Update on the exciting African Storybook Project…
Recently we featured a post on this blog entitled ‘Ten takeaways from the African Storybook Project Colloquium in
Stellenbosch recently’ The groundbreaking African Storybook Project (ASP) which is
being administered by Saide uses the web to revolutionize literacy education
for African children, and draws on research to strengthen the project. Viewers
are invited to use and contribute to open-access stories in multiple languages.
The project is an initiative of the South African Inst...Read more
South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is providing multimedia tablets and training to 160 teachers at 11 schools in the Eastern Cape as part of a project that aims to develop a mobile teaching model that can be applied countrywide. This very successful project is known as the ICT4RED project which aims to support education in rural areas using ICT’s and especially Android tablets. SchoolNet conducts the ICT4RED Teacher Professional Development in Queen...
On Thursday afternoon (31st October) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Symbaloo – a great classroom tool for all age groups’’ presented by Fiona Beal. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Summary of the webinarFiona says,
”In this webinar we’ll take a look at one of my favourite webtools, Symbaloo, and how it is used in the classroom. (Symbaloo is available on your browser and also as a free iPad and Android app.) It is a great curation/bookmarking tool with a unique, a...
14 November 2013, Johannesburg – They don’t wear capes in the classroom. But give them an educational problem that needs a dash of technology, and their super-powers emerge. They’re Microsoft’s Expert Educators and Mentor Schools for 2013.
Microsoft has just announced three educators and three schools in South Africa to take part in its Expert Educator and Mentor or World Tour Schools programmes. Members of both programmes become part of a global one-year initiative to recognise teachers and sc...
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. (I have added in pics of each presenter)
Linda says:“Even though this time of the year is extremely busy for most, it was well attended. Thank you so much to all who made the effort to join the event – I am sure that you all will agree that the meet was definitely worth atten...
This is a guest post from Hawa Patel. Hawa is an educator and ICT Co-ordinator at Roshnee Islamic School. She is a programmer and the District Teacher Moderator for GDE(D7). She is also the GDE CAPS Lead Trainer. Hawa was a Microsoft Innovative teacher finalist in 2011. Her school in Vereeniging is involved in an interesting project relating to games in education , so I asked her if she would write a guest post for the blog about it.
Hawa says:
” The Roshnee Islamic Primary ...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar this week on Thursday afternoon 14th November at 3.30pm. Here are the details:
Name: Symbaloo – a great classroom tool for all age groups
Summary: Fiona says, “In this webinar we’ll take a look at one of my favourite webtools, Symbaloo, and how it is used in the classroom. (Symbaloo is available on your browser and also as a free iPad and Android app.) It is a great curation/bookmarking tool with a unique, attractive and compact lo...
On 7 November 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Intel South Africa launched the Intel Explore and Learn Marketplace. This is great news for South African educators and learners. This post focuses on the report provided by Intel South Africa.
What is the Intel Explore and Learn Marketplace?
This is a new education solution that provides access to a vast repository of free and low-cost digital text books and learning resources. The solution, designed for learners of all ages, provides rich, interac...
On Thursday afternoon (7 November) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Using Mind Mapping software in all subjects’ presented by Dr Ron Beyers, Managing Director of Young Engineers and Scientists of Africa. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Summary of the webinar
This is Dr Beyer’s description “If your brain is like mine you will understand how some of your learners feel when it comes to making sense of the work. A good educator has the ability to make sense out of ...
This is a petition well worth signing and SchoolNet would like to promote this call. This class of learners s from Sinenjongo High School, Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton, Cape Town. There is so much our learners could achieve if they were able to access a site like Wikipedia on the Internet. Please could we encourage you to read this letter and then go to www.change.org to sign the petition. Petitioning Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, Telkom Mobile
Petition by Sinenjongo 2013 class
Open letter to Cell C, M...
