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Ten traits of the teacher I would like to be…

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  This is a guest post from Sean Hampton-Cole who teaches Geography to senior students at Crawford College in Lonehill, Johannesburg.  When I read this post on his blog http://ideasoutthere.posterous.com I really liked his thoughts and asked him if I could use it on our SchoolNet blog as a guest post. I have never met Sean, but it must be great being a student in his classes.   I would consider myself a good teacher if I were able to get even most of these right…   ☺ Set...

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Free SchoolNet online short courses for May and June for South African educators

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SchoolNet SA is always pleased to be able to announce its initiative of providing free short online courses to South African educators in technology integration. Please take note of the courses for May (Create your own wiki) and June (Get the most from Google Docs). Here are the details: Current course – SchoolNet’s ‘Create your own Wiki’ free online course (May 2012) If you are a South African teacher and would like to sign up for this free course, please click on the link b...

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The British Council partners with Schoolnet SA, Sangari SA and Softstart to establish IT hubs in South Africa

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This report is given by Janet Thomson the Executive Director of SchoolNetSA   The British Council has formed partnerships with SchoolNet South Africa, Sangari SA and Softstart to establish IT Hubs in South Africa as well as promoting a range of future projects for South African classrooms and communities. On Saturday March 31st the Zenzeleni Community Centre in Mpophomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands saw the opening of the first of the British Council’s IT Hubs in Southern Africa opened by the ...

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How to work with Dropbox

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Dropbox is a fantastic programme that gives you 2GB free if you install it on your computer. If you invite others you can get masses more free space. It really is worth downloading and installing Dropbox on to your computer. Once installed it makes a folder in your Documents folder. Whatever you place in this new Dropbox folder is aautomatically backed up on the web and can be accessed from anywhere. So just to have an online backup for your important documents is wonderful.The other marvelous part of D...

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A quick, free way to run meetings

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Submitted by Fiona Beal Today I came across this meeting site which said. “Meet Face to Face Online, hang out with co-workers and teams, run as many meetings as you want, no software or signups needed. Best of all, it’s free”. This sounded great – almost like a free group Skype but maybe with video? The site is called ‘meetings.io’ and the address is http://meetings.io/   Step 1: To start off you click on ‘Get a meeting room’.   Step 2: This takes you to a meeting room ...

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Have you thought about joining Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Network?

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Submitted by Fiona Beal Currently I am busy running a course for teachers that includes four of the Microsoft Free tools, namely AutoCollage, Windows Live Movie Maker, Songsmith and Photostory 3. These tools are fantastic to use for technology integration and can be obtained free by  joining the Partners in Learning Network, and downloading them. Have you taken a look at the new Partners in Learning Network? It really is quite amazing and has a wealth of resources available for teachers. Some of th...

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How to use Tweetchat for Twitter discussions

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Submitted by Fiona Beal It all started when Philemon Kotsokoane tweeted me (on Twitter) saying “… I’d like to follow last night’s chat on tweetchat.com How do I access all the chat & remove smart pausing message?#edchatsa”  Up to that point I had only been using a free programme called Tweetdeck for Twitter chats. I wrote a blogpost on how to use Tweetdeck last month  https://www.schoolnet.org.za/2012/03/why-not-install-and-use-tweetdeck-for.html  The reason I ...

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Two free SchoolNet short online courses for SA teachers in technology integration

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If you are a South African educator and would like to know more about technology integration by participating in short free online courses from SchoolNet, please think about joining our next two courses on offer for April and May. Microsoft’s Free tools part 1 (10 April – end April) If you are a South African educator and would like to sign up for this free course, please click on the link below to be taken to the sign up page. You will then be sent an email directing you to the online course p...

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SA teachers – why not join the conversation from 20h30 to 21h30 each Monday evening on #edchatsa?

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Submitted by Fiona Beal  Not too long ago I came across an article that posed the question ‘Is Twitter the Driving Force Behind Upcoming Educational Change?’ and that question constantly echoes in my mind. Twitter is an incredible tool for sharing, summarising, communicating, sending quick messages, using a hashtag for conferences and events – the list is endless. Undoubtedly, for the educator Twitter is a must. I, for one, have learned SO MUCH from my Twitter PLN. So, for this reason...

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