Join the PIL Network – and enter their amazing competition…
What is the Partners in Learning Network?
Details of the Partners in Learning Network competition
There’s another super competition up for grabs for educators this time from Microsoft. This involves simply joining the Partners in Learning Network, inviting your friends and by so doing being in a draw for a new Windows Surface. Here are the details of the competition:
“Dear Innovative Educators
We are thrilled to offer you an opportunity to win a “Surface” for your school! “Surface” i...Read more
SchoolNet started its short free online courses for SchoolNet premium membership at the end of 2011 and since that time we have held at least seven such courses. In 2013 we have quite an array lined up for you and we are making a start with a repeat course which will be run in March. Take a look. Why not consider signing up?
Google for Professional Development short course
This is a free online three week course (a repeat course from 2012) and will be held from 4th March – 22nd M...
SchoolNet started incorporating weekly webinars into its programme in 2012 and now its time for the 2013 season to begin. We are making a start with a series of interesting Microsoft webinars. Unfortunately we cannot give the actual webinar URLs yet as we are waiting to be sent our Lync license so that we can use for these webinars. Consequently we won’t paste the dates in yet either suffice to say they will most likely take place on a Wednesday evening from 6:00 – 6:30pm starting in March. ...
In the past year, worldwide, a different kind of
professional development movement has started and become very widespread. This
type of professional development is called an EdCamp (mostly found in the US)
or a TeachMeet, a UK term. In South Africa we have adopted the UK term and have
been pleased to see the growth of TeachMeets. These are generally a type of
collaborative conferences lasting but a few hours, better known as an
‘unconferences’ since the attendees are the presenters and the f...
The Internet is getting so full of information these days that it is not surprising to see how many curating tools are emerging for teachers to use. Scoop.it is definitely one of my favourite curating tools. (Unfortunately with Scoop.it you are only allowed five free Scoop.its.) But how do you display a Scoop,it in an attractive manner on a blog or webiste? Today when I was surfing the web I noticed that some bloggers had lovely Scoop.it widgets embedded at the side of their blog which g...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After attending the TeachMeet at Somerset House Preparatory school in Somerset West last night, I left with a feeling of great hope for education in South Africa. The teachers who presented were so enthusiastic about what they do, and the ideas shared about how to make education inspiring and relevant made me wish I was back in the classroom!
Somerset Prep – a primary school that embraces BYOD
Somerset House Prep is a very go-ahead primary school nestled in the heart of the ...
Schoolnet is thrilled with its new logo which you will soon see displayed on all our offerings. The design of our new logo conveys a strong message about SchoolNet SA and the future:
Progressive: this is shown by the simple, modern design and the appealing font.
Diverse: in terms of what we offer and our target audience, shown by the range of colours
Focused on “School” because we aim to improve education in South Africa yet also placing an emphasis on “Net” because developing professio...
Submitted by Fiona Beal with excerpts from the amazing blog Bulldog Readers belonging to Julie Hembree of Seattle, a Global Forum finalist from the US.
Teachers, it is time to start preparing to enter Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Forum for 2013, best known as the Microsoft Innovative Educator competition. This competition takes place in 119 countries around the globe and culminates in the Global Forum where the world winners are revealed… being a winner in this forum will change your life...
