Microsoft & SchoolNet are offering SA schools a free Professional Development session at your school this term. Read more!
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
NOTE: Due to the large response from schools this offer is on hold for the rest of April!
Microsoft and SchoolNet are offering your staff members a free professional development face-to-face session in Term 2. We would love to have about an hour of your time to come to talk to your staff about some of the great free digital tools that are available and to give them some ideas for incorporating ICT into teaching and learning. Ideally we would like to run this sessi...Read more
Would you like to know more about a fantastic resource for teachers that has loads of free tools and so many ideas for your classroom? We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar about what is available on the Partners in Learning Network on Thursday afternoon 17 April at 3.30pm. Our presenter is Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet. We would love you to join us and find out more. (Details below)
Webinar details
Meeting Name: Fantastic resou...
When and how?
Date: Sat., April 5, 2014
Time: 9:00am PT/10:00am MT/11:00am CT/12:00pm ET/6pm SAST (South Africa)
Location: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live
What is a Classroom 2 Live Show?
Peggy George, Lorie Moffat and Tammy Moore will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 Ning community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing and closed caption...
The Microsoft in Education Global Forum recognizes and celebrates the achievements of educators who are preparing students for life in the 21st century. Each year, the Microsoft in Education Global Forum brings together participants from the Microsoft Innovative Educators Program and the Microsoft Innovative Schools Program for an energetic, collaborative conference. This year the Global Forum took place in Barcelona, Spain between 11 and 14 March 2014. The Forum was attended by mor...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
There was so much excitement on Twitter yesterday! Why? One of my favourite writing apps on the iPad is BookCreator and there were many tweets yesterday announcing that this app is now available for Android! The Book Creator blog made this exciting statement yesterday about the product, ‘With over 4 million books made on the iPad with Book Creator, we’re very excited that from today anyone with an Android tablet can create, share and publish their own beautiful ebooks.â€...
Pearson’s forwarded us information about this International competition for teachers (and schools) and I thought it would be a great idea to promote it via our SchoolNet blog. Closing date is May 2nd 2014.
Information follows:
Read about last year’s winners
Read what the 2013 winners had to say about the competition here
School & Teacher of the Year Awards
The second annual School and Teacher of the year Awards will be presented at the 21CLHK December 2014 conference at the Hon...
Research shows that innovative teaching practices, combined with ICT access, are two key factors that lead to students’ acquisition of 21st century skills. But how do we provide professional development in a way that supports teachers on that path of innovation to integrate ICT into their daily practice?
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Join teacher trainers from NGOs, commercial providers, local governments and districts to find out how becoming a Microsoft Teacher Trainer can benefit you and the e...
Recently a teacher friend asked me if I knew of any free online timers, and this sent me on a bit of a search to see what was ‘out there’ in addition to my old favourite that I always use. What a pleasant surprise I got to see the great options available. 2.
1. Online stopwatch:. (http://www.online-stopwatch.com/)
If ever there was a site with a really good collection of timers it is this one. They have a lot of nice options for the classroom. All of these can be set to countdown any given number ...
submitted by Megan Rademeyer of SchoolNet
Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Network is a global community of educators dedicated to improving student learning worldwide. It is great place to look for free tools and software; tutorials on how to use technology; and tried and tested lesson plans submitted by teachers from around the world. Teachers who are part of this community use it to find colleagues in other countries for collaborative projects; as a place to read about and contribute t...
