Adobe Youth Voices teachers in South Africa – would you like to grow a media project through a financial mini-grant?
Do you need some financial assistance with a project that you are facilitating?
What is this about?
In order to both support youth media making broadly in iEARN and build on the experiences of educators and students from AdobeYouthVoices, iEARN-USA is announcing an iEARN ProjectsProduction and Exhibition Mini-GrantsProgram open to the entire network.
Any iEARN participants who are facilitating an iEARN project or who are participating in an iEARN project and would like to support a productio...Read more
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This is the fifth post in a series on using avatars in the classroom. My students use avatars for various purposes such as uploading a profile picture to their Edmodo profile, Google classroom profile, Gmail profile, blog profile etc. In this series of posts we will look at these various avatar creation applications in more details. Previous posts can be accessed by clicking on the avatars tag on the blog here http://goo.gl/72Q0cu.
Today we look an interesting avatar site calle...
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 #38
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Why not join the Microsoft Educator Community (free) and connect and collaborate with teachers and ideas for the classroom around the world: https://education.microsoft.com/
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This is the fourth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Nosithembele Gcobo is a teacher at Sentile Junior Secondary School in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. She describes herself as ‘an innovative, dynamic teacher, ICT integrated and a TBBT – a transformed born before technology innovator!”
She was selected at the end of 2015 as one of South Africa’s 63 Microsoft innovative Educator Experts for 2016. She say...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various subscriptions recently, these are 20 that look useful for teachers.
Great Google posts #43
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Brescia House is having one of their wonderful TeachMeets again
on Tuesday 15th March, from 3pm – 5pm. They call it “a party, IT style!” (Sounds like fun!) This will be an opportunity to celebrate and share
curriculum and technology integration ideas. This is a free event but please pre-register. Their advert ends off with ‘Party surprises
in store!’ If you live in the Joburg area you can’t afford to miss this event!
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You can use Sway to create and share interactive reports, presentations and personal stories.
In this webinar @MeganRademeyer and @VictorNgobeni will show you how to create a Sway and they will give you some ideas for using this fun, free presentation tool in your classroom. Guest presenter @PhutiRagophala, a current Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, will show us some of her Sways and how she’s used this tool in the classroom and to spread her ideas.
Time: 3pm (S...
Submitted by Charli Wiggil
This is a guest post from Charli Wiggil (@wiggs2010) Deputy Principal at Eden College in Durban. Charli is one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2016. You can read more about Charli at https://about.me/CharliWiggill
Should I upgrade to Windows 10?
Over the past few months, we’ve all been inundated with
offers popping-up on our screens recommending we take advantage of a free
Windows 10 upgrade. The pop-ups include the upgrade button, the tantalisi...
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:
Why not join the Microsoft Educator Community (free) and connect and collaborate with teachers and ideas for the classroom around the world: https://education.microsoft.com/
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #37
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This is the third post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Keshma
Patel, a Grade 6 teacher at Micklefield Primary School for girls in Cape Town
and a 2016 Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, believes that: “as a teacher your learning
should never end. Education is ever changing. You never have a dull moment.
There are always new goals to set, new ideas to explore and different ways to
inspire young minds.” ...
