Teachers, Brescia House invites you to a free party, IT style on 15th March! If you are in Joburg please register!
Brescia House is having one of their wonderful TeachMeets again
on Tuesday 15th March, from 3pm – 5pm. They call it “a party, IT style!” (Sounds like fun!) This will be an opportunity to celebrate and share
curriculum and technology integration ideas. This is a free event but please pre-register. Their advert ends off with ‘Party surprises
in store!’ If you live in the Joburg area you can’t afford to miss this event!
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You can use Sway to create and share interactive reports, presentations and personal stories.
In this webinar @MeganRademeyer and @VictorNgobeni will show you how to create a Sway and they will give you some ideas for using this fun, free presentation tool in your classroom. Guest presenter @PhutiRagophala, a current Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, will show us some of her Sways and how she’s used this tool in the classroom and to spread her ideas.
Time: 3pm (S...
Submitted by Charli Wiggil
This is a guest post from Charli Wiggil (@wiggs2010) Deputy Principal at Eden College in Durban. Charli is one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2016. You can read more about Charli at https://about.me/CharliWiggill
Should I upgrade to Windows 10?
Over the past few months, we’ve all been inundated with
offers popping-up on our screens recommending we take advantage of a free
Windows 10 upgrade. The pop-ups include the upgrade button, the tantalisi...
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:
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/
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #37
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This is the third post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Keshma
Patel, a Grade 6 teacher at Micklefield Primary School for girls in Cape Town
and a 2016 Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, believes that: “as a teacher your learning
should never end. Education is ever changing. You never have a dull moment.
There are always new goals to set, new ideas to explore and different ways to
inspire young minds.” ...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are 18+ that look useful for teachers.
Great Google posts this week #42
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Next Vista for Learning (http://www.nextvista.org/) is a wonderful video sharing site directed at teachers and students. Videos on Next Vista are made by teachers and students for teachers and students. Throughout the school year Next Vista hosts video creation contests for students and teachers. The owner of this site is Rushton Hurley, a marvelous motivational education speaker who has been out to South Africa frequently to speak at various conferences for teachers. I have heard him twice at Google for...
How do you transform mathematics from the most disliked subject in school to every student’s favourite pastime, even beyond school walls? By introducing Microsoft Math! Microsoft Math is a free, online high school learning support service for Grade 10-12 students in South Africa and globally, provided by Microsoft. This is a 24-hour service that will benefit Grade 10-12 Maths learners enormously. It is available on any device and it provides:
thousands of Maths exercises
examples of how to sol...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Often, after a holiday break, teachers want to get their students writing about their holiday. A really fun way to do this is to get them to write their report back in Microsoft Word using a selected template.
I discovered a great template for this in the fabulous Oakdome site.The template is in the form of a cell phone! I tried this out on a Grade 4 class and they loved the experience!
The writing task
“Describe, in around 200 words or less, one or two events from your su...
