Thembelihle Primary School undergoes Intel’s Getting Started Training
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka of SchoolNet
Thembelihle Primary School is situated in Howick. Their Management Team decided to buy laptops for the staff including a 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 ...Read more
Submitted by Omashani NaidooEkukhanyeni High School won professional development training at Intel’s One Day Conference in KwaZulu Natal. Ms Hlengiwe Mfeka facilitated the training which was attended by 14 educators who were very enthusiastic and looking forward to learn.
The session started with introductions and the educators enjoyed the manner in which it was done. Each person was asked to give an adjective beginning with the first letter of their name which describes their character which wa...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo
PG Bison, through Infundo Consulting, sponsored training for teachers in the Ugie area in the Eastern Cape. Ugie High was used as a venue and although there was enough computers for all the teachers, not of them worked properly. However stable access to the Internet was a pleasure and this allowed teachers to engage more fully with the course and understand how to perform searches, send and receive emails and that there was nothing to it at all!
Sixteen teachers atte...
Submitted by Nomty Gaba from SchoolNet
This is an Impact Story from the Pinetown Vodacom ICT Resource Centre showing how training in computer skills can greatly influence a person’s life. SchoolNet manages the Vodacom ICT Resource Centres for Vodacom.
Zamokuhle Buthelezi, a volunteer at the Pinetown Vodacom ICT Resource Centre and a Cisco trainer, says that the centre has had a great impact on his life. He started volunteering at the centre in March 2012 and in April 2013 he was nominated by the P...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo
If you are a teacher of students aged 13 – 19 please think about joining our Adobe Youth Voices programme with a group of students – even if you need to form a club in order to do this. Create media with the free products and free online training from Adobe headquarters that we supply.
All teachers and learners who meet all expectations will go into a prize draw to win great prizes and a trip to the next IEARN confere...
This post is a reminder about the upcoming Google Summit
hosted by SchoolNet and Parklands at Parklands College in Cape Town on September
26th and 27th. This is a first of its kind in Africa and well worth attending. The
early bird fee is unfortunately no longer available but we would love you to register
to attend and find out more about how Google Apps for
Education and other Google Tools can be used easily and freely in an educational
institution to promote student learning in K-12 ...
Unfortunately the webinar scheduled for today, Thursday 1st August at 3:30pm, on Mindmapping using the iPad and other devices has been postponed till further notice. Our speaker Carolyn Bruton had an accident with her laptop yesterday whereby the screen shattered and it has to be sent in for repair. We will let you know in due course when this webinar will take place.
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Name: Mindmapping using an Pad and other devices
Summary: Carolyn says. “We will examine the development and ...
What I love about using Google Chrome as a browser is the
way it makes browsing so efficient and easy. There are so many very useful free Chrome extensions that you can add to your browser to have everything you need right at your finger tips. I installed a useful Chrome extension today called ‘Read&Write with Google Docs’. This is really designed for students, but I want to explore it
and discover all its benefits.
What does Read&Write with Google Docs do?
This...
Last Wednesday we were very fortunate to have a guest presenter from Belgium, Bram Faems speaking on our SchoolNet/Microsoft webinar on ‘Changing seats: Quiz creation using Power`point and game coding using Kodu’.
Changing seats: quiz creation and game coding to activate pupils (Bram Faems)
Summary: Variation in teaching methods keeps students “awake” and concentrated. Playing games and quizzes can be a nice variation on the traditional lessons for your p...
