Webinar recording from Thurs 5th March 3:15pm ‘Making the most of Office Plugins’ by #MIEExpert Linda Foulkes
On Thursday afternoon 5th March 2015 at 3.15pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Making the most of Microsoft Office Plugins’. This was presented by a South African #MIEExpert15 Linda Foulkes who taught at Elkanah House High School last year but was snapped up by NetLearn in South Africa to encourage High School students to participate in the Microsoft MOS Certifications. Linda is very knowledgeable about Microsoft technologies in the classroom as you will hear from her webinars. She will s...Read more
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. Lindsay Durell GEG leader for Metro North in Cape Town gave a great presentation on Flubaroo at a training ‘Google Forms & Flubaroo’ . Presentation link is http://goo.gl/M4Jnc6
2. Great post from Richard Byrne ‘Create a Word Cloud Within Your Google Documents’ http://goo.gl/S...
Would you like to know more about Office Plugins such as creating timelines within PowerPoint? We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet webinar about Office Timelines on Thursday afternoon 5th March at 3.30pm. Our presenter is Linda Foulkes #MIEExpert teacher from South Africa. We would love you to join us. (Details below)
Webinar details
Meeting Name: ‘Making the most of Microsoft Office Plugins’
Summary: Plug-Ins are often overlooked by m...
Intel® She Will Connect program aims to close the Internet gender gap, connecting millions of girls and women to opportunity. Women throughout the world are alike in being marginalized in many instances and the She Will Connect program aims to address these issues through providing digital literacy skills to women and girls. Showing women and girls the potential of the web will showcase ways in which women and girls can uplift themselves. It is to this end that Intel would like to expand the She Will Co...
The Microsoft Global Forum – Dubai took place on 22 – 23 February 2015 as part of the Microsoft Global Forum event series. The Forum bought together more than 400 education leaders, government officials Africa including South African Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts Lyneth Crighton, Kathryn Riva, Phuti Ragophala and Karen Stadler. Also in attendance was the head of Brescia House School, Benedikte Nott who shared her experiences of integrating technology at this Microsoft Showcase School;...
Senzo Ngcobo and Gerald Roos went off to Kampala again this month to conduct workshops for the second phase in support the Commonwealth Certificate for Teacher ICT Integration (CCTI). The Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda had invited 68 participants to take part at the Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU) in Kampala, Uganda, from February 16-19, 2015.
The First Follow-up workshop was for the purpose of following up on the first course that participants had experienced and t...
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka
The ICT4RED project is a ground-breaking project which contributes to the improvement of rural education through technology-led innovation. Teachers in this project need to ‘earn’ their tablets by attending all trainings (10 Modules) and to submit set homework in the Teacher Professional Development (TPD). Gallery Walk teaching strategy involved creating a Gallery Walk session in a classroom, using social media platforms to participate in online discussions...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo
Google Educator Groups are growing steadily with a fantastic membership of 568 teachers since August 2014. This report provides a summary of all Google Educator Group activities for January 2015 and the rest of the quarter.
So what’s the fuss?
Google Educator Groups aims to grow voluntary groups of teachers who are ICT Champions who want to be leaders that work in their immediate communities to spread the awareness of the various Google offerings and keep ICT oriented o...
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 in...
This is a profile of Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015 (#MIEExpert15). Linda has contributed a number of blog posts on this blog in Microsoft Innovative Educator expert and is a regular webinar presenter for SchooNnet. Linda will soon be representing South Africa at the Global Forum in Redmond, Washington. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com.
My past school experience at Elkanah House High School in Cape Town
My role ove...
