Think about joining an iEARN global, collaborative project…
What is iEARN?
iEARN (https://iearn.org/) is a non-profit organization made up of well over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 140 countries. Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet is the Country Co-ordinator for South Africa. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. More than 2,000,000 students and 500 educators each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide. 30 different languages are...Read more
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka
SchoolNet SA has been contracted by the
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education to conduct training for 30 Education
Library Information and Technology Service (ELITS) Officials during the first
week of December 2017.
The traditional role of a librarian as a knowledge manager has evolved
to become that of being a curator of resources and a partner in the development
of online learning materials. The intention of this course is to equip
officials who run libraries with the s...
Submitted by Mathapelo Sehume from SchoolNet
This month’s
spotlight is on Ms Violet Shadung, a Grade 8 -11 English, Maths and Technology
teacher from Ruabohlale Secondary School.
Ms
Shadung started basic ICT skills training in 2016 along with her colleagues
from Ruabohlale Secondary. Back when she started her journey, the “only thing she
could do on her computer was type”. Since her participation in basic ICT skills
workshops, she has improved her technology skills and now considers herself ...
On Thursday 26th October 2017 at 3:15pm we held a free SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘We can code it – An introduction to Scratch and coding’ which was presented by Nomusa Keninda, Senior E- Learning Specialist in the Mpumalanga Department of Education and founder of the Mpumalanga ICT Club. Coding is becoming a vital skill that should be part of every classroom. Scratch is a great, free, online program to introduce to your learners. Learners as young as 5 years can use Scratch to expres...
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/wYiE6r. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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Here is a message from Anthony Peters from Parklands College about an exciting free spelling initiative that takes place online on Friday 27th October 2017. It sounds great!
“Hi all
I’m helping to spread an exciting initiative around South Africa and it has the ambitious aim of improving English literacy competence of individuals not just within South Africa but across the whole African continent! Spelling competitions are a big focus at the moment and there are four a year, one in each...
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, ‘Introduction to Scratch and Coding’ will be held this coming Thursday 26th October 2017 at 3:15pm (GMT+2). Our speaker will be Nomusa Keninda, Senior E- Learning Specialist in the Mpumalanga Department of Education and founder of the Mpumalanga ICT. Nowadays technology is everywhere! There seems to be an app for whatever need we may have. The Internet is the backbone of how we live in our modern society. Our world is increasingl...
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/wF9wiz. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
PDF (portable document format files) files are mainly meant for viewing rather than editing files. They are popular because they preserve the original formatting of a document and can easily be opened if you have the Free Adobe Acrobat program installed on your computer. There was a time when PDFs were thought of as secure documents that couldn’t be tampered with. It seems that this is no longer the case. This article looks at 6 interesting things you can do with a PDF othe...
