Put your school in the spotlight! Apply to be a Microsoft Innovative School
submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Applications are currently open for the Microsoft Innovative School’s programme. The Microsoft Innovative Schools program is “a leading change management program for district and school leaders to drive their own innovation processes while identifying partners, technologies and environments that further improve student learning.”
Schools with a track-record of inspirational leadership, innovation and successful implementations of change are invite...Read more
TeachMeets are short two-hour events where teachers teach teachers about what they are doing in their classes to promote technology. This could be a lesson or idea where they use iPads, tablets or PCs. We love to keep track of where this happens in South Africa on our TeachMeet-South Africa wiki (http://teachmeet-southafrica.wikispaces.com/) so that we can promote the TeachMeet and follow the event on Twitter. Consequently we would like to advertise the 17th TeachMeet in SA (to our Knowledg...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Teachers from South Africa
and Lesotho are invited to apply to be Microsoft Innovative Educator:
Experts to stand a chance of
winning a trip to the Partners in Learning Global Forum. To do this you will
need to fill in the online application form and upload a learning activity
which includes a two-minute video describing how you used technology to enhance
a lesson or project to the Partners
in Learning Network.
From the applications that
are received by ...
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We invite you to join two Microsoft Partners in Learning webinars to be held on the next two Wednesday afternoons. These will be of special interest to those who are entering Microsoft’s Innovative Educator Expert competition in South Africa where the first closing date is 3 June if you would like to be chosen as one of the 15 finalists who will be completely sponsored to the SchoolNet Conference in Bloemfontein in July 2013. (The final closing date for the Microsoft’...
There are many ways to get your class to write stories. This idea is to use YouTube videos to inspire writing. You could use these in different ways such as:
Talk about the structure of a story in terms that your age group understands
Show a video and then discuss the structure of the story or analyse the stages of a story
Watch the story and ask your class to rewrite it and change it.
1. Owl Stories by Martin Waddell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJe0WupukAw
2. Handa’s Surprise b...
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Little Bird Tales (http://littlebirdtales.com) has quickly become a favourite web 2.0 tool of mine for writing in the primary school, mostly because it’s so easy to create a high-quality product and you can draw your own pictures online plus add narration. The web site allows users to create podcasts with images — basically, narrated slideshows — in just three steps:
Users can upload photos to their Bird Tale or they can use an embedded drawing tool to draw images. Older students can add te...
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As the digital age and technology integration with lessons becomes more and more part of our daily lives, teachers look for web resources and new online materials as part of their preparation to help them with their teaching. This is definitely not an easy task for one needs to ‘live’ online in order to be able to keep up with what is available online. So I thought I would mention four very useful resource sites that teachers in South Africa should consider joining.
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The webinar summary
This webinar supports week four of the Digital Storytelling and the African Storybook Project course. We will be looking at popular creative, free applications especially appealing to students for creating and publishing stories online. We will also look at other ways of publishing digital writing online especially when the writing has been created using a PowerPoint presentation.
Webinar recording
The webinar attempts to pull together the different aspects for this week.&n...
There are so many really amazing, educational videos available on YouTube that can really motivate a teacher. These are often brief but powerful in the message expressed. Take a look at these few examples.
1) Connecting classrooms (1min 53secs)
Cathy Cassidy a Grade 1 teacher from Canada Gr 1 teacher gives ‘A brief description of my journey to connect my classroom of 6 and 7 year olds’
2) What most schools don’t teach (5min 46secs)
These famous names in technology such as Bill ...
