South African Teachers – register your blog in the SA Blog Awards competition – by 21st November 2014
Submitted by Fiona Beal
The SA Blog Awards is a competition that is said to showcase the very best of South African blogs. Please visit http://www.sablogawards.com for information about this. I received an email to say that the registration phase for the 2014 Blog Awards is now open but ONLY UNTIL Friday 21st November…
Teachers, enter your blogs
Teachers, think about entering your blog in this showcase because there is a Best Educational Blog award. Take the chance and enter! Bloggers may ...Read more
This is a guest post from Anthony Egbers who is Head of Technology at Dainfern College Prep School. Anthony has had the opportunity to run a BYOT programme over the past two years. He is a firm believer in the opportunities that technology provides teachers in terms of personal development and classroom opportunities. In this post he shares on launching GEG Dainfern and the current Google Educator groups (GEG) movement in South Africa This post is also featured on Anthony’s blog ...
Our congratulations go to the following sixteen Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts who are teachers from South Africa and Lesotho. If you would like to see their profiles or learning activities, please look them up on the Microsoft Educator Network. You will need to log in to the Microsoft Educator Network first.
From Brescia House School in Bryanston, Gauteng:
Jilian Cederwall:
http://www.pil-network.com/profile/details/e9586c82-d727-41e5-8edb-8b9b24543239
Lyneth Crighton:
http://www.pil-ne...
This project looks at the issue of how to harness mobile phones for learning mathematics in formal and informal learning environments with the objective of finding a sustainable, scalable, replicable, and affordable service for learners. You can register for the programme free of charge at https://momaths.nokia.com
Here is a SlideShare explaining about the programme.
Mobile Learning for Mathematics in formal / informal education in South Africa/Finland
– Riitta Vanska from SAFIP...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
From the online applications that were received and the more than 50 learning activities that were uploaded to the Microsoft Educator Network, sixteen teachers from South Africa and Lesotho were selected to be Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts (MIEs) for 2015. These teachers join a group of 800 educators from more than 100 countries around the world who will enjoy a year long experience with Microsoft as they learn more about creating an environment of innovation in e...
This is a guest post from Tiaan Lotter (@MrLotter), a Google Certified Teacher from South Africa. Tiaan is a very innovative Afrikaans teacher from Parklands College and he frequently presents at conferences around South Africa. Visit his website at . In previous guest posts Tiaan shared about his experience at the Google Teacher Academy in London; he also contributed Gone Google? Now go Advanced…; and the last post was Teaching with Twitter in #Afrikaans. Thanks for sharing so freely wi...
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere are two great programmes to use in the classroom for media making activities. This is an invitation to join a guided tour of the Adobe Premiere Elements workspace by joining in a series of webinars. The sessions are open to all and will be held online in the iEARN Adobe Youth Voices Connect Room at http://iearn.adobeconnect.com/ayv.
How to join the webinars
To convert the times below to your local time zone, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/wor...
This is a message from Lucy Gray the Global Conference Co-Chair.
“If you are new to the Global Education Conference Network, we are a 19,000 member strong community of educators and others interested in connecting classrooms and furthering educational opportunities for all. My conference co-chair, Steve Hargadon, and I strongly believe that educators need to connect with others globally in order to establish the foundation for collaboration; our community is designed to foster these professional ...
Recently Google launched the Google Educator Group (GEG) program in South Africa with SchoolNetSA as the local education partner. The establishment of GEG groups along with the free GEG workshop training on offer are part of Google’s worldwide strategy to help teachers enhance the use of technology in their teaching. In late July around 25 educators met at a location in Johannesburg for a Train the Trainer weekend run by Wendy Gorton from the USA. As a result of this, GEG workshops are being offered...
