An Exciting Pedagogical Opportunity for 11 schools in Cofimvaba
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka from SchoolNet
ICT4RED has partnered with SchoolNet SA to further improve the Professional Educator Development from eleven schools in Cofimvaba who will be receiving tablets next month when the school re-opens. Each teacher will receive a 10” Android device, a 3G option, HDMI and additional preloaded educational content.
SchoolNet SA will provide onsite training and support interventions to teachers and principals in all target schools starting i...Read more
We have two SchoolNet webinars coming up on the topic of Gaming in the classroom’. We are very pleased to announce that we have two distinguished overseas presenters for these webinars, Arjana Blazik from Croatia for the first one and Bram Faens from Belgium for the second one.
Arjana Blazik from Croatia
Arjana is well-known in many different international circles. I met her at the world finals on the Microsoft Innovative Teacher competition in Cape Town in 2010 where she represented Croatia with...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently I had the great privilege of attending my very frst ISTE Technology in Education Conference in San Antonio Texas. It is said to be the biggest EdTech conference in the world!. In South Africa a big conference numbers around 600, so to be thrust into the midst of a conference of 20,000 delegates inclusive of exhibitors, with well over 700 sessions and 150 additional workshops on technology trends, tools, and much, much more WAS quite overwhelming at times but always...
This is a guest post from the organiser of the TeachMeet at Elkanah House, Linda Foulkes, from her blog http://folklind.wordpress.com. Thank you Linda!
We had a wonderful turnout at the TeachMeet @ Elkanah House on Saturday, 8th June! Out of all the attendees we had thirteen presentations lined up for the morning. It is absolutely great to see so many teachers who are willing to share and collaborate with others. It was a very fruitful
morning for all concerned as we de...
Are you all ‘teched-out’ (a new Conference phrase we heard bandied about) after attending the SchoolNet2013 ICT in the Classroom Conference held in Bloemfontein from 2nd – 4th July? Have you returned home inspired and motivated to do more in your classroom in the ensuing days? Of course all conferences have their hiccups of one sort or another but the relationships formed and the learning that takes place in the space of three days definitely outweighs any downsides!
It was a b...
Greetings from the South Africa Google in Education planning committee. Recently, we announced the first annual Google in Education South Africa Summit to be hosted by SchoolNet South Africa and Parklands College on Sep. 26th and 27th, 2013. Registration is now open! We’re especially excited to announce William Florance from Google to keynote our event. Here is a link to the event website with all of the information: za.gafesummit.com
Request for presenters
We are hoping...
SchoolNet is thrilled to be hosting the Google Summit in Cape Town on 26th and 27th of September 2013. These summits are held all over the world very successfully by the Ed Tech Team from the USA, but this is a first for Africa. The summit aims at K-12 teachers and Higher Education. You can read more and find out how to register on the website created especially for the event. http://za.gafesummit.com. The team will be bringing out a grand array of speakers as well as some Google engineers – but they a...
We are running a three part series on the popular topic of Educational Gaming. Today we look at some of the inspiring ways that teachers use Gaming in Education.
Name: Inspiring Educational Gaming projects
Summary: In this webinar you will hear about amazing gaming projects created by teachers in South Africa and further afield.
Presenter: Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet
Recording url: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p4maekzsobv/
Here is a Slideshare of the PowerPoint used in this prese...
Last week our webinar was entitled ‘Did you know PowerPoint could do all this?’ where we looked at 10 uses of PowerPoint apart from the normal use of making a presentation. This week we look at Part 2 of the series entitled ‘Even MORE amazing uses of PowerPoint’. Do we realise the potential that lies within this Microsoft product? You’ll be astounded to see how many more uses there are for PowerPoint and that it could be one of the most powerful and diverse applications you use.
Name:Even MOR...
