The yearly Edublogs Awards – a recap. of the 2015 winners
If you are a blogger you’ll know about the annual Edublogs Awards. The Edublog Awards started in 2004. They promote and demonstrate the educational value of social media such as the use of blogs and Twitter for educational purposes. These awards take place in November/December yearly in three stages.
First there is the Nominations stage.
This is followed by the Voting stage.
Finally the winners are announced.
I always love looking through the winning blogs as th...Read more
Microsoft and SchoolNet SA recently congratulated the 61 new 2016 South African and Lesotho Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts who have been selected to be part of the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert programme for 2015-2016. In this series of posts we will be highlighting these MIEExperts. We thought we would start with Warren Sparrow
Warren is the Head of Information and Communications Technology at Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory School.
Warren in the news!
Warren has re...
Microsoft says, “Education can change the world. At Microsoft, we believe that education is the single most important investment in the future of individuals, communities, nations, and the world – that it is vital to sustainable social and economic success. It is also a fundamental human right. But the reality is that education globally faces a crisis; a crisis of resources, time, and support.”
To this effect Microsoft is continually bringing new ideas to teachers in a myriad of ways. One ...
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 #30
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The 2015 school year has ended but make a note to get your Grade 10-12s in 2016
registered with the free Microsoft Math program available at https://math.microsoft.com. Your students
can access this application after hours – all the material is CAPS compliant and can be
accessed from a smart phone, tablet or laptop/desktop.
Microsoft Math makes the learning experience personal, engaging and exciting.
Students can do math exercises, read theory, learn from examples, and take
tests.
Microsoft...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to various
subscriptions recently, these are some that have caught my eye so far
Great Google posts this week #37
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This is the third in a series of posts 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 at Weeworld.
Getting started...
Omashani, our SchoolNet Intel visionary says she met this Vidcode team whilst in San Francisco at the Intel Visionary Program recently. She reports that they are amazing and are keen to help girls code scripts for video. We thought we’d write about some of their recent contributions to Computer Science Education Week…
Computer Science Education Week started yesterday! It takes place this December 7th to the 13th. It’s a week to build and learn with code – anyone can do it. It’s a...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This is the second in a series of posts 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. The previous post can be found using the label found at http://goo.gl/72Q0cu
Grade 1 students enjoy using today’d ava...
