‘How I use Microsoft’s Window Movie Maker to convey the message of my lessons to my learners’ by #MIEExpert from South Africa, Phuti Ragaphola
This is a guest post from Phuti Ragopahala, one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2015. Phuti is a school principal who will be travelling to the Global Forum in Dubai in a week’s time. Her blog and this post can be seen at http://itandiksproject.blogspot.com/ . Her Microsoft Sway can be found at https://sway.com/q1BMnYZek9jiD3ZI
What I’ve learnt in life is that one of the powerful tool of learning is through sharing of knowledge so that we can harvest some innovative ideas from each o...Read more
We are pleased to update some of the details of our 2015 ‘ICT in the Classroom’ conference taking place in July 2015 (see our new flyer below). The most important is that we now have a Conference website where you can access all the details.
Date: 1-3 July 2015
Venue: St Mary’s School in Kloof, Kwazulu-Natal
Fees: Book on or before the 30th April: R750, Book after the 30th April: R850
Register on our website: http://schoolnet.org.za/conference2015/
Who should attend: Teache...
Webinar details
Meeting Name: ‘Get to know Microsoft’s Chronozoom’
Summary:
ChronoZoom: ChronoZoom is a free, open source, cross-platform, openly-authored timeline of the history of Everything. This webinar will take you on a ChronoZoom journey. All you need is a browser, iPad, Smartphone, or your Windows App store. It is designed to enable educators and students to explore time and tell stories about change over time. Used as a reference tool for history students and teachers...
The term blog originated from the blend of the term “web log”. It started as a way someone could voice their thoughts and opinions and share information easily online. Blogging is really much easier than it looks. A classroom blog can be easily created without any knowledge of HTML and it is a great way of sharing the life of a classroom with parents, other teachers and interested folk.
The following video is a quick, short introduction to blogging.
Why start a classroom blog
Blogs are...
On Thursday afternoon 12 Feb 2015 at 3.30pm we held a SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Creative use of Microsoft’s digital free tools for teaching and learning’. This was presented by a South African teacher, Mabore Lekalakala, who is also a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert #MIEExpert15. Mabore will soon be attending the Global Forum in Redmond Washington.
The webinar description
Mabore added a description of the webinar: “With the advent of using ICT to enhance learning initiatives in S...
The Commonwealth of Learning and the African Virtual University have teamed up to provide a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) which is available online and open to anyone who would like to study the course for free. The course is called, “ ‘Using ICTs to enrich teaching and learning’ and will guide participants to study online in an interactive learning environment. The course aims to answer 3 questions: What are ICT’s (module 1), Why use ICTs in teaching and...
SchoolNet is pleased to make a start on our 2015 webinar season. We will be starting with webinar presentations by some of our Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts from South Africa. Mabore Lekalakala will start the ball rolling! Mabore is one of the four MIEExperts from South Africa who will soon be heading for the Global Forum in Redmond, Washington.
To join this short session please click on the link given below from wherever you are at 3.30pm on Thursday and chat to us via Adobe chat using the cha...
This is a guest post from Karen Stadler one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2015. Karen teaches at Elkanah House Senior Primary and is well known globally especially for her Travelling Rhino project and her award-winning wiki. Karen is not unused to winning awards. Recently Karen won the prestigious ISTE award ISTE’s SIGOL Online Learning Award in 2014. In 2010 she won a trip to the BETT ICT conference in England as a result of a competition run by the Independent Education magazine, by ...
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 being about an Office Mix that she presented to a group of teachers on a Skype call with Nigeria. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com.
“NetLEARN is proud to once again announce the 2015 MOS Worldwide Championships which will be held in Dallas, Texas USA. We would like to pu...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye.
1. Soon Offline Access Will Be the Default Setting for Google Docs and Slides
http://goo.gl/1Wj2tX
This is great news for schools where Internet access is intermittent. Over the next couple of weeks offline access will become the default setting for folks who sign into Chrome on the web and visit Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides.Bear in m...
