An exciting TeachMeet in East London hosted by Stirling Primary School
Submitted by Fiona Beal
If you have ever attended a TeachMeet you will know how exciting it is to hear everybody’s 3-5 minute ideas. TeachMeets are a fantastic opportunity for meaningful and enjoyable professional development. East London has been very consistent with their TeachMeets (hosted either by Stirling Primary or Clarendon Primary) and on October 27th Stirling Primary hosted its annual TM starting at 14:30 in the afternoon. They had 50 registrations and lucky draw prizes to the value of a ...Read more
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:00 pm
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Panelist(s) Info:
Dwayne AltonDirector of IT Support, School District of Lee County (Fla.)
John Allen from Google for Education
Duration:1 hour
Description:
“Personalizing Learning With Google Apps and Chromebooks
A District Administration Web Seminar
The School...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions recently, these are the ten that have caught my eye so far.
1. Microsoft Releases New Office Extension For Google Chrome
http://goo.gl/kc5ZLa
This is great news for Chrome users and even Chromebook users. Microsoft Office team released, a few days ago, a new Google Chrome extension that lets you create and open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Sway documents using Office Online right from the Chrome browser. Yo...
The free Microsoft webinar scheduled for Thursday 12th November features the free PowerPoint 2013 add-in called ‘Office Mix’ that enables you to easily create videos to share with your class.
Time: Thursday afternoon 12 November at 3pm – 3:45.
Presenter: Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngebeni
Topic:Office Mix
Explanation: “Office Mix is a free add-in for PowerPoint 2013. It is a powerful tool that makes authoring and sharing of online lessons / presentations simple. It allows you to make them ...
This is a great program that you do not want to miss out on being selected for. The closing date has been extended to the 6 November. (Last year South Africa selected 16 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts. Four of them were sent to the Global Forum in Dubai while another four were sent to the E2 Global Educator Exchange in Redmond, Washington.) Microsoft is migrating its information content from the old site (Microsoft Educator Network) to Microsoft’s new site called the Micros...
SchoolNet’s Omashani Naidoo, was recently named one of the Intel® Education Visionaries, an elite group of approximately 40 education leaders from all over the world who are exemplars for global education transformation; to inspire and share best practices with other educators, administrators and parents worldwide; and help Intel design the future of education.
Omashani was selected as an Intel Education Visionary on the basis of her insight, passion and proven experience as an agent of change in ed...
What is Microsoft Math?
Microsoft Math is an online space where our South Africa Mathematics learners can practice, learn. collaborate and compete with one another using their smart phones after school hours. They can also use the program on a tablet or a laptop/desktop.
Here are some of the important aspects:
This is a free, online, high school learning support service
It provides thousands of Maths exercises including examples of how to solve them.
It provides theory and tests pre...
The Microsoft in Education team has some exciting news for you. We have launched the Microsoft Educator Community. This new community site is a combined experience of the Microsoft Educator Network and Skype in the Classroom. This site is a central destination where you’ll have access to over 1.5 million educators around the world, a fresh selection of professional development courses and resources, thousands of inspiring lesson plans, and access to live lesso...
In a blogpost in July () we mentioned that
Microsoft had announced their Microsoft Virtual Academy online courses for
teachers. In South Africa the Microsoft Virtual Academy has a branch called the
Microsoft Virtual Academy 4Africa . Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft and Megan
Rademeyer from SchoolNet have been holding webinars for teachers once a month on
this platform. These webinars cover topics that teachers will love and the
recordings can be listened to at any time:
Previous recordings
1) Appl...
