A visit to the Cape of Good Hope and the SchoolNet ICT in the Classroom Conference – by Peter Rafferty
SchoolNet Conference goers in 2017 will remember the valuable contribution made by our overseas presenter, Peter Rafferty and his infectious enthusiasm for innovation in teaching. He has taken the time to write this article about his visit to South Africa. Even more interesting is the way he relates his experiences in South Africa to his own experiences as a learner when he was at school and as a teacher now in England and somehow Peter manages to subtly highlight the impact that technology has had on t...Read more
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Microsoft is once again teaming up with Code.org to support the Hour of Code. Although the activities on code.org/minecraft can be completed at no cost at any time, learners around the world are encouraged to be part of an initiative to get students learning the basics of coding during Computer Science Education Week – between 4 and 10 December 2017.
You may have got your learners doing the Minecraft themed Hour of Code activities last year, and if you would like to use...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers https://goo.gl/NWoBGD . (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2).
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The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at The link to the back-dated posts is:
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We are pleased to announce that our next free webinar, ‘Putting your story on the map with Google Tour Builder’ will be held this coming Thursday 30th November 2017 at 3:15pm (GMT+2). Our speaker will be Linda Foulkes, MIEE / Freelance Trainer / Consultant / Courseware Author / eLearning Content Creator at Foulkes@Work in the United Kingdom. This will be SchoolNet’s final webinar for 2017.
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Conference 2017 has been and gone but the memory lingers on… This post brings you a handy list of links including links to presentations from some of our presenters. Only 24 of our presenters have shared their presentations to date, and we are very grateful to them. But first, a quick recap!
Over 400 delegates attended the 2017 SchoolNet SA ICT in the
Classroom conference held at Brescia House School in Bryanston, Gauteng between
5 – 7 October 2017. It was a conf...
The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week. The list is embedded below but can also be found at The link to the back-dated posts is:
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After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers https://goo.gl/ubmkje. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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Justin Harper and Saheti School came into the spotlight recently in a Business Day newspaper article entitled ‘Hi Tech approach to education’. We have mentioned Justin in a few blog posts before. He was one of the five teachers from South Africa selected to attend the Microsoft Global E2 Exchange in Toronto in 2016. You can read about him in the post ‘Meet the five South African MIEExpert Educators attending the Microsoft E2 Education Exchange in Toronto’
In this ar...
