10 great Google posts this week #16
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Microsoft Math – this is one free service all Grade 10-12 Mathematics students in South Africa should be using…
In November 2014 the Nokia MoMaths name changed to Microsoft Math due to the acquisition of Nokia Devices & Services business by Microsoft. You can access Microsoft Math at https://math.microsoft.com
Can your Grade 10 – 12 Maths students afford to be without this service? This is a great, FREE site for students to use after hours either in groups or individually to revise their Maths content and get help with any queries. Microsoft Math provided extra motivation not too long ago i...Read more
Learning Gains through Play project – Gamification and Having Serious Fun
Submitted by Janet Thomson
The Learning Gains Through Play project’s ultimate outcome is that “learners are
equipped with foundational skills and attitudes for future academic success”.
The targeted skills are visual literacy skills including emotional literacy,
English oral communication skills, numeracy skills, gross-motor skills and
fine-motor skills. The attitudes of motivation to learn, enjoyment of learning
and confidence in learning are also sought but the focus throughout is o...Read more
What’s happening at the Teacher Centres around the country?
In August 2015, 131 delegates from teacher centres around South Africa attended the Teacher Centre Managers workshop in Johannesburg with an intention of “Building Functional Teacher Centres and Competent Centre Managers to Support Quality Learning and Teaching”. Over the past three months, SchoolNet SA staff have visited twenty seven Teacher Centres across all nine provinces to see if the centre managers were putting into action what they had learnt and to see first-hand what both th...Read more
Local talent recognized amongst peers around the world – media release about Microsoft’s E2 Global Educator Exchange
Johannesburg, 4 May 2015 – Four educators from South Africa joined 300 Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Experts and Student Ambassadors from around the world at Microsoft’s E2 Global Educator Exchange event. The event took place from April 29 to May 1 in Redmond, Washington (USA) at Microsoft’s headquarter. The educators were selected from amongst the most innovative in the world to attend the event, collaborate, create and share experiences with their peers on how to integrate technology and ed...Read more
SchoolNet free webinar on Thursday 28th May at 3:15pm ‘Use Adobe Slate to create gorgeous visual stories’ by Alan Goldberg from Digicape
We will be holding a short, free SchoolNet webinar on Thursday 28th May at 3:15 . Our speaker will be Alan Goldberg from Digicape who will share on using the acclaimed free iPad app ‘Adobe Slate’ for creating stunning visual documents. We invite you join us at the webinar.
Background to this webinar
Alan Goldberg, our webinar presenter for this week, says: “Named AppStore Editors’ Choice, Slate lets you turn your next report, travel adventure, school project or ne...Read more
GEG Meetup at Rondebosch High – plenty of sharing of ideas..
On Friday 24th April I excitedly made my way to Rondebosch Boys High to take part in a GEG (Google Educator Group) Meetup.
Wondering what GEGs are?
Google’s world-wide GEG initiative aims to grow voluntary groups of teachers in communities who will share their use of the various Google offerings with other interested teachers in their community. Here in South Africa our Google Educator Groups are growing steadily with a membership of 679 teachers since August 2014. To date we have 12 GEG...Read more
11 great Google posts this week #15
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This week’s useful Microsoft posts for teachers #6
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Enter the Microsoft tools competition “Use IT – Share IT – Like IT” for South African Teachers. Closing date 1 June…
We would like to remind you about Microsoft and SchoolNet’s exciting competition for teachers who are using one or more of the Microsoft tools mentioned below as part of their teaching. The closing date has been extended to 1 June 2015!
You could win a trip to the SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom conference in Durban in July or a Teaching with Technology Kick-Off session for your school by sharing your idea for using one or more of these Microsoft tools with other teachers and creating a...Read more
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