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 this week #47
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We invite you to join Victor Ngobeni (@victorn) who will be hosting Gizem Lislas (@gizemlislas) at a free Microsoft webinar this Thursday 9th March at 3pm. Gizem Lislas is the Windows Consumer Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft South Africa.
Victor and Gizem will demo how Windows 10 can help students and educators do great things with:
· Better learning outcomes
· Affordable devices and solutions
· Safety and security
Time: Thursday afternoon 10th March 2016: 3pm –...
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 #42
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You are invited to attend the 2016 iEARN Conference and Youth Summit in Pune India from 3rd – 8th July 2016.
iEARN 2016 Conference Theme
FOSTERING QUALITY IN EDUCATION
Participants can present their papers or can conduct workshops or action research projects or share success stories of iEARN projects in the following areas:
Schools and community
Teacher Development
Leadership in schools
Innovation and change
Quality standards in schools
Visioning practice in Sc...
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 #46
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Out
of the current 61 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts from South Africa and Lesotho, the following three teachers
have been selected to attend the Microsoft Educator Exchange (E2)
event taking place in Budapest, Hungary in March 2016:
Keshma Patel – Micklefield School, Western Cape
Moses Sello Sehoole – Mankuroane Technical and Commercial High, North West Province
Tracy Heath – Brescia House School, Gauteng
The three teachers have demonstrated a
willingn...
“The E2 – Educator Exchange 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 event brings together the most innovative educators from around the world to collaborate, create, and share their experiences on how to integrate technology and pedagogy to advance learning, achieve student outcomes, and transform education.
If it is at all possib...
Can your Grade 10 – 12 Mathematics learners afford to be without this amazing free tool? Microsoft Math is an online space, available on all devices, where our South Africa Mathematics learners can practice, learn. collaborate and compete with one another using their smart phones or other devicesafter school hours. Here are some of the important aspects:
It is based on our CAPS curriculum for Maths
It provides thousands of maths exercises including examples of how to solve them.
This is a f...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Thursday 25th February Keshma Patel from Micklefield Primary, one of Microsoft’s local MIEExperts who is in fact representing South Africa at the Microsoft E2 Global event next week, invited me to present on the topic of ‘How teachers around South Africa are using Microsoft’s newer ICT tools in the classroom’. This termly gathering, which Keshma initiated last year, is for Grade 6 teachers from local schools to share classroom ideas with one another. The theme f...
1 Jan – 25 September 2016. Join and help to plant 100 million trees by 2017.
The ENO Programme organises the 3rd ENO Treelympics, olympiads for tree planting. They will last from 1 Jan to 25 Sep 2016. Their target is to plant 100 million trees by 2017, a pledge they made for Rio+20 Summit 2012. Sign up to participate on their website http://www.treelympics.org/. Find their Facebook page to interact and tweet #enotreelympics. Africa needs mor...
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