Count Down to the SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom conference plus some options…
There are less than two months to go until the SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom conference. If you would like to attend, but are wondering how you will cover the costs, below are some options to consider:
Apply to be a presenter
Presenters for sessions lasting an hour or more do not need to pay the conference fee to attend the conference and presenters of half hour sessions get 50% off the conference fee. Please consider sharing your leadership strategies, innovative lessons and technical know-how w...Read more
We are pleased to be holding a short, free SchoolNet webinar on Thursday afternoon 7th May, at 3.15pm. Our speakers will be one or two of the teachers who have just returned from the week-long Microsoft Global Educator Exchange in Redmond, Washington, at Microsoft’s Headquarters. They will be sharing on their takeaways from this amazing experience. This programme is open to all teachers in South Africa and it would be great if you could apply for the next opportunity later this year. We invi...
There’s a lot of excitement about the Learning Management System, Google Classroom, currently with new features appearing almost weekly. This is the first in a series of posts about this amazing application.
Are you a Google Apps school? Only accounts that are associated with Google Apps for Education are able to utilize Google Classroom. Here are some first steps in the process
1. Log in
Assuming you are a GAFE (Google Apps for Education) and you are logged in to your account go to http...
If you are a High School Maths teacher in South Africa, with Grade 10-12 maths students, you don’t want your students to miss out on using the free, online service, Microsoft Math, after hours! The servive is globally available at https://math.microsoft.com
It’s like having your own tutor at home! Students can can download Microsoft Math on their smartphones or tablets, and can even use it on their home laptops or desktops. Microsoft Math makes the learning experience personal, e...
We would like to invite you to register for our upcoming 2015 ICT in the Classroom Conference taking place in Durban from 1-3 July 2015. The venue is St Mary’s DSG in Kloof. Thisconference has always been very popular with educators, school leaders and ICT coordinators in the past and we are expecting another very successful three-day event this year. If you are keen to learn more about using technology in engaging ways in and beyond the classroom, this conference is for you! Our conference w...
This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda has contributed a number of blog posts on this blog in the past the most recent encouraging teachers to enter their students for the Microsoft Office Championships 2015 . Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com. Linda is currently attending the week-long 2015 E2 Global Educator Exchange in Redmond washington along with three other South African teachers!
Being chosen as ...
On Wednesday afternoon 22nd April 2015 at 3:15pm we held a webinar presented by Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft in which Victor aimed to show us how pedagogy and technology can work really well together as a mix.
The Webinar description
Victor advertised the webinar in the following way: “In this webinar, I would like to focus how Technology and Pedagogy mix as one of the units of the Teaching with Technology course, but I want to do this rather differently in a way of making it more in...
