Calling potential Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts – applications are open
In previous issues of the SchoolNet SA newsletter and on this blog or our website you may have read about some of the current Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts and the opportunities they have had to attend the E2 Educator Exchange in Budapest or the Global Microsoft in Education Forum in Dubai. If you are using Microsoft technologies in innovative ways in your classroom, apply to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, and you too may have the opportunity to experience professional networking eve...Read more
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers. All the previous posts in this series can be accessed on this link : (Google links)
Useful Google in Education posts this week #56
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Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Traditionally girls don’t choose IT as a career path, nor do they take IT as a subject. As part of the Microsoft Showcase Schools program, Brescia House School Microsoft Student Ambassadors Teaghan Lucas, Nikita Lledo, Munashe Mujaji and Kristina Heynes , were tasked to run a project to promote IT.
On 25 May 2016 the Brescia Microsoft Student Ambassadors hosted a networking dinner for grade 11 girls who are taking either IT or CAT as subjects. The girls were seated w...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is
seeking youth between 18 and 30 who are working on community or social action
on Climate change. Why don’t you consider a project or campaign you are
involved in to combat climate change, an action which convinced your parents,
school or college to take climate action, a lobbying of your elected members of
government or your city leaders. Whatever is making a difference, turn it into
a snappy concise 3 minute vid...
Have you ever considered getting your class to write a ‘Choose your own adventure’ story? This type of story was very popular in past times. Basically it is a story that has different endings based on decisions that were made. The reader can choose the ending they like the best. Writing a story like this encourages students to think ‘What if’ about situations, and they are made aware of the realization that most decisions have consequences.
The definition of a ‘Choose...
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:
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #52
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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. All the previous posts in this series can be accessed on this link : (Google links)
Useful Google in Education posts this week #55
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
I’ve always been interested in learning about thinking! For example, information on how the brain works, using concept maps in the classroom. study skills, making thinking visible and more. I know that when kids have structure for thinking they learn better. What I didn’t know, though, is that that there is a whole movement in schools aimed at encouraging thinking in the classroom.
I stumbled on to this recently when I received an email inviting me to register...
This is the fifteenth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus again on Karen Stadler, our South African Skype guru, who is the Senior Primary Technology Integration Specialist at Elkanah House Senior Primary in Cape Town. She is also a 2016 Microsoft MIEExpert Educator. Karen is well known globally especially for her Travelling Rhino project and her award-winning wiki. In 2015 Karen represented South Africa at...
Brescia House School in Johannesburg is having another one of it’s wonderful TeachMeets on Thursday 9th June at 3pm. Please visit their website at http://www.brescia.co.za/teachmeets-2016 to register. This is an opportunity for teachers, librarians, coordinators, heads & IT managers interested in innovation in teaching & learning to learn and share classroom ideas.
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