Microsoft Math – a free, not-to-be-ignored service via a smartphone for Grade 10-12 Maths students in South Africa
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Profile: ICT4RED Senior Trainer, Mrs Nhanha Tyembile, Principal of Zamuxolo Primary School
SchoolNet is pleased to present the profile of Mrs Nhanha Tyembile, Principal of Zamuxolo Primary School. Mrs Tyembile progressed rapidly in her technological and pedagogical journey from zero to hero in the space of two years; from being a novice in using learning technologies, Mrs Thyembile progressed to becoming a Senior Trainer in the ICT4RED project known as TECH4RED. Her colleagues in the project from both the CSIR and SchoolNet attribute her impressive successes in the field to her dedication an...Read more
10 useful Google posts this week #6
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions during this week and last week, these are the ten that have caught my eye so far.
1. 3 Good Chrome Extensions to Convert Web Pages to PDFs .http://goo.gl/I3GDt9 You could use these extensions to convert long articles ( for instance articles from Scientific magazines) into PDFs which I would usually download into my computer. In this way I have a PDF format of the article which I can acce...Read more
Get your South African students involved in the free Computational Skills Talent Search which is part of http://www.olympiad.org.za/
This is a message from Peter Wakker from the Computer Olympiad in South Africa
“Are you aware that apart from the Applications Olympiad and Programming Olympiad, we also run the Talent Search? The Talent Search is intended to identify, encourage, and develop computational thinking; the skill needed in Maths, Science, IT and CAT. http://www.olympiad.org.za/talent-search/
Computational Skills
How many learners at your schools have strong computational skills? How does that compare to lear...Read more
Webinar Recording from Thurs 12th March 3:15pm ‘Keep on track with OneNote Dock to Desktop’ by #MIEExpert Mabore Lekalakala
On Thursday afternoon 12th March 2015 at 3.15pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Keep on Track with OneNote Dock to Desktop’. This was presented by a South African #MIEExpert15 Mabore Lekalakala who teaches at a Primary school in Limpopo.
The webinar description
Mabore said, “There’s one incredibly useful feature in OneNote that is rarely used. It is the Dock to Desktop feature. This feature allows users to review, edit and summarise documents without leaving the OneNote page.” In ...Read more
Download and use Audacity on your desktop or laptop for audio podcasting
Submitted by Fiona Beal
If you are using a Windows PC Audacity is a tool you cannot do without to make audio podcasts in the classroom. Do you have it installed? Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages. You can use Audacity to record live audio. I love this application.
This post centres around downloading and installing Audacity
Step 1: Ask Google for an Audacity download
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SchoolNet Webinar on Thurs 12th March 3:15pm ‘Keep on track with OneNote Dock to Desktop’ by #MIEExpert Mabore Lekalakala
There’s one incredibly useful feature in OneNote that is rarely used. It is the Dock to Desktop feature. This feature allows users to review, edit and summarise documents without leaving the OneNote page. Along with reviewing this feature we’ll be looking at OneNote itself. OneNote allows users to organize and put all their notes in one place; from personal documents, lesson preparations, mark lists, pictures, recordings, learners’ tasks to question papers and memorandums. Learners can a...Read more
The free ‘ICTs to enrich Teaching and Learning MOOC’ from the African Virtual University opened yesterday – why not join in…
ICTs to Enrich Teaching and Learning MOOC now open
The African Virtual University (AVU) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have officially launched today ICTs to Enrich Teaching and Learning MOOC. Based on unique learning expectations and needs, participants will go through a wide variety of learning activities designed to help them improve.
The first module has now started and the second module will start on March 16th 2015.
The first module will explain you what ICTs are and help you understand...Read more
Profile: Microsoft #MIEExpert15 Kathryn Riva, teacher from Micklefield Primary in Cape Town
This is a profile of Kathryn Riva (@KathRiva), a Microsoft #MIEExpert15 teacher from South Africa. Kathryn has contributed a post on this blog before namely ‘My First Microsoft Sway and how I got started’. Visit her class blog at http://kidblog.org/MrsRsClass-14/ and her Grade 5 wiki at: https://micklefieldgrade52014.wikispaces.com/ Kathryn’s profile on the Microsoft Educator Network can be found at http://www.pil-network.com/profile/resources/93c9c707-803f-4fac-a53b-bc1e294a0b5e (y...Read more
Spread the word: Google Education On Air online, free conference for educators – May 8th and 9th. Register today!
This is an exciting message from Karen Walstra from the Google team in South Africa.
“Dear Google for Education user,
Hope you are well. I am writing to let you know that we just announced Education on Air, a free online conference for educators on May 8-9, 2015. (Time zone is US based)
Day 1 of the event will focus on “leading for the future” with sessions from educators, students, and other leaders.
On Day 2 over 100 educators will lead sessions on “shaping the class...Read more
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