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 . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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We are pleased to announce that our next free webinar, ‘A Roadmap for Teacher Professional Development’ will be held on Thursday 11 May at 3:30pm. Our speaker will be Ronelle Klinck, a MIEExpert from Johannesburg and a Teacher Ambassador with Microsoft South Africa. Ronelle has always been passionate about developing teachers and helping them work toward reaching their goals. “I would like to encourage teachers to see beyond limitations such as a lack of Internet connectivity ...
This is a guest post from Monique Franzen @moniquefranzsen. Monique is the Junior Primary IT Specialist at Bridge House in the Western Cape. She is also a Google Certified Educator and Trainer, and a Microsoft Innovative Educator. Monique has her own technology blog called Teacher Squeaks. After the recent EdtechTeam Google In Education Summit at Parklands in Cape Town, Monqiue created the hashtag #ZAedu as a place where South African teachers can gather on Twitter and share their stories. This p...
This is the fifth post in a series of posts about using Minecraft: Education Edition in the classroom. (The series of posts can be accessed at: ) In this post we take a look at lesson planning using Minecraft: Education Edition and we explore where to find ready-made lessons as well as how to create your own lessons using Minecraft: Education Edition.
There is a lot of buzz about using Minecraft in the classroom at the moment. Teachers have been experimenting with different ways to use it in the clas...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I have participated, with a class, in the full 12 month Global Virtual Classroom web design contest in the past http://www.virtualclassroom.org/contest.html and it was a really great collaborative experience using Google Sites. The good news is that they have introduced a much shorter 10 week option, known as the Global Virtual Classroom Mini, that takes place during the year. The following information about this is taken from the Global Virtual Conference wiki http://minigvc.wi...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently, in a professional development session, I introduced a group of educators to Microsoft Sway. They were delighted with the application after creating a Sway introducing themselves. The plan was to then join Microsoft’s great one-stop-for-all space, the Microsoft Educator Community, and add the Sway they had created to their profile. I thought I would capture this process in a blogpost.
What is Sway?
Microsoft Sway is Microsoft’s newest, creative, free, online ...
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 . The link to the back-dated posts is:
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This is the fourth post in a series of posts about using Minecraft: Education Edition in the classroom. (The series of posts can be accessed at: ) In a recent post about Minecraft: Education Edition, we explained what Minecraft: Education Edition is all about and why educators should use it in the classroom. We outlined some of the benefits that teachers who use Minecraft: Education Edition have found, namely:
1) Minecraft: Education Edition promotes engagement
2) Minecraft: Education Edition promot...
The 2017 ISPA SuperTeacher Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA). The competition is managed by the Digital Education Institute.
Who is eligible? ​
All educators currently teaching at schools throughout South Africa. The ISPA SuperTeacher Competition gives educators an opportunity to showcase their skills in using Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve the educational environment within their classroom, school or ...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers https://goo.gl/1GJeBN (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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