. This Summit will not be the same as last time since Google is ever on the move! Visit the Summit website http://za.gafesummit.com/ to see what is on offer.
A new exciting offer from the EdTech team to still get the early bird rate
If you haven’t yet registered and you still want to atten...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently, on 3rd and 4th June, I was privileged to attend a Multilingual Symposium on Literacy Development funded by the European Union at the Leriba Hotel in Centurion, Pretoria. Delegates hailed from the UK, USA, Canada, Uganda, Kenya, India, Mozambique and local including representatives from the Department of Basic Education. This was a very interesting event and I thought I would write about ten of my takeways.
1. The launch of the African Storybook Project webs...
This is a guest post from Helen Robertson from Mindset. Mindset Teach, in partnership with the Vodacom Foundation and the Department of Basic Education, are hosting a series of 72 free CAPS-aligned Maths and Physical Sciences webinars. We would like to encourage Maths and Science teachers to take advantage of participating in these webinars.
Are you looking for ideas on how to teach high school Maths or Physical Sciences? Or maybe, you’re just looking for a conversation with other professional...
The Intel Easy Steps course was developed to help people in rural communities gain Digital Literacy skills. Intel’s aim is to promote this course to help ensure that women, in particular, gain skills that allow them to understand how technology can improve their awareness of the world at large; and understand how to encourage Digital literacy in their homes and in their immediate community.
In this new project Intel SA has joined forces with the Department of Communications to promote Digital literacy...
This is a guest post from Tiaan Lotter, one of four teachers from South Africa who were selected to attend the Google Teacher Academy in London after the very successful EdTechTeam’s Google in Education Summit held at Parklands College in Cape Town in September 2013. Tiaan tells us about his amazing experience at the Google Teacher Academy.
The Idea
During 2013 Parklands College hosted the first ever Google Apps For Educate (GAFE) Summit in South Africa. During the final presentation the...
This is a message from Peris Njehiah of iEARN to teachers in South Africa. There is a great competition that is open to all schools in Africa and Germany. Read about it here:
“ I am very pleased to inform you that our COMENGA High School Media Challenge is now officially open! The competition is open to all schools in Africa and Germany. Your school is very welcome to partake in this challenge. Kindly find the task to be completed and get the application forms from omashani@school...
A number of schools in KwaZulu-Natal have been visited to encourage teachers to sign up for the Partners in Learning Network, known as the Microsoft Educators Network form 2014 (see www.pil-network.com). SchoolNet SA’s two KwaZulu-Natal based trainers have also made an effort to encourage teachers to sign up during other training sessions. Some of these sessions are described below:
Isibongo Primary: Mpophomeni Township
Isibongo Primary School received nine tablets for participating in the Touchable ...
This is a guest post from Linda Foulkes from Elkanah House who runs a regular TeachMeet at Elkanah House every term for teachers around Cape Town. This post was on her blog so I asked if I could use it as a guest post. Linda’s students at Elkanah House have just won, for the second year in a row the 2014 Microsoft Office Specialist Championships and will be competing in the World Championships in Disneyland in july. Not only that her students have won the Adobe Certipot competition in So...
