ISTE-NASA Education Project Application Deadline, January 15
ISTE and NASA are collaborating to provide a great project for Middle and High School teachers who are enthusiastic about SPACE. The selected teachers will work together in groups to produce educational materials for teachers and students about the Earth’s magnetosphere. The final projects stand a chance to be featured at the ISTE 2012 annual conference and exposition, and may also be selected for publication on the NASA website.
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This is a guest post written by Lisa G who is an ITC teacher in Cape Town. Lisa was a Microsoft Innovative finalist in South Africa in 2011 and she keeps an interesting ITC blog http://icteducator.blogspot.com/. I saw this post on her blog this week and asked her if I could use it as a guest post. Last year I wanted to participate in World Maths Day but didn’t get registered in time. So, don’t be like me…prepare well in advance. You’ll need to start now!
World Maths Day is coming up on 7 March 20...
Here in South Africa the 2012 year has started and the Foundation Phase (Grades R-3) has started implementing the new CAPS curriculum. I thought this would be a great opportunity to draw your attention to 12 websites that have great reading material for your young learners.
1. Storyline Online
http://www.storylineonline.net/
This site is presented by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. This is an online video programme with their members reading stories aloud. Each story has some activity suggest...
Recently I have taken interest in integration the curriculum with Social Sciences so I started doing a websearch. Its amazing what treasures you come across when you do that. After looking through and bookmarking an enormous amount of sites including the Edublogs 2011 winner sites, I came across a social studies Ning site that had won one of the Edublogs awards.
http://sschat.ning.com/
After looking around the Ning I came across a family, the van Soyes, who will be taking a 400-day around-the-w...
I have found that sometimes a YouTube video spreads over to the side bar in a blog, so if you occasionally have that problem and don’t know what to do about it, please read on. I am going to explain how to change the width of the video so that it fits in to the body of the blog.
1. Open up the YouTube video that you wish to embed, and click on ‘Share‘ and then ‘Embed‘
2. Copy the embed code but when you have put it into your blog post (in the HTML part), change the ...
I always look forward in anticipation to the Edublogs Awards every year to see their choice of best blogs, wikis, podcasts, webinar series, social networks, Web tools, individual tweeters and group twitter hashtags. Initially potential winners from the categories are nominated, and then everyone votes. This is a big affair!
Took a look at the winners from around the world. It is a great way of keeping in touch with what is happening on the social networking scene. (By the way, wi...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
If you had told me several years back that the time would come when teachers around the world could share ideas in a group verbally, visually and virtually right from the comfort of their own homes, I would probably have laughed (to myself). But the day HAS come! I experienced it myself on Saturday 17th December. Bart Verswijvel from Belgium, one of the organisers of this International TeachMeet said, prior to the occasion, “On Saturday I will have more than 25 visitors co...
Isn’t it great when right here, in South Africa, you come across a site with lovely, free, downloadable worksheets in : Mathematics, English, Science, Environment, Health, Nutrition, Hygiene, Arts, Crafts and Colouring.
This site is called the e-learning classroom and it can be located at:
http://e-classroom.co.za/
When you explore the site you find so many excellent worksheets and other classroom aids.
Take a look. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!
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