ICT4RED Project – Teacher Professional Development: More than just brainstorming!
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka
Teachers from the phase three schools in Cofimvaba are making
great progress thus far in effective use of technology in their teaching since
the ICT4RED professional development workshops they first attended in July
2014. They are halfway through towards earning their tablets and most
individuals have already earned themselves enough badges to qualify for gadgets
such as SD cards and earphones. All fourteen (14) participating schools are
excited to have earned ...Read more
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 and also Gone Google? Now go Advanced… Thanks for the great sharing Tiaan and Parklands College.
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Two years ago, as a teacher enterin...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Applications to become a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert have now closed and the process of selecting teachers to attend the Microsoft in Education Global Forum taking place in Redmond, USA in April 2015 is underway. We were thrilled by the calibre of teachers who applied and were impressed by the more than 50 new Learning Activities that were uploaded to the Microsoft Educator Network.
Thank you to all the teachers who shared their lesson ideas with an internation...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
A rather exciting thing happened to me recently. I was invited to be a ‘Dragon’ at Parklands College. Yes, you DID hear me correctly…a Dragon! This is what the invite from Anthony Peters of Parklands College said, “Would you like to be one of the dragons?” Since I have always wanted to be thought of as a ‘Dragon’ at school I seized the opportunity and said YES!
Well, as it turned out this was the most innovative project ever! It was a combination of all seven of Ter...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Friday 24th October the all-day Google Innovation Tour took place in Cape Town. This was a very exciting opportunity for schools to learn more about Google. The venue was teeming with over 200 excited teachers and educators who had come to learn about how Google can change their classrooms. Chromebooks were available for teachers to try out.
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This is a final message from Google about a workshop on 25th October (tomorrow) that would interest CAT and IT teachers in South Africa, as well as other teachers who are interested in this topic. If you are not in the Joburg vicintiy Google is willing to cover all expenses, flights and transport/accommodations needed. Fill in this interest form found at http://goo.gl/FPpFEg and then contact mathapelo@schoolnet.org.za (phone: +27 11 403 – 5777)
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Microsoft and MTN bring you a Maths Challenge this month! It consists of plenty of fun practice and an exciting competition open to all learners in Grade 10, 11 and 12 during 3-9 November 2014. In the competition, the service randomly generates 10 questions for each individual participant corresponding to their grade from a bank of over 9000 questions on Algebraic Expressions and Trigonometry for Grade 10, Equations & Inequalities and Trigonometry for Grade 11, and Sequences & Series and Trigon...
Karen Wastra from Google has asked us to place this message on our blog in connection with the Google Innovation Tours in the Western that we advertised recently. This contains a Future Interest form in case you are interested in any other other events that will be offered by Google in South Africa.
“Dear All,
THANK YOU so much for the wonderful response we have received, the event is now closed for registration. Please can you tell others as well.
If you are interested in attending future e...
Teachers have been using OneNote for years as a powerful tool to deliver content to students or to provide a space for collaboration in the classroom. Until now though, each student would need their own private notebook, or a teacher would need to privacy-protect sections that students shouldn’t see—and the dozens of notebooks a teacher would typically need to manage became very cumbersome.
The new One Note Class Notebook Creator is here…
OneNote Class Notebook Creator lets a teacher quick...
We are pleased to announce that SchoolNet and the EdTech Team will most likely be hosting two Google Summits in South Africa in 2015 along with the following two schools:
Parklands College Cape Town will once again be kindly hosting the Cape Town Google Summit on 8, 9, 10 October 2015. (The 8th will be the pre-Summit)
Selbourne High School in East London will be kindly hosting the East London Summit. (I believe it is going to be at the Selbourne Primary School)
Please visit http://za.gafesummit...
