MIEExpert Spotlight #5: Three MIEExpert teachers selected to attend The Microsoft Global E2 Teacher Exchange in Budapest in March…
SchoolNet SA would like to congratulate the three South African and Lesotho Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts for 2015/2016 who have been selected to attend the Microsoft Global E2 Teacher Exchange in Budapest next month. They will join and network with 300 MIEExperts from around the world at this exciting event.
These Global Exchanges are life-changing events. Last year we featured guest blogposts of these events from two of our MIEExperts:
‘My dream came true at E2’ – a report back ...Read more
The DG Murray Trust (DGMT) invites proposals for experiments that tackle school drop-out in South
Africa.
“We invite you – as well-known organisations in this field, or fresh new alliances – to design and
implement a programme focused on identifying Grade 8 and/or 9 learners who are at risk of dropping
out and putting in measures that reduce the rates of grade repetition and drop-out.
The project will be implemented over a period of 36 months through a phased approach.
We are looking for ...
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 #44
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Learning to read is one of the most important things a child will learn at school. Everything else depends on it. The best is to teach reading in such a way that children love it and they want to read for themselves. Free reading resources are always a teacher and a parent’s dream but of course, these are few and far between. In this post I will tell you about some of my favourite free sites.
1. Oxford Owl
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
I have only just discovered this fr...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
There are a number of great new Microsoft tools including Sway, Office Mix and OneNote Class Notebook as well as online Microsoft courses including Teaching with Technology and 21st Century Learning Design. Many of these tools and courses are available through the Microsoft Educator Community at no cost to teachers. The intention of the Microsoft Trainer Validation Workshops, which were held in Johannesburg in November 2015 and Nairobi, Kenya in December 2015, were to s...
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In order to both support youth media making broadly in iEARN and build on the experiences of educators and students from AdobeYouthVoices, iEARN-USA is announcing an iEARN ProjectsProduction and Exhibition Mini-GrantsProgram open to the entire network.
Any iEARN participants who are facilitating an iEARN project or who are participating in an iEARN project and would like to support a productio...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This is the fifth post in a series on using avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile, Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details. Previous posts can be accessed by clicking on the avatars tag on the blog here http://goo.gl/72Q0cu.
Today we look an interesting avatar site calle...
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 #38
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Why not join the Microsoft Educator Community (free) and connect and collaborate with teachers and ideas for the classroom around the world: https://education.microsoft.com/
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This is the fourth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Nosithembele Gcobo is a teacher at Sentile Junior Secondary School in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. She describes herself as ‘an innovative, dynamic teacher, ICT integrated and a TBBT – a transformed born before technology innovator!”
She was selected at the end of 2015 as one of South Africa’s 63 Microsoft innovative Educator Experts for 2016. She say...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are 20 that look useful for teachers.
Great Google posts #43
View more lists from Fiona Beal
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