Elkanah House runs with the TeachMeet idea in the Western Cape
This is a guest post by Linda Foulkes ot Elkanah House in Table View. 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 Department as Grade 8 Tutor Teacher. Linda absolutely loves spending her time researching social media and relevant techno...Read more
Microsoft South Africa recently combined with SchoolNetSA to introduce the first TeachMeet into South Africa. It was great to be part of this historic occasion. These gatherings of teachers are fast becoming a very popular form of professional development in the USA and in many European countries, in the field of technology integration in education. In European countries they are called ‘Teachmeets’ while in the USA they are named ‘Ed Camps’.
Microsoft’s advertisement of the TeachMee...
submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently we have had a virtual Global Education Conference taking place which was really great (http://globaleducation.ning.com/), but this led me to to think about other technology face-to-face conferences I have attended this year and how I have benefitted from them. To tell the truth I REALLY love face-to-face technology conferences. There is just nothing that compares with seeing friends and colleagues that you don’t normally get to see at these conferences, shaking their han...
Have you recently created a blog and you find it is look rather bare?
*Perhaps you would like to make it look more like a website?
*Would you like to change the background into something bright and appealing?
*Would you like to have a whole string of gadgets down the side?
We call the gadgets down the side ‘Widgets’ and they certainly do make our blogs more interesting and effective. Here is a slideshare of some of the things you can do to spruce up your blog.
Adding bells and whistles to yo...
What is Wallwisher?
Wallwisher is an online notice board that is incredibly easy to use and also incredibly useful as a classroom tool! Better still – it is an online collaboration tool to share ideas, resources, and thoughts on a particular topic.What I really like about it is that you can embed videos, photos etc. Best of all, your students don’t need an account in order to write on your wall.
How do you get started?
1.First of all go to http://wallwisher.com and sign up on the top right c...
I love Screencasting as a teaching tool. Up to now I have tried Jing, and even paid for Jing pro. Then I heard about Screenr and tried that. It seemed to me that Screenr did what Jing Pro does. Today the thought came to me that I should try Screencast-o- matic. (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/)
The site tells me that it is the original Screencast programme. That’s interesting!
There is a demo video to watch. I must say, after watching it there seem to be some very nice features in Sceencast-o-mat...
SchoolNet is offering two free online courses this month for South African teachers. Both courses are ‘work-at-your-pace in a support base’ courses and include a weekly optional webinar. The first offer is a four-week Schoolnet blogging course co-ordinated by Fiona Beal.
The second course is a twitter course. This is co-ordinated by Maggie Verster, our social networking guru in South Africa. SchoolNet is partnering with Maggie and is providing the webinar platform for weekly webinars over fo...
