How Brescia House School is using Office 365 – and how your school can sign up
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
The AlwaysOn-Learning Solution, built using Office 365, has been implemented at Brescia House School to provide a portal for sharing resources, completing administrative tasks and encouraging communication and collaboration within classes. SchoolNet SA visited the school to speak to teachers, learners and the ICT coordinator to find out how this solution was helping them to integrate technology into teaching and to streamline administration. To read the case study visit this ...Read more
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
To date almost 3 000 people have received training at a Vodacom ICT Resource Centre including those who have attended Intel Getting Started, Microsoft ICT Skills for Teachers or Sizanani ICT Skills for Community members courses offered by trainers trained by SchoolNet SA.
Vodacom Centre Managers trained in setting up a blog and starting a TeachMeet
In October 2013 the managers of the Vodacom ICT Resource Centres learnt new skills to share with teachers in their communitie...
Submitted by Omashani
Naidoo of SchoolNet
Intel continues to
support Vodacom Foundation and Department of Basic Education in the ICT centres
in the proof of concept districts. Two Intel Getting Started training of
trainer workshops were held in the Free State and North West provinces.
Free State – Thaba Nchu
The training took place on 7 – 8 September 2013. SchoolNet’s trainer, Mr
Daniel Maedi found the laptops were connected and ready for training. Of the
expected 22 educators only 12 ed...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
In this scenario I would like to teach a Grade 8 or 9 class how to easily summarise a video using the fantastic free, online application VideoNot.es.
Preparation
Ensure that each student has a Google ID so that they can link Videonot.es to their Google Drive which comes with a Google ID. (All free!)
Create a presentation on VideoNot.es to show your students.
Locate the online video URL you wish to use. In my case I want the students to create their own blogs in our next l...
On Thursday afternoon (24th October) at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Take note of Videonot.es’ presented by Fiona Beal. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Summary of the webinar
Meeting Name: Take note of Videonot.es
Summary: Videonot.es is a fantastic free tool to use with students (or personally) when summarising an online video. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a ...
This is a quick update from Gareth of Edge Campus about the tool Qurio that they are working on which will be freely available to teachers. They’ve been hard at work on this tool and it aims to make the lives of all in education significantly simpler when it comes to the area of assessment and testing.
Gareth reports
“Apart from making it freely available for all teachers, Qurio has also been making
steady headway into the lecture environment where it is being trialled on a number o...
SchoolNet and iEarn work together in several projects. Consequently we are highlighting the online Global Education Conference’s call for presenters.
The virtual iEARN conference last year was a great success with over 90 presentations by teachers and students All iEARN participants around the world are invited to meet again this year in the fourth annual Global Education Conference, a free week-long online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, to be h...
The Microsoft in Education Professional Development Team.have been hard at work and finally Microsoft in Education’s Professional Development programme is in full swing. The encourage you to register at www.piltrainer.com and join the community. The monthly newsletter from PIL Trainer highlights many issues and opportunities:
Developing students to be effective 21st century learners
If we are to safeguard our futures then we have an obligation to ensure that we are preparing our stud...
Mr Saul Pila from SchoolNet South Africa facilitated the first workshop for Women and Girls in South Africa sponsored by Intel Corporation. The participants comprised a group of visitors from Zimbabwe who are all experienced Intel trainers and a diverse group of members from the South African Women’s Entrepreneurship Network (SAWEN)
Thabani Khupe representing Intel Corporate Affairs who were the sponsors of the event welcomed delegates to the workshop. The course materials, Intel Learn: Easy Steps ...
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar this week on Thursday afternoon (24th October) at 3.30pm. Here are the details:
Meeting Name: Take note of Videonot.es
Summary: Videonot.es is a fantastic free tool to use with students (or personally) when summarising an online video. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. This application works in conjunction w...
