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 posts for teachers this week #48
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Here in South Africa, Sean Hampton-Cole (a teacher from Johannesburg) has started a Google group for teachers interested in Ed Tech to share ideas with one another. He has called this group the ‘SA Edtech group’, a shortened form of South African Educational Technology Integration Group’. Here is a message from Sean:
Please join the ‘SA Edtech’ group
“Please could I ask you to assist in getting teachers to sign up to this group? I belong to a similar group for ...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are a selection that look useful for teachers.
Great Google posts for teachers this week #51
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This is a guest post from Kathryn Riva, a MIEExpert from
Micklefield Primary in Cape Town. Kathryn Used Sway and other applications in a project with her Grade 7s this year. Follow Kathryn on Twitter @kathriva
“The Grade 7s are required to do a project in the first term in which they have to…
Draw a sketch map(s) of own area
Include symbols, key and scale
Record own observations of land use and kinds of vegetation
Show four cardinal compass directions
I decided to make this...
The free Microsoft webinar scheduled for TOMORROW, Tuesday 19th April, features the gamification application teachers and students all over the world are talking about – Minecraft!
Time: Tuesday afternoon 19 April at 3pm – 3:45pm.
Presenter: Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngobeni
Topic:Minecraft
Explanation: “Minecraft is a computer game that uses virtual building blocks to create opportunities for creative problem-solving. More than a million people are playing Minecraft at any one ...
This is a report back on the Microsoft Educator Exchange E2 event in Budapest from one of our South African MIEExperts, Keshma Patel. Keshma is a teacher at Micklefield Primary in Cape Town
“What an honour it was to be selected as one of three South Africans to attend this year’s Microsoft E2 Global Exchange conference in Budapest, Hungary! Besides Budapest being a beautiful city rich in culture and history we had plenty to learn and even more people to meet.
Some of my highlight...
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 #47
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In this special EdWeb webinar, students will hear from oceanographer, explorer, and conservationist Dr. Sylvia Earle, who has worked tirelessly to protect the planet’s oceans. Over the course of her more-than-50-year career, Dr. Earle has led more than 100 expeditions and has logged more than 7,000 hours—nearly 292 full days—of underwater study. She founded the Sylvia Earle Alliance and Mission Blue to ignite support for the protection of “hope spots”—special places that are vital to the heal...
The World Affairs Council in Washington, DC are searching for 5 teachers from Johannesburg who are interested in participating in an exchange programme with 5 teachers from United States. Interested? If so please contact omashani@schoolnet.org.za for more details before 22nd April 2016. Read about the program below:
Overview
The World Affairs Council—Washington,
D.C. is a U.S. based non-profit dedicated to providing quality programming in
global education. While many orga...
Are you coming to CuriosITy? Wondering what it is all about? We;;…tThere is a fantastic dinner coming up on the 25th May with a great speaker – and all for a good cause. By purchasing a ticket and attending the event you also sponsor 2 Grade 11 girls from broader Johannesburg doing Information Technology or Computer Applications Technology to attend and be inspired by Lori Milner, a modern corporate woman. Please help the Brescia House student ambassadors inspire a new generation of women wa...
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