Awesome World Book Day post by @apeters522 ’The Birthday Bard is Back…and this time he’s 450 years old!’
This is another guest post from Anthony Peters @apeters522 who is an innovative English teacher from Parklands College in Cape Town. In previous posts Anthony shared his very successful Shakespeare QR code Scavenger Hunt Assessment activity done with Grade 9 students, as well as Awesome Aurasma – teaching the different forms of humour to a Grade 9 class using Aurasma and ‘Vivacious Visual Literacy!’ An innovative assessment task for Grade 9 Visual Literacy. Today’s post features ...Read more
Have you noticed the recent change of name of Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Network to the Microsoft Educator Network? (the URL is still http://www.pil-network.com/) This change took place on April 15th 2014. This post serves to emphasize some of the changes? But before we do so – have you joined the Microsoft Educator Network? There are amazing resources and great opportunities for professional development and opportunities to connect to teachers all over the wor...
Are you looking for an exciting way to curate information that you find on the Internet? Thinglink is a wonderful way to link important information to different points in images you have chosen. We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar about Thinglink on Thursday afternoon 24 April at 3.30pm. Our presenter is Linda Foulkes from Elkanah House. We would love you to join us. (Details below)
To get an idea of how Thinglink works, take a look at the following two links and see...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
What do you do when you find a good article on the Internet and you want to keep a record of it it later use? The best way is to ‘bookmark’ it quickly and simply. Bookmarking is an online process. So the question becomes ‘How do you bookmark sites when you are surfing the Internet?’
There are so many superb ways to do this ‘bookmarking’ but one of my favourite bookmarking sites is Diigo (http://diigo.com) because of all the amazing options that it off...
18th April is the closing date
There are only 4 more days for educators in South Africa to submit youth-produced media to the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards. All media must be submitted online through the Adobe Youth Voices Awards site – http://youthvoices.adobe.com/awards/submissions.
Who can enter
Please help to spread the word to educators in your countries – the competition is open to all. If the educators are part of your official AYV network program, please be sure they log...
This is another lovely guest post from Anthony Peters @apeters522 who is an innovative English teacher from Parklands College in Cape Town. In previous posts Anthony shared two exciting activities Shakespeare QR code Scavenger Hunt Assessment and ‘Awesome Aurasma – teaching the different forms of humour to a Grade 9 class’ In this latest post below he shares on assessing Visual Literacy using ‘Mission Impossible’ and an ever-enthusiastic school staff! Th...
On Thursday afternoon 10 April 2014 at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Fantastic resources available for teachers on the Partners in Learning Network’ prsented by Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet.
The webinar description
The Partners in Learning Network (www.pil-network.com) is a great platform for teachers to stay in touch with trends in education; to get ideas for lessons that use technology; and to complete free online courses. In this webinar we will talk about ho...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
We are pleased to announce that SchoolNet, Dainfern College and the amazing EdTech team from the USA are hosting a South Africa Summit featuring Google for Education in Johannesburg at Dainfern College on July 3rd and 4th 2014. We are really thrilled about this after the enormous success experienced at the first Google Summit in Africa which we hosted with Parklands College and the EdTechteam in Cape Town in 2013. We are also offering pre-summit workshops for a limited number of...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you seen this Data Literacy
Skills site called TuvaLabs https://www.tuvalabs.com? It really is
worth exploring. I thought I would giveTuvaLabs a quick review in this blogpost outlining how I experienced it.
TuvaLabs is a site that contains
all kinds of data from ‘reliable’ sources, and the goal at TuvaLabs is to help
students develop their data literacy skills, enable them to be critical
thinkers and persistent problem solvers, and empower them ...
Mrs Truett’s Third Grade
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Earlier this term, whist researching on the Internet, I cam across two posts on adjectives that fascinated me. The first was a post in a Grade 3 blog (Mrs Truter’s Third Grade) showing two photos of an activity on Adjectives http://goo.gl/2BtmFo (see one of the photos on the right). The second post was a video on the use of adjectives in descriptive writing found at http://goo.gl/OmZ77H This gave me the idea of doing ...
