Three local Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts heading for Microsoft Global Educator Exchange (E2) in Budapest in March
Out
of the current 61 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts from South Africa and Lesotho, the following three teachers
have been selected to attend the Microsoft Educator Exchange (E2)
event taking place in Budapest, Hungary in March 2016:
Keshma Patel – Micklefield School, Western Cape
Moses Sello Sehoole – Mankuroane Technical and Commercial High, North West Province
Tracy Heath – Brescia House School, Gauteng
The three teachers have demonstrated a
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“The E2 – Educator Exchange is Microsoft in Education’s annual event recognizing and celebrating the achievements of educators who combine content, pedagogy, and technology in exemplary ways to prepare students for success. This event brings together the most innovative educators from around the world to collaborate, create, and share their experiences on how to integrate technology and pedagogy to advance learning, achieve student outcomes, and transform education.
If it is at all possib...
Can your Grade 10 – 12 Mathematics learners afford to be without this amazing free tool? Microsoft Math is an online space, available on all devices, where our South Africa Mathematics learners can practice, learn. collaborate and compete with one another using their smart phones or other devicesafter school hours. Here are some of the important aspects:
It is based on our CAPS curriculum for Maths
It provides thousands of maths exercises including examples of how to solve them.
This is a f...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Thursday 25th February Keshma Patel from Micklefield Primary, one of Microsoft’s local MIEExperts who is in fact representing South Africa at the Microsoft E2 Global event next week, invited me to present on the topic of ‘How teachers around South Africa are using Microsoft’s newer ICT tools in the classroom’. This termly gathering, which Keshma initiated last year, is for Grade 6 teachers from local schools to share classroom ideas with one another. The theme f...
1 Jan – 25 September 2016. Join and help to plant 100 million trees by 2017.
The ENO Programme organises the 3rd ENO Treelympics, olympiads for tree planting. They will last from 1 Jan to 25 Sep 2016. Their target is to plant 100 million trees by 2017, a pledge they made for Rio+20 Summit 2012. Sign up to participate on their website http://www.treelympics.org/. Find their Facebook page to interact and tweet #enotreelympics. Africa needs mor...
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:
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This is the seventh post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Mabore Lekalaka from Limpopo who is one of our Microsofts #MIEExperts for 2016. She has written a guest post showing her use of Office Mix in the classroom. Mabore is a keen user of Office Mix and she shares how she uses it for teaching Mathematics. Mabore was one of four teachers representing South Africa in 2015 in Seattle at the E2 ...
Google Photos is a photograph and video sharing and storage service by Google. It was announced in May 2015 but recently it has come under the spotlight as Google is retiring the ever-popular Picasa web albums in March 2016. All the albums stored in Picasa will need to be moved (if Google hasn’t already done it for you) to Google Photos https://photos.google.com/. While this is all exciting, new and fresh, there is one problem that is causing many a headache!
There’s a lot about Goog...
Most of my photo collections are stored on Google’s Picasa. Now I hear that in March 2015 Picasa will be no more!!! Help! So today I am researching Google Photos.
Google is retiring Picasa
The Google Picasa blog says: “We’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and des...
