The Eskom Expo for young scientists Awards Ceremony – why not participate next year?
The Eskom Expo
Young Scientists awards was recently held at the Birchwood Hotel in
Johannesburg. Hosted by the lively Proverb, the awards showcased the talented
scientists South Africa is producing. More than 150 finalists were selected
from entrants across South Africa. It was notable that for the first time the
number of girls that entered the Expo far surpassed the number of boys. The eskom Expo for Young Scientists is a
science fair, where students showcase projects based on their community
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Microsoft is looking for self-driven educators who are passionate about their careers and inspiring students with outside-the-box thinking. If you have a collaborative spirit, are resourceful and entrepreneurial, relish the role of being a change agent, and work to achieve excellence in education using advanced technologies and social media – then you may have what it takes to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIE). Applications for this amazing program close on 30th October so we encour...
This is a great competition that you do not want to miss out on. The closing date is 30th October. (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.) At the same time as this Microsoft is migrating its information content from the old site to Microsoft’s new site that comes into final effect on 30 October 2015! Your entr...
The Telkom Foundation will once again be
hosting a Connected Youth workshop in Mamelodi, Pretoria on the 26th
November 2015. Connected Youth is an initiative that has been growing in the
last couple of years. This workshop call on volunteers to help youth from local
communities grow their soft skills, digital skills and are provided with motivational
speakers to help encourage and grow our youth in skills to make them more
attuned to the needs in the job market.
The workshop will be hosted between...
Here is a message from Glenn Jones, GEG Leader of the Cape Town Central group about a GEG gettogether on Friday 30th October at Wynberg Girls’ High School at 3pm.
“Come join us for a GEG event at Wynberg Girls High School on Friday the 30th of October at 3pm, where you will get ¨a taste of project based learning¨. You will also learn how to build a PLN (personal learning network) using Google + and Twitter and be able to integrate Google Maps with forms, sheet...
This is a great competition that you do not want to miss out on. 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.
You can read about these two events here:
A report back on the Microsoft In Education Global Forum Dubai by Karen Stadler, a MIEExpert15 in South Africa http://bit.ly/1hFZOSZ
‘My dream came true at E2̵...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
There is one event an educator does not want to miss out on every year in South Africa, and that is the EdTechTeam’s Global Summit featuring Google for Education (https://za.gafesummit.com/). Every year this amazing team sweeps in with new brooms and they dust away all the cobwebs from one’s mind showing us what can be achieved not only by using Google Apps in the classroom but also by redefining our roles as teachers. “I am not just the teacher, ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Yesterday’s post was an introductory post about this great, free application, Storybird available from https://storybird.com. Today we look at the signing up process and how to get started,
1. Sign up your class
The first thing you’ll need to do is add your class or your classes as in my case. This takes a wee bit of time but once it is done its done. Your students won’t need email addresses. At your next lesson the class will each log in on their temporary passwo...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
If you want to give your class a great writing experience and you have computer devices for your class to use why not try using Storyboard http://storybird.com/? Storybird is one of the most popular free tools for digital storytelling in schools around the globe.
Wondering what it is?
Storybird is a free (for schools) online story creating program that lets one make visual stories in seconds. One of the things that sets Storybird apart from other creative writing applications i...
