Teachers – join Microsoft for Skype-a-Thon 2016 on 29th and 30th November
Here is a message from Microsoft:
“At Microsoft, we believe a powerful way to learn is from each other and if we can connect classrooms, we can change the world. That’s why we’re empowering students and educators around the globe to do just that. On November 29th and 30th Microsoft is hosting a Global Education Skype-a-Thon. Over the 48 hours, classrooms will connect to other classrooms and guest speakers around the world using Skype and contribute to help reach the goal t...Read more
Sunday, November 13th, is day one of the seventh annual Global Education Conference. We are ready for a great opening day of sessions and keynotes!IMPORTANT NOTES:
If the conference site should experience any difficulties, a back-up site with session calendars and links is at http://www.globaledcon.com.
Recordings of any sessions that have taken place will accessible on the conference recordings page, usually within a few minutes after a session has ended.
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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. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
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Useful Google in Education posts this week #80
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Submitted by Janet Thomson CEO of SchoolNet SA
This is an extract from a recent learning brief conducted over the past three years which has tracked the development of two cohorts of Foundation Phase learners.
The purpose of this learning brief is to share the findings of
the research conducted over the past three years which has tracked the
development of two cohorts of Foundation Phase learners. These learners have
experienced a technology-enabled, play-infused learning environment from ...
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 link to the back-dated posts is
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #76
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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. (The link to previous posts can be found here https://goo.gl/CNO3M2)
Google in Education posts this week #79
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On Thursday afternoon 3 November 2016 we held a webinar entitled, ‘Tech-ing Additional Languages’ using SchoolNet’s Adobe Connect platform. Our speaker was Bronwyn Desjardins, an Educational Technology Coach at St Stithians Girls’ Preparatory in Johannesburg. Bronwyn is also an iTeacher (2012) winner, MIE runner-up (2010) and Apple Distinguished Educator who has presented at numerous IT conferences. She has 18 years of teaching experience including teaching ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Most learners like to play dice board games of one kind or another. Board
games satisfy a learner’s competitive edge, and they also help learners to
master skills such as:
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Communicating verbally
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Sharing, waiting and taking turns
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Learning to focus and think ahead
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Coping w...
This is the 18th post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at . Today we focus on two Cape Town MIEExpert Educators. Sharing effective classroom practices is what Judi Francisco and Keshma Patel do best. Both teachers are from Micklefield School, Cape Town. As Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts they are doing their bit as leaders of using technology effectively in the classroom. Recently, they both took part in a documentary called, ...
This is the 17th post in the series “MIEExpert
Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at . Today we focus on Peter
De Lisle from Kwazulu Natal, one of our Microsoft’s 2016 #MIEExperts from South
Africa. Peter de Lisle originally came to Hilton College as Head of IT, but has
moved from that to being more involved with curriculum and the learning platforms.
He does the school timetable, and he is the Moodle administrator. He gets
involved in various...
