Professional development for KwaNdengezi Teachers in Using Digital Resources
The Pinetown Rotary Club has invested in providing schools in the KwaNdgenezi area of KwaZulu-Natal with harddrives containing educational resources, but they also wanted to offer teachers from their focus schools professional development and support to ensure that the resources are used to their full potential. SchoolNet SA was engaged to provide a comprehensive professional development programme for teachers to build their skills, knowledge and confidence in using digital resources in their lessons. In...Read more
Tuesday, 6 February 2018 is Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme is “Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you”.
At SchoolNet SA we encourage teachers to create communities of digital learners, but we also want to ensure that teachers and learners are safe online. We encourage teachers to play their part in creating a better internet for everyone, especially learners.
At the 2017 SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom Conference, Omashani Naidoo presented a se...
Congratulations to the following educators who were selected to participate in the E2 Education Exchange taking place in Singapore between 12 and 15 March 2018:
Amanda Calitz – Curro: Riverside
Charmaine Roynon – EDU 365 SA
Jonas Letsoalo – Kgetsa Primary School
Margaret Tracey – Hillcrest High School
Paula Barnard – eFundanathi & eZone at Wits
Xoliswa Mahlangu – Future Nations College
Charl Bloomberg – Curro: Waterfall&nb...
The water shortages in Cape Town have made all South Africans, particularly those living in the Western Cape, very much aware of the importance of saving water. But access to adequate, safe water is a global problem – we can both learn from ideas that are working in other countries, and our learners can contribute ideas of their own.
In February 2018, you can sign up to take part in the iEARN Water is Life project. As part of this global collaborative project, your students will be involved in ac...
SchoolNet SA has created a new professional development course called School Libraries in the Digital Age. It explores learning technologies and online tools to enable the setup of digital libraries in the most effective way possible. The authors of the course were aware that the National Guidelines for School Library and Education Services specify the use of Information and Communication Technologies, which are now referred to as “digital tools and resources”.
The course consists of fi...
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Do your learners have access to tablets or phones that they can use to create short films? Are you looking for an opportunity for your learners to express themselves in a creative and meaningful way? Why not ask them to create a two-minute video responding to the theme “In Another’s Shoes”.
A new nonprofit StudentVoice.org has just launched the Global Student Voice Film Festival. This is an English-language film competition open globally to st...
Three South African educators, Leigh Morris, Lindsay Wesner and Chaim Moch have come up with a great idea to get more South African teachers connected to Twitter. – the ‘12 days of Twitter’ challenge, and a regular Twitter chat.
What is the 12 days of Twitter challenge?
It takes the form of a Game Board Hyperdoc with 12 challenges, which shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes a day. There is one for people who are new to Twitter, which takes teachers through the entire process of getting on ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
There are different types of assessment methods that we use in our classes on a regular basis, depending on the assessment task at hand. Do you use any didital tools to carry out these assessments? In this post I’ll share a few ideas of some useful tools. But first, let’s review some types of assessment
Types of assessment
You are probably familiar with all of these:
1. Summative assessment: This type of assessment aims to estimate the learners’ success i...
The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at: this link: . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
How do you share links with others during
class or in a workshop? I have used several methods and thought I would document
and share some of them in a blog post.
SHARING LINKS IN A CLASSROOM SETTING
1. Use
Google Classroom
https://classroom.google.com/
I use Google Classroom with all my classes. Truth is, I love the application. Whenever
I have a class at school the first thing everyone does is log into their Google
Classroom account where everything I want to sha...
