Four South African educators to attend Google Teacher Academies (London and Stockholm) in December!
The very successful first ever in Africa Google in Education Summit, presented by the International Ed Tech Team from the US and hosted by SchoolNet and Parklands College at Parklands in Cape Town, has been and gone…leaving behind a trail of excitement about the possibilities of using Google Apps effectively in the classroom. At the Summit there was an information session on opportunities for teachers with Google apart from using the free Google Apps in the classroom. The two opportunities...Read more
This is a guest post from Warren Sparrow from Rondesbosch Boys Preparatory School in Cape Town – from his blog
1) Emaze
This application is really cool. Emaze can be found at http://www.emaze.com/
It allows you to make online presentations.
You can select a theme and then add text, images and videos.
It is really easy to use!!
This is the video demonstrating how to use Emaze
This is Warren’s Maths video made with Emaze
http://app.emaze.com/101759/maths
2) Animoto
Animoto is a...
On Thursday afternoon (31st October) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘7 more unexpected (and GREAT!) ways to use PowerPoint in your classroom’’ presented by Fiona Beal. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Summary of the webinarIn this webinar we will look at the very versatile application – PowerPoint – for at least five more great ways on how to use it effectively in your lessons – especially the animation part of PowerPoint. The Internet is a great resource of won...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet free webinar this week on Thursday afternoon 7 November at 3.30pm with Dr Ron Beyers, Managing Director of Young Engineers and Scientists of Africa, as our guest speaker. Here are the details:
Webinar details
Meeting Name: Using Mind Mapping software in all subjects
Presenter: Dr Ron Beyers
Invited by: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When: Thursday 7th November 2013 at 3:30pm
Time Zone: (GMT+02:00) Harare, ...
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While browsing around on one of my favourite applications, Twitter, I came across a couple of interesting tweets inviting folk in the UK to a TeachTweet! I know about TeachMweets (and love them) but TeachTweets?! Well luckily for me, it is all happening tonight (31st October) so I’ll be there virtually to investigate! It is all part of the #ukedchat Twitter chat.
The TeachTweet website
There is a TeachTweet website (http://uk...
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Twitter is definitely a teacher’s best friend! The ideas…and CREATIVE ideas at that… that come from one’s Twitter PLN are phenomenal. For example in a recent tweet I saw that Mark Anderson (@ICTevangelist) recommended #FF (which means ‘follow’) @ict_magic and @teachertoolkit. Now I know the wonderful @ict_magic (Martin Burett) virtually and follow him, but didn’t know @Teachertoolkit so I look...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a webinar this week on Thursday afternoon 31st October at 3.30pm. Here are the details:
Name: Five more unexpected (and GREAT!) ways to use PowerPoint in lessons
Summary: In this webinar we will look at the very versatile application – PowerPoint – for at least five more great ways on how to use it effectively in your lessons – especially the animation part of PowerPoint. The Internet is a great resource of wonderful ideas. Some of the ideas in ...
There’s going to be a TeachMeet at Elkanah House this coming Saturday from 10-12 and you are invited! Come as a Keen Bean (presenter) or an Enthusiastic Lurker (participant). These TeachMeets ar always wonderful and I learn so much.
Linda Foulkes who is organising the TeachMeet says on Facebook ‘We have a wonderful line up of Keen Beans for the upcoming TeachMeet@Elkanah on the 2 November – don’t forget to sign up – just fill out this form to join us!http://goo.gl/xQm...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
The African Storybook Project is well under way to scale up the availability of free reading material for African children in Grades 1-3 through the digital medium. (I have written about this project in previous posts on the SchoolNet blog.) It is planned that the African Storybook website that will house this collection of stories will be released in early 2014. This post serves to highlight the African Storybook Colloquium which was held at Stellenbosch University on 17-19th O...
