Great news! Introducing OneNote Staff Notebook for education – just released!
What is OneNote Staff Notebook?
OneNote Staff Notebook, like OneNote Class Notebook, is an app for Office 365 that lets an education staff leader quickly set up a personal workspace for every staff member or teacher, a content library for shared information and a collaboration space for everyone to collaborate—all within one powerful notebook.
OneNote Staff Notebook has just been released
Building on the resounding excitement from teachers around OneNote Class Notebook (removing “Creator” namin...Read more
Background to the webinar
Mabore says, “The South African government has invested a capital of approximately R17 billion ZAR budget in rolling out technology-based learning for primary school education. This roll-out is done in phases and is implemented from one province to the other. This has been a call for urgent teachers’ development in the use of ICT for teaching and learning, and digital literacy. To this end, educators’ professional development has become more relevant and a priority ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Monday the 16th of February 400 excited delegates gathered at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg for the South African iPad Summit. These iPad summits are held all over the world, so it was an honour to be able to attend the first one in Africa. The aim of the summit was to share ideas on the benefits of the tablet in the classroom as a tool for learning, sharing and improving creativity.
This event was hosted by Think Ahead (Michelle Lissoos) and Apple’s Core...
600 attendees from 40 countries are currently attending the 2015 Microsoft Global Forum in Dubai. From Twitter I gleaned the following photos. We have a number of South African teachers representing our country. Four of them are #MIEExpert15 teachers namely Kathryn Riva, Karen Stadler, Lyneth Crighton and Phuti Ragophala. Here the four of them can be seen standing…
Some of our SA teachers are highlighting their projects
Megan Rademeyer and Lyneth Crighton presented at the Global Summit. ...
On Thursday afternoon 19 Feb 2015 at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet free webinar entitled ‘Get to know Microsoft’s Chronomzoom’. This was presented by a South African educator, Linda Foulkes, who is also a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert #MIEExpert15. Linda will soon be representing South Africa at the Microsoft Global Forum in Redmond Washington.
The webinar description
Linda said: ChronoZoom is a free, open source, cross-platform, openly-authored timeline of the history of Everything. Th...
This is a profile from Phuti Ragopahala, one of South Africa’s Microsoft #MIEExperts for 2015. Phuti is a school principal who will be travelling to the Microsoft Global Forum in Dubai in a week’s time. Her blog can be seen at http://itandiksproject.blogspot.com/ . She has also written a hguest post for the SchoolNet blog on using Windows Movie maker. Her Microsoft Sway can be found at https://sway.com/q1BMnYZek9jiD3ZI. Phuti was the ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year Winner in South Africa in 2011.&nbs...
The ISPA Super Teacher Competition sponsored by the Internet service providers association is now open for registration, Please join us in promoting this competition at schools and amongst colleagues.
What is the ISPA SuperTeacher Competition?
The ISPA SuperTeacher Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (www.ispa.org.za) and managed by CoZa Cares Foundation (www.cozacares.co.za).
Background to the competition
ISPA launched the ISPA SuperTeacher ...
Submitted by Fiona BealAfter looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye.
1. Top ten Google Apps security tips from the Ed Tech team
http://goo.gl/dcVc1O
This is a PDF put out by the EdTechTeam showing questions and answers about security issues in visual form.
2. Newspaper maps powered by Google maps Newspaper Map powered by+Google Maps http://goo.gl/pTWpR
3. Today I received the nicest Valentine’s Car...
This is another guest post from Tiaan Lotter (@MrLotter), a Google Certified Teacher and GEG Leader from South Africa. Tiaan is a very innovative Afrikaans teacher who oftenfrequently presents at conferences around South Africa. Visit his website at . Tiaan often shares guest posts on the blog and his posts can be found at this link http://goo.gl/d3Sxfl. His most recent post was QR Mosquito Hunt: A QR Code Poetry Lesson with Grade 7s – a guest post by @MrLotter. This current post can also...
This is great news from Lindsay Durrell and Arthur Preston in Cpae Town. ‘We are pleased to inform you that GEG Cape Town – West Coast is hosting its first event for 2015 on the 26th of February 2015 at Inkwenkwezi High School from 15:00 – 17:30.
The event will take the form of a training session where attendees will be introduced to the Google Apps for Education suite and be given an opportunity to gain some hands on experience of working with a few of these apps. It is therefore...
