Microsoft is excited to announce the availability of Minecraft: Education Edition in South Africa!
This is the third post in a series of posts about using Minecraft: Education Edition in your classroom. (The series of posts can be accessed at: ). In this post we explain why Microsoft is excited to announce the availability of Minecraft: Education Edition in South Africa! We give details of why you should think about using Minecraft: Education Edition at your school, and how to go about purchasing it.
Minecraft: Education Edition is a version of the popular open world game, Minecraft, specifica...Read more
This is the second post in a series of posts about using Minecraft: Education Edition in your classroom. (The series of posts can be accessed at: ). In this post Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet reports back on her experience at the Minecraft: Education Edition Training Partner Summit in Dubai where trainers from around the world were certified in order to run Mincraft Education Edition training sessions with schools
Between 28 February and 2 March 2017 Megan Rademeyer, SchoolNet
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This is the 25th post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight” for South Africa. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Neliswa Zini. Neliswa has sent us this post about herself and how she started using ICT in the classroom.
“My name is Neliswa Zini. I live in Queenstown in Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. I currently teach at Shiloh Junior and Senior Primary School, where I offer NS/TECH in Grade 4, Mathematics grade 5 and English (FAL), Social Sciences an...
Megan Rademeyer has been hosting a series of webinars on the Microsoft Virtual Academy on various Microsoft tools and how these can be used for educational purposes. Most of these sessions feature a Microsoft expert who is able to give tips for using the tools effectively – and a number of Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts have featured to talk about how they are using the tools in their classrooms.
Click on the links below if you’d like to watch a pre-recorded session and follow @Micro...
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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The Microsoft Education Exchange (E2) is Microsoft in Education’s annual event recognizing and celebrating the achievements of educators who combine content, pedagogy, and technology in exemplary ways to prepare students for success. This year, E2 took place in Toronto, Canada between 21 and 23 March 2017 and included almost 300 teachers and education thought leaders from countries around the world. SchoolNet’s Megan Rademeyer, who is a Microsoft Fellow, attended E2 and presented a session entitle...
Did you know that the second of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: “Digital Literacy + FakeNews,” will be held online (and for free) on Thursday June 1st from 12:00 – 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone).
This event is being organized in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander, who will serve as moderator for the opening panel and as the closing keynote speaker. Invited panelists and presenters will look deeply at the foundational relationship of librarie...
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/8vRtyp (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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This is the first in a series of posts about using Minecraft: Education Edition in your classroom. (The series of posts can be accessed at: ) In this post we introduce you to this global sensation that has been personalised for use in schools, specifically for education, and is being used effectively by educators in more than 50 countries of the
world.
Minecraft is hitting the world by storm! You just have to mention the word ‘Minecraft’ in class and hands go up with learner...
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Recently this great infographic created Mia MacMeekin was displayed on the TeachThought blog, and I was delighted to see that Mia shared this with a Creative Commons license. In learner-centered teaching, the focus is on the student as learner, with the aim of improving student learning and success..This infographic shows some of the classroom strategies for achieving it.(Click on the image below to see an enlarged version). Our thanks go to Mia MacKeekin for expressing these idea...
