Great news! Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert program applications date EXTENDED to 6 November. Read more…
This is a great program that you do not want to miss out on being selected for. The closing date has been extended to the 6 November. (Last year South Africa selected 16 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts. Four of them were sent to the Global Forum in Dubai while another four were sent to the E2 Global Educator Exchange in Redmond, Washington.) Microsoft is migrating its information content from the old site (Microsoft Educator Network) to Microsoft’s new site called the Micros...Read more
SchoolNet’s Omashani Naidoo, was recently named one of the Intel® Education Visionaries, an elite group of approximately 40 education leaders from all over the world who are exemplars for global education transformation; to inspire and share best practices with other educators, administrators and parents worldwide; and help Intel design the future of education.
Omashani was selected as an Intel Education Visionary on the basis of her insight, passion and proven experience as an agent of change in ed...
What is Microsoft Math?
Microsoft Math is an online space where our South Africa Mathematics learners can practice, learn. collaborate and compete with one another using their smart phones after school hours. They can also use the program on a tablet or a laptop/desktop.
Here are some of the important aspects:
This is a free, online, high school learning support service
It provides thousands of Maths exercises including examples of how to solve them.
It provides theory and tests pre...
The Microsoft in Education team has some exciting news for you. We have launched the Microsoft Educator Community. This new community site is a combined experience of the Microsoft Educator Network and Skype in the Classroom. This site is a central destination where you’ll have access to over 1.5 million educators around the world, a fresh selection of professional development courses and resources, thousands of inspiring lesson plans, and access to live lesso...
In a blogpost in July () we mentioned that
Microsoft had announced their Microsoft Virtual Academy online courses for
teachers. In South Africa the Microsoft Virtual Academy has a branch called the
Microsoft Virtual Academy 4Africa . Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft and Megan
Rademeyer from SchoolNet have been holding webinars for teachers once a month on
this platform. These webinars cover topics that teachers will love and the
recordings can be listened to at any time:
Previous recordings
1) Appl...
The Eskom Expo
Young Scientists awards was recently held at the Birchwood Hotel in
Johannesburg. Hosted by the lively Proverb, the awards showcased the talented
scientists South Africa is producing. More than 150 finalists were selected
from entrants across South Africa. It was notable that for the first time the
number of girls that entered the Expo far surpassed the number of boys. The eskom Expo for Young Scientists is a
science fair, where students showcase projects based on their community
expe...
Microsoft is looking for self-driven educators who are passionate about their careers and inspiring students with outside-the-box thinking. If you have a collaborative spirit, are resourceful and entrepreneurial, relish the role of being a change agent, and work to achieve excellence in education using advanced technologies and social media – then you may have what it takes to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIE). Applications for this amazing program close on 30th October so we encour...
This is a great competition that you do not want to miss out on. The closing date is 30th October. (Last year South Africa selected 16 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts. Four of them were sent to the Global Forum in Dubai while another four were sent to the E2 Global Educator Exchange in Redmond, Washington.) At the same time as this Microsoft is migrating its information content from the old site to Microsoft’s new site that comes into final effect on 30 October 2015! Your entr...
The Telkom Foundation will once again be
hosting a Connected Youth workshop in Mamelodi, Pretoria on the 26th
November 2015. Connected Youth is an initiative that has been growing in the
last couple of years. This workshop call on volunteers to help youth from local
communities grow their soft skills, digital skills and are provided with motivational
speakers to help encourage and grow our youth in skills to make them more
attuned to the needs in the job market.
The workshop will be hosted between...
Here is a message from Glenn Jones, GEG Leader of the Cape Town Central group about a GEG gettogether on Friday 30th October at Wynberg Girls’ High School at 3pm.
“Come join us for a GEG event at Wynberg Girls High School on Friday the 30th of October at 3pm, where you will get ¨a taste of project based learning¨. You will also learn how to build a PLN (personal learning network) using Google + and Twitter and be able to integrate Google Maps with forms, sheet...
