These are lovely stories that are beautifully illustrated that you can use in your reading lessons.
“The hare is a popular and clever character who pops up in many traditional (and modern) stories. This month we showcase some of the tales we have on the website about the hare, and especially about the mean tricks he plays on other animals. (Although surely nothing is worse than the joke Rooster plays on Hare!) We hope you’ll be inspired to translate and share the stories, and also to add your own st...
Warren Sparrow from Rondebosch Prep is a keen Microsoft user at his school. He is one of the Microsoft MIEExperts from South Africa in 2015 and attended the E2 Global Teacher Excahnge in Seattle alaong with three other South African MIEExperts. At the SchoolNet Conference he gave a number of presentations highlighting his use of the various Microsoft applications. He has shared two of these with us.
1) An introductory video about Office Mix
Office Mix is an easy way to take your PowerPoint p...
The 32nd annual Standard Bank/IITPSA Programming Olympiad will be the first one to be offered online. Schools will be able to log in on Friday 14 August and take part right through the day. For schools wishing to use it as an internal competition, the Olympiad will be available from 14 to 21 August.
“It is not that easy to offer the Programming Olympiad online” remarked Olympiad manager Peter Waker. “Learners use a range of computer languages including C++, Delphi, Java, Pa...
In the previous blogpost we introduced Google Drawing and showed how to use it to create a postcard. In this post we encourage you to join the Global Postcard Exchange project digitally using Google Drawing. This project is facilitated by Melissa Schur and they are currently looking for teachers around the world to sign up https://sites.google.com/a/sjvknights.org/4postcardex/.
A look around the Global Postcard Exchange site answers any questions one might have:
Who is welcom...
Google Drawing is part of Google Drive. It is a powerful image creator and editor with a myriad of uses which include creating a chart or diagram to add to another file and painting an image. Google Drawing is great to use in the classroom. Here are just a few uses:
Create, share, and edit drawings online
Edit drawings online in real time with anyone you choose, and invite others to view your edits in real time.
Chat with others who are editing your drawing, from within the drawings editor.&nbs...
This was such great news about the South African Olympiad team that we thought we would mention it on our blog. All four members of the South African Team that took part in the 27th International Olymiad in Informatics in Kazakhstan will return with medals
Who was in the team?
The team that took part in the Olympiad consisted of:
Ulrik de Muelenaere from Waterkloof High, Pretoria
Yaseen Mowzer from Fairbairn College, Cape Town
Thomas Orton from Bishops, Cape Town
Robin Visser from St George’s Gramma...
Why not introduce your Grade 10-12 Maths students to Microsoft Math https://math.microsoft.com if they don’t know about it? This is a great free site for Grade 10-12 Maths students to use after hours either in groups or individually to revise their Maths content and get help with any queries. Teachers can use Microsoft Math to motivate, monitor, and track learning and skill levels, giving more specific and individual feedback to students.
Advantages of Microsoft MathOne of the big advantages ...
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..
Great Google posts this week #24
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On Thursday afternoon 30th July we held a webinar entitled, ‘How to use Microsoft Sway to profile teaching life’. Our speaker was Phuti Ragophala, Principal of Pula Madibogo Primary in Limpopo.who shared on how she uses Microsoft Sway to profile her teaching life.
The webinar description
In this webinar Phuti showed how to use Sway.com to profile teaching life. She says, “Sway is one of the recent apps by Microsoft which is very user-friendly. I use it to text messages, t...
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 posts for teachers this week #13
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These are lovely stories that are beautifully illustrated that you can use in your reading lessons.
“The hare is a popular and clever character who pops up in many traditional (and modern) stories. This month we showcase some of the tales we have on the website about the hare, and especially about the mean tricks he plays on other animals. (Although surely nothing is worse than the joke Rooster plays on Hare!) We hope you’ll be inspired to translate and share the stories, and also to add your own st...
The 32nd annual Standard Bank/IITPSA Programming Olympiad will be the first one to be offered online. Schools will be able to log in on Friday 14 August and take part right through the day. For schools wishing to use it as an internal competition, the Olympiad will be available from 14 to 21 August.
“It is not that easy to offer the Programming Olympiad online” remarked Olympiad manager Peter Waker. “Learners use a range of computer languages including C++, Delphi, Java, Pa...
In the previous blogpost we introduced Google Drawing and showed how to use it to create a postcard. In this post we encourage you to join the Global Postcard Exchange project digitally using Google Drawing. This project is facilitated by Melissa Schur and they are currently looking for teachers around the world to sign up https://sites.google.com/a/sjvknights.org/4postcardex/.
A look around the Global Postcard Exchange site answers any questions one might have:
Who is welcom...
This was such great news about the South African Olympiad team that we thought we would mention it on our blog. All four members of the South African Team that took part in the 27th International Olymiad in Informatics in Kazakhstan will return with medals
Who was in the team?
The team that took part in the Olympiad consisted of:
Ulrik de Muelenaere from Waterkloof High, Pretoria
Yaseen Mowzer from Fairbairn College, Cape Town
Thomas Orton from Bishops, Cape Town
Robin Visser from St George’s Gramma...
Why not introduce your Grade 10-12 Maths students to Microsoft Math https://math.microsoft.com if they don’t know about it? This is a great free site for Grade 10-12 Maths students to use after hours either in groups or individually to revise their Maths content and get help with any queries. Teachers can use Microsoft Math to motivate, monitor, and track learning and skill levels, giving more specific and individual feedback to students.
Advantages of Microsoft MathOne of the big advantages ...
On Thursday afternoon 30th July we held a webinar entitled, ‘How to use Microsoft Sway to profile teaching life’. Our speaker was Phuti Ragophala, Principal of Pula Madibogo Primary in Limpopo.who shared on how she uses Microsoft Sway to profile her teaching life.
The webinar description
In this webinar Phuti showed how to use Sway.com to profile teaching life. She says, “Sway is one of the recent apps by Microsoft which is very user-friendly. I use it to text messages, t...
