MIEExpert Spotlight #25: Matthew Hains from South Africa reports back on his recent Microsoft E2 Exchange experience in Toronto, Canada
This is the 25th post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight” for South Africa. The tab with all the posts
can be found at: . Today we focus on Matthew Haines. Matthew is an MIEExpert Educator in South Africa, and he was recently selected to attend the E2 Global Exchange in Toronto along with four other South African teachers. Matthew teaches ICT at Crawford College, Sandton. He has been teaching for 16 years.
Back row: Freddy Chireka, Justin Harper, Peter De Lisle, Amandla Vinjwa
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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 24th post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight” for South Africa. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Amandla Vinjwa. Amandla is an MIEExpert Educator in South Africa, and he was recently selected to attend the E2 Global Exchange in Toronto along with four other South African teachers. Amandla is a primary school teacher at Sivile Primary School in Cape Town, Western Cape. He has been teaching for 8 years.
What is the Microsoft E2 Global Exchange?
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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/4Yu8cB (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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The E2 – Education Exchange is Microsoft in Education’s 3-day annual event recognizing and celebrating the achievements of educators who combine content, pedagogy, and technology in exemplary ways to prepare students for success. The aim of the E2 is to encourage educators to be inspired, empowered, and equipped to make transformational changes to classrooms everywhere. The E2 is currently taking place in Toronto Canada. Five South African MIE Expert educators were selected to attend this e...
Microsoft’s E2 – Education Exchange is opening its doors and inviting all educators to join them on March 22, 2017, at 9:00a.m. EDT (this will be 15:00 in South African time). ! This FREE, online event is designed to provide insight into the latest trends in education. You are invited to learn from education thought leaders, innovative educators, and students – to be the change in your school or system and make what’s next!
Think about inviting a bunch of educator colleagues and friends over fo...
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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On Wednesday 15th March at 3.30pm that Megan Rademeyer and Angela Schaerer presented a free Microsoft Virtual Academy webinar from the Microsoft Office in Johannesburg on ‘Minecraft Education Edition’. Microsoft was originally developed in 2009 by a Swedish game designer Markus” Notch” Persson, and later fully developed and published by Mojang. It became one of the most popular games in the world. In 2014 Microsoft bought this game and launched an Education in Edition in 2016 as they sa...
The province of the Eastern Cape is plagued by historical backlogs in the provision of universal access of basic services. There is a greater demand now more than ever before to close the rural- urban digital divide in Eastern Cape.
The MEC of the DRDAR, the Hon. Mlibo Qoboshiyane in his 2014/15 policy speech, pronounced that the department, in partnership with the Department of Education and other stakeholders, would support at least 100 rural schools with broadband connection. Seven s...
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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