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 #45
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This is a message from Vidcode. It brings with it some great opportunities for teachers and classrooms in 2016.
“President Obama recently announced Computer Science for All, a new initiative to bring computer science education to classrooms across the U.S. Vidcode is overjoyed that the White House has put their support behind computer science for every student!
We’re thrilled to be part of this movement to empower all students to use and connect computer science with their friends and hobbies. ...
Guest post submitted by Sharon Ries of CozaCaresDigital Learning Day is being celebrated across the United States today, Wednesday 17 February. Other countries around the world have been encouraged to submit information about their events today as well, on the Twitter handle @OfficialDLDay and the hashtag #DLD. CoZa Cares Foundation is choosing to launch the 2016 ISPA SuperTeacher Competition on this day – and so a little balloon will be featured over Johannesburg on the DLD map of the w...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
For some time now I have been interested in getting to grips with creating ‘Hyperdocs’. HyperDoc is a term used to describe a Google Doc that contains an innovative lesson for students – a 21st Century worksheet and more. The name was penned by Lisa Highfill and Sarah Landis. It’s all about hyperlinking your docs for amazing learning experiences! With one shortened link, students can access a lesson that contains instructions, links, tasks, and more.
So w...
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 #39
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SchoolNet SA would like to congratulate the three South African and Lesotho Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts for 2015/2016 who have been selected to attend the Microsoft Global E2 Teacher Exchange in Budapest next month. They will join and network with 300 MIEExperts from around the world at this exciting event.
These Global Exchanges are life-changing events. Last year we featured guest blogposts of these events from two of our MIEExperts:
‘My dream came true at E2’ – a report back ...
The DG Murray Trust (DGMT) invites proposals for experiments that tackle school drop-out in South
Africa.
“We invite you – as well-known organisations in this field, or fresh new alliances – to design and
implement a programme focused on identifying Grade 8 and/or 9 learners who are at risk of dropping
out and putting in measures that reduce the rates of grade repetition and drop-out.
The project will be implemented over a period of 36 months through a phased approach.
We are looking 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 #44
View more lists from Fiona Beal
...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Learning to read is one of the most important things a child will learn at school. Everything else depends on it. The best is to teach reading in such a way that children love it and they want to read for themselves. Free reading resources are always a teacher and a parent’s dream but of course, these are few and far between. In this post I will tell you about some of my favourite free sites.
1. Oxford Owl
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
I have only just discovered this fr...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
There are a number of great new Microsoft tools including Sway, Office Mix and OneNote Class Notebook as well as online Microsoft courses including Teaching with Technology and 21st Century Learning Design. Many of these tools and courses are available through the Microsoft Educator Community at no cost to teachers. The intention of the Microsoft Trainer Validation Workshops, which were held in Johannesburg in November 2015 and Nairobi, Kenya in December 2015, were to s...
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