Nokia Mobile Mathematics (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online Grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions. We encourage teachers to get their Grade 10-12 learners to join this service for continuing online Maths support after school hours.
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Have you visited the Wikipedia Education Program website? The idea behind the Wikipedia Education Program is simple: Educators and students around the world contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for class assignments.
Previous Wikipedia blogposts
This is a very exciting world-wide project and we have written two posts about it to date:
1) Wikipedia #1 –The Sinenjonga students in South Africa make a plea to cell phone providers…and the result
2) Wikipedia #2: Hav...
In our previous blogpost about Wikipedia entitled ‘Wikipedia #1 –The Sinenjonga students in South Africa make a plea to cell phone providers…and the results’ we reviewed the plea made by a group of Sinenjongo High School students from Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa who made a video in 2012 appealing to South African cell phone operators to provide zero rating or free access to Wikipedia. Today we note how this project is spreading through Africa and we ...
Do you remember the Sinenjongo students from Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton, Cape Town in South Africa who made a video in 2012 appealing to South African cell phone operators to provide zero rating or free access to Wikipedia?
The video they made is called ‘The 1 Generous Thing Mobile Providers Could Do To Help Kids’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTVAmstteM
MTN takes the challenge
The result of this was that MTN took the challenge to provide free Wikipedia access to learners...
Office 365 core service: SharePoint
As you get used to working with SharePoint you will probably want to explore some of the more advanced functions. There are many ways in which you can customise your website, including changing the theme, colour scheme and page layout.
Just go to the settings icon (shaped like a wheel) at the top right of your screen and you will see options for site settings and changing the look. Take some time to explore what you can do with your website. Remember, you can alwa...
This is a guest post from Karen Stadler @ICT_Integrator who is the recipient of this year’s ISTE’s SIGOL Online Learning Award. Karen will be sponsored to ISTE where she will be given recognition in front of 20,000 attendees along with the other ISTE Award winners. Karen is not unused to winning awards. In 2010 she won a trip to the BETT ICT conference in England as a result of a competition run by the Independent Education magazine, by writing an article about how ICT is implemented at her school an...
SchoolNetSA wishes to congratulate Karen Stadler for an amazing achievement. She has won a very coveted award from ISTE for her amazing, collaborative ‘Save the Rhino’ project. Karen has got teachers and classes from a large array of countries working on this global project.
Every year ISTE, the world’s largest technology in the classroom conference, gives special recognition to teachers who have impacted education. One of these special awards is called the SIGOL OnlineLearning Award. “Since 19...
SchoolNet SA is very pleased to be joining with Dainfern College in hosting the second annual EdTechTeam South Africa Summit at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on July 3 & 4, 2014. Unfortunately TODAY, June 2nd, is the last day for the early bird registrations. Please visit the conference website without delay and book your ticket at a significantly less rate
In our last Google Summit blog post we highlighted the six distinguished presenters for this upcoming Google Summi...
Nokia Mobile Mathematics (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online Grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions.
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 competence level of the user...
Office 365 core service: SharePoint
You can set up team sites for each of your classes using SharePoint. These can be sub-sites from a main student subject site, and further sub-sites from these. A site hierarchy for the Life Sciences students might look something like this:
Sub-sites are easy to set up using SharePoint and they work the same as their parent site. Just follow our guide and explore your Office 365 SharePoint features. You can always delete anything you are not happy with.
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