Thembelihle Primary School embraces Intel’s ‘Getting Started’ Training
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka
Thembelihle Primary School is situated in KZN Midlands, Central Howick. The School Management Team bought laptops for the staff including digital data projector per classroom. The laptops are loaded with the latest software i.e. windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013. The training consists of nine educators from the Primary school and two educators from the Pre-Primary school. The first session started on a high note and with lots of enthusiasm as teachers were looking for...Read more
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet
Intel® SA recently sponsored training for Free State principals which included over 50 schools with a whopping total of 170 delegates from the South African Principals’ Association. The South African Principal’s Association (SAPA) is an organisation that brings principals into a professional learning community where current issues facing teachers are discussed. It also provides principals with invaluable support material, collegial interaction and...
This is a guest post from Karen Stadler who is the ICT Integrator at Elkanah House Senior Primary in Table View. This post appeared on her excellent blog All Things ICT. I asked Karen if I could use it as a guest post because Elkanah House Senior Primary is the epitomy of blogging in the school environment. The Principal, Arthur Preston, has a blog, both ICT teachers have blogs and the different grades have blogs. It seems there is also a Library blog and a Sports blog. All the known links will be shown ...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
If you have not yet uploaded your learning activity to the Partners in Learning Network and applied to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert you have until 30 September to do so. From the entries that are received from South Africa and Lesotho, teachers will be selected to attend the Global Partners in Learning Forum taking place in Barcelona, Spain in April 2014. This year we are looking for teachers who have produced a creative and engaging learning activity AND who...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I discovered this Freemake video converter by accident the other day, tried it out and really, it is amazing. You can download any video in a number of different formats. Thank you Freemake! Up to now I have been using Keepvid to download YouTube videos, but this Freemake application goes further in that you install it on your computer and you can download any web video (not only YouTube videos) it seems in a number of different formats depending on what you choose.
For the exam...
The Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference is the world’s first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, and more. The conference is being held over the course of three days, September 19-21, 2013, and is free to attend!
What can you expect?
Steve Harragon (http:/www.stevehargadon.com) writes:
”Our first ever Global STEMx Education Conference starts this Thursday, and it’s going to be AWESOME. We have 178 accepted practitioner sess...
The Google in Education K-12 summit, which is being hosted by SchoolNet and Parklands College at Parklands College in Cape Town on 26th and 27th September, is just around the corner! We are all very excited about this event and the potential it holds for the South African educator. Have you registered? (http://za.gafesummit.com) In this email we want to emphasise the Buddy System that the Ed Tech Team have agreed to for any new registrations, and also point your attention again to the optional Pre-Summi...
On Thursday 12th September we held a SchoolNet webinar presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet entitled ‘Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one…’. The webinar took place at 3:30pm. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Presentation
Fiona’s presentation is given below via Slideshare and you can download it if you wish to.
Let’s create a Learnist board from Fiona Beal
Summary of the webinar
Name: Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creati...
Do you sometimes just feel like writing a particular email to get it done even though it is only due to be sent in a few days time? I often land up in situations like that and I have discovered a really great Chrome extension that facilitates this. It is called BOOMERANG and it works with Chrome or Firefox.
What is Boomerang for Gmail
This is a gmail inbox management tool that not only allows you to schedule the sending time of your emails but also has a number of other features:
With regard to sche...
Easybib is a free Chrome extension that has two useful functions:
The first is to tell you whether a website is credible or not. If the source has not yet been evaluated Easybib will let you know.
Its second function is to enable to to provide a quick citation of your sources in a bibliography. The bookmarklet will create a properly formulated citation for you.
I really like the Easybib website that gives a clear description of how to evaluate a website. It has been embedded below. The website gi...
