‘My First Microsoft Sway and how I got started’ by Kathryn Riva a #MIEExpert15 from South Africa
This is a guest post from Kathryn Riva (@KathRiva), a Microsoft #MIEExpert15 teacher from South Africa. 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 (you will need to (join and) log in first to view this) where you’ll see she has uploaded 13 great activities. ...Read more
Here is an email from Karen Walstra who is the Program Manager for Education at Google for Education in South Africa.
Dear Administrators, IT Leaders, Academic Heads of Schools, Universities, FET and TVET Colleges
You are invited to attend one of our Innovation Tour Days in Durban, Johannesburg or Bloemfontein
At each one-day event we will share ideas about Google for Education from both the technical and academic points of view. Our GEG Team will also discuss Google communities and in...
This is a post about Mokhudu Machaba one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Mokhudu recently wrote a blog post on our SchoolNet blog about One Note suggesting it could be great to use with project-based learning. Mokhudu’s blog can be found at:
http://projectbasedteaching.wordpress.com In this post we highlight Mockudu’s achievement in receiving the Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer Certificate from Microsoft.
“Dear Mokhudu,
Congratulations! You have successfully completed the MIE Train...
SchoolNet is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our 2015 ‘ICT in the Classroom’ conference in July 2015. Here are some of 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
Who should attend
Teachers, school leaders and ICT co-ordinators, who want to learn more about using technology in engaging ways in and beyond the classroom
Conference themes
Curri...
We are pleased to announce the 3rd EdTechTeam South African Google Apps for Education Summit Tour. Please see the details below. We would love to see you all there. Please let any interested colleagues know about this as well.
We invite you to join us for the EdTechTeam South Africa Summit featuring Google and iOS for Education to be held at the Selborne Primary, in East London, and Parklands College in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2015.
See the event details here!
Join us…
October 2-3...
Have you tried this llovely new Microsoft product Microsoft Sway? Microsoft’s Sway, an online tool for creating presentation documents, is now generally available to the public. Previously, a waiting list was in place. What makes Sway particularly interesting is that it doesn’t have traditional files, like the original Office suite. So it was built for the cloud! Like PowerPoint it is a presentation tool but quite different!
Some of our South Africa Microsoft MIEExpert teachers have been creati...
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. Best Practices for Using Google Classroom – gCON for GAFE
http://goo.gl/BVNvzN
This is an hour long video. Join Juan De Luca, Google Certified Teacher and Trainer, and learn how take advantage of Google Classroom in your school. This simple, but powerful, tool can help organize your classroom workflow and improve the productivit...
We are pleased to report that the Google GEG (Google Educator Group) Kickstarter workshops have been taking place around South Africa. These workshops have taken place in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Rustenburg, Emalheni, Uppington and Durban. The final workshop for 2014 was a two day Train the Trainer workshop held for the Edunova staff in Phillipi Cape Town. Two workshops are planned in the near future at Hoerskool Noorderland in Polokwane, Limpopo and at Uplands College in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. GEG Dainf...
submitted by Janet Thomson
Teachers and Senior management teams from the five project schools in KZN attended a two day workshop during the January 2015 school holidays. Thembelihle Primary kindly hosted the workshop which was attended by twenty five participants and a team of facilitators comprising Hlengiwe Mfeka, Tracey Butchart, Senzo Ngcobo and Janet Thomson.
Purpose of the workshop
The purpose of the two new modules was to share the findings from the evaluation research wit...
In November 2014, sixteen teachers from South Africa and Lesotho were selected as Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts (MIEs) based on the innovative and impactful ways that they are using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning. From this group, eight Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts have now been selected to attend the Microsoft in Education Global Forums taking place in Dubai in February and Redmond, USA in April 2015. In addition to developing and sharing great learning activities on the Micro...
