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Why not join SchoolNet’s free membership program?

SchoolNet started a free member programme for South African educators towards the end of 2011 as a way of providing various free, online professional initiatives that focus on integrating ICT into daily teaching. What does Schoolnet’s membership programme include? Social Media Initiatives The SchoolNet SA blog has regular updates of posts which would interest teachers Our SchoolNet Facebook page has daily updates of resources and events We can be reached on Twitte...

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Why not explore Microsoft Math this Easter break?

Grade 10-12 Mathematics can become the most popular subject at school with the right tools for learning! One of those tools that is free and engaging is Microsoft Math. Microsoft Math is a free, online, 24-hour high school learning support service for Grade 10-12 Maths students in South Africa and globally, provided by Microsoft. What is more, it is available on any device at any time of day or night. You’ll find it at  https://math.microsoft.com  What makes Microsoft Math...

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‘South Africa Library Week’ – another great creative writing guest post from @apeters522 from Parklands College

This is another guest post from Anthony Peters @apeters522 who is a very innovative English High School teacher from Parklands College in CapeTown who delights in using technology in the classroom creatively. We are always delighted to publish posts by Anthony. You can view all his previous posts on our blog via the Anthony Peters label under ‘Quick links’ on the right side.  Grade 7 enjoyed a whole programme with a spectrum of activities for South Africa’s Library Week. The foci of thes...

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MIEExpert Spotlight #9: Karen Stadler from Cape Town talks about her use of Skype in the classroom

This is the sixth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at:  . Today we focus on Karen Stadler 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 the Microsoft Global Forum in Dubai a...

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Eight new stories from the African Storybook Project website

The African Storybook project (http://www.africanstorybook.org/) , a wonderful repository of Creative Commons stories, beautifully illustrated, for the children of Africa, has changed its website to a new design. It is not very easy to find your way around the new website and the actual stories don’t have links that enable one to find them again. (The only way i could find a link to a story was to email it to myself using the Share button). Nevertheless this is a site every teacher should know ab...

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MIEExpert Spotlight #8: Linda Foulkes from Cape Town highly recommends using OneNote in the classroom

This is the eigtth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at: . Today we focus on Linda Foulkes from Cape Town who is one of our Microsoft #MIEExperts for 2016. She has written about her use of OneNote in the classroom. Linda  was one of four teachers representing South Africa in 2015 in Seattle at the E2 Global Teacher Exchange in Seattle in 2015. Follow her on Twitter at @folklind Linda Foulkes, a current M...

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