Highlights from the Microsoft in Education Global Forum – Barcelona 11 – 14 March 2014
Presented by Megan Rademeyer
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 ...Read more
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet
The Department of Communications in partnership with the Department of Basic Education has been rolling out end-to-end ICT solutions to selected schools. The selected schools each receive 20 laptops with sponsored connectivity. Telkom SA supplied the laptops and the equipment for internet connectivity for each of the 1650 schools. Intel South Africa is sponsoring teacher training on the provided equipment and SchoolNe...
submitted by Hlengiwer Mfeka
KwaMashu, KZN: Isibonelo Secondary School opened their new fully fledged-computer lab that may be used to preparing learners for the 21st century economy on 21 February 2014. The lab resulted from the efforts between giveITback and EasyPay. The effort is an example of how public-private partnerships are still a viable option to mobilize resources and enhance efforts to bridge a digital divide.
The lab include 36 new modern computers equipped with educational soft...
SchoolNet has been providing the training to various countries in the Caribbean as part of the The Commonwealth Certificate for Teacher ICT Integration (CCTI), an online course that SchoolNet developed for the Commonwealth of Learning. The course comprises four core modules and six electives and it takes place over a two year period.
At SchoolNet we were absolutely delighted when we received an invitation to attend a graduation virtually! The first Caribbean country to complete the full qualifica...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet
The National Teaching Awards has, since 2000, sought to pay tribute to South African teachers who work daily miracles at their schools. The 2014 National Teaching Awards was held on the 6th March at the Birchwood Hotel in Gauteng. The awards culminated in a night of wonder for finalists who were celebrated by the President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, his Education Ministers Ms Angie Motshekga, and Enver Surty; the Director General, Mr. Bobby Soobrayan, the MECs for ...
The Internet is amazing! I saw one of these word lists that primary school teachers love on Twitter and that sent me exploring for more! I started off by looking up a list of alternative words for ‘nice’, as one always needs that at school, and came across all these lists of alternatives in different locations. Take a look! There’s no doubt – teachers of English can find some amazing stuff when they surf the Internet…or use Twitter!
Alternative words for ‘nice’ from htt...
I decided to piece together some information about South Africa’s participation in Microsoft’s Global Forum in Barcelona last week from postings in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – and this post is the result!
Who attended from South Africa and Lesotho?
This amazing event took place in Barcelona, Spain last week.
South Africa had two teacher representatives who had submitted exceptional projects, namely Phuti Ragogeola and Cheryl Douglas.
Lesotho was represented by Ma...
On Thursday afternoon 6 March 2014 at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Using infographics in the classroom – create an infographic using Easel.ly’ presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet.
The webinar description
This webinar introduces the use of infographics in a classroom. Wikipedia defines infographics as ‘graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly’. Infographics are great for today’s v...
This is another guest post from Anthony Peters (@apeters522) who is an innovative English teacher from Parklands College in Cape Town. In a previous post Anthony shared his very successful Shakespeare QR code Scavenger Hunt Assessment activity done with Grade 9 students. This week we asked if he would share his lesson using Aurasma, the amazing, free, augmented reality app (for both iOS and Android devices) that can bring life to lessons. Thank you for your great sharing Anthony a...
Tomorrow (Wednesday) we have a really exciting guest post from Anthony Peters (from Parklands College) called ‘Aurasma Awesomeness’ coming up on this blog. In it Anthony describes an innovative lesson he created and completed using Aurasma last week. In preparation I thought I would explore Aurasma and then write something about this great app which is available on both Android and iPad devices.
What is Aurasma?
I first learned about Aurasma at Iste 2013 where I attended a couple o...
