Lesotho’s teachers bridging digital divide at the Lesotho PIL Forum finals
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10 places to find reading and writing resources for primary school learners – part 1
Submitted by Fiona Beal
One of my passions is developing reading and writing in kids. Nowadays the web is full of the most amazing sites – is it any wonder that some of us feel that free internet should be a basic human right! Today I came across some amazing new sites and thought they would be great to share in a blog post.
I have written two previous posts about reading resources for primary school learners so would like to add the links to those in case you are interested in looking them up:
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Tech-savvy teachers shine in Durban at the 2012 SA Partners in Learning Forum Awards
This is a news release from Microsoft about the winners of the 2012 Partners in Learning Forum in South Africa. 20 finalists were chosen and they attended the finals in Durban. Microsoft sponsored the finalists to attend the South African Basic Education Conference and the winners were announced at a ceremony at the conference. Photos have been added by the editor.
Durban – 3 April 2012
Projects that encourage learners to tell stories digitally; find solutions to rehabilitate a local pol...Read more
How to send photos by email
This is a guest post from Lisa Gair who is the technology teacher at the Rock Academy in Fish Hoek. She originally placed this post on her school blog: http://rockacademynews.blogspot.com/, and since Lisa is a keen SchoolNetter I asked her if I could use her post on the SchoolNet blog. Thank you Lisa!
With us making increasing use of technology for class related projects, we are encouraging children and parents to take their camera’s on outings and to special school events, and then to email their...Read more
Announcing the finalists in the Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum 2012
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Join us to celebrate with Microsoft Partners in Learning and SchoolNet SA the 20 educators selected to attend the 2012 South African Partners in Learning Forum. (This competition was previously known as the Microsoft Innovative Teachers’ Forum).
2011 winners
Here is a selection of photos of the winners from last year’s Partners in Learning Forum 2011 that was held in Johannesburg. More photos can be found here.
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Our weekly Diigo bookmarks 26 March 2012
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How to shorten those long web addresses using bit.ly
There are many url shortening online programmes around, and I could never quite understand the need for them until I started sharing and networking! For example when using Twitter a long web address will use nearly all your 140 characters! The application I have tended to use is Bit.ly.com, so I thought I would do a quick share on how it all works. Below is a screenshot of the Bit.ly interface.
Whenever I start communicating with my PLN using Twitter, the first thing I do is open Bit.ly ...Read more
Take a look at our weekly Diigo bookmarks
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Have you been to a TeachMeet or iPadMeet in South Africa yet?
Recently I attended another of Elkanah House’s TeachMeets (Elkanah House is a school in Tableview, Cape Town), and I asked Linda Foulkes if I could use her blog post as a guest post. Linda is responsible for the training and testing of Grade 8 to 10 students on the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification. She is a Microsoft Office Expert and ICDL Advanced Trainer. In addition to her role as Staff Trainer and High School ICT Integration support (ICT Department), she also belongs to the Academic...Read more
Schoolnet completes a study on the use of Xbox Kinect to improve literacy scores – interesting findings…
This report is given by Janet Thomson the Executive Director of SchoolNetSA in South Africa. The study used Microsoft Xbox Kinect gaming in a primary school in deep rural KwaZulu-Natal to investigate its effect on second language English Literacy. The results are extremely positive.
Findings of evaluation study released – ‘Using gaming to improve second language English Literacy’
Research findings have just been released from a year-long study conducted by Mindset Lear...Read more
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