Join the EdTechTeam for the 2016 South Africa Summit featuring Google for Education – at Dainfern College in September…
Learn how to use Google Apps for Education and other technologies to enhance your teaching in engaging sessions led by Google Certified Innovators and Trainers and local GAFE rockstars. Sessions will cover a wide range of applications for beginner and experienced GAFE users, for classroom teachers, administrators, tech coordinators, and anyone interested in learning how Google’s free suite of tools for education can enhance student learning.
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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:
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #40
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This is the sixth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Phuti Ragophala, the principal of Pula Madibogo Primary School in Limpopo.
Phuti is in her third year of being selected as one of South Africa’s Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts. Last year she was selected to attend the Global Forum in Dubai to interact, share with and learn from innovative teachers from other countries. She was also ...
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One Drive is a free Microsoft application that gives you free access to a range of Microsoft Office products. Have you registered for One Drive? https://onedrive.live.com You’ll receive 5GB of free storage.
I discovered recently that it is a great way to display students’ stories (or whaever else) that are written in PowerPoint, online by uploading them to PowerPoint online in Microsoft. I tried this out with a Grade 2 class. There is a wonderful Literacy...
The Computer Olympiad (http://www.olympiad.org.za/) has announced its new talent search for 2016. This is a great free contest for schools to consider.
1. COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
Talent Search is a free contest to develop Computational Thinking; the kind of skill you need to take IT, CAT, Maths and Science. At the same time it will identify learners with potential. That is why many schools use it for sub...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers.
Great Google posts #45
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This is a message from Vidcode. It brings with it some great opportunities for teachers and classrooms in 2016.
“President Obama recently announced Computer Science for All, a new initiative to bring computer science education to classrooms across the U.S. Vidcode is overjoyed that the White House has put their support behind computer science for every student!
We’re thrilled to be part of this movement to empower all students to use and connect computer science with their friends and hobbies. ...
Guest post submitted by Sharon Ries of CozaCaresDigital Learning Day is being celebrated across the United States today, Wednesday 17 February. Other countries around the world have been encouraged to submit information about their events today as well, on the Twitter handle @OfficialDLDay and the hashtag #DLD. CoZa Cares Foundation is choosing to launch the 2016 ISPA SuperTeacher Competition on this day – and so a little balloon will be featured over Johannesburg on the DLD map of the w...
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For some time now I have been interested in getting to grips with creating ‘Hyperdocs’. HyperDoc is a term used to describe a Google Doc that contains an innovative lesson for students – a 21st Century worksheet and more. The name was penned by Lisa Highfill and Sarah Landis. It’s all about hyperlinking your docs for amazing learning experiences! With one shortened link, students can access a lesson that contains instructions, links, tasks, and more.
So w...
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:
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #39
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