Apply for the Microsoft Innovative educator Expert experience – five days to go! Closing date 6 November
This is a great competition that you do not want to miss out on. 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.
You can read about these two events here:
A report back on the Microsoft In Education Global Forum Dubai by Karen Stadler, a MIEExpert15 in South Africa http://bit.ly/1hFZOSZ
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
There is one event an educator does not want to miss out on every year in South Africa, and that is the EdTechTeam’s Global Summit featuring Google for Education (https://za.gafesummit.com/). Every year this amazing team sweeps in with new brooms and they dust away all the cobwebs from one’s mind showing us what can be achieved not only by using Google Apps in the classroom but also by redefining our roles as teachers. “I am not just the teacher, ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Yesterday’s post was an introductory post about this great, free application, Storybird available from https://storybird.com. Today we look at the signing up process and how to get started,
1. Sign up your class
The first thing you’ll need to do is add your class or your classes as in my case. This takes a wee bit of time but once it is done its done. Your students won’t need email addresses. At your next lesson the class will each log in on their temporary passwo...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
If you want to give your class a great writing experience and you have computer devices for your class to use why not try using Storyboard http://storybird.com/? Storybird is one of the most popular free tools for digital storytelling in schools around the globe.
Wondering what it is?
Storybird is a free (for schools) online story creating program that lets one make visual stories in seconds. One of the things that sets Storybird apart from other creative writing applications i...
After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions recently, these are the ten that have caught my eye so far.
1. Write Music in Google Documents
https://goo.gl/7ORvuD
Love this! Richard Byrne says, “VexTab Music Notation is a Google Documents Add-on that lets you write music notation in Google Documents. With the Add-on installed you can write standard music notation, drum notation, and guitar tablature in a Google Document. To do this simply open the Add-on from y...
What is it?
A free online course helping educators integrate computational thinking into their curriculum
Who is it for?
Humanities, Math, Science, and Computing educators
When does it take place?
Now through December 20th
Where do I register?
https://computationalthinkingcourse.withgoogle.com/preview
About the Course
The goal of this course is to help educators learn about computational thinking (CT), how it differs from computer science, and how it can be integrated into a variety of ...
This is a great competition that you do not want to miss out on. 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.
You can read about these two events here:
A report back on the Microsoft In Education Global Forum Dubai by Karen Stadler, a MIEExpert15 in South Africa http://bit.ly/1hFZOSZ
‘My dream came true at E2...
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 4Africa Virtual Academy. 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) ...
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Over the past several months we have been listening to our audiences, understanding what they needed from Microsoft to be successful, and driving a cross company effort to provide a one stop hub for Microsoft in Education. This new digital destination provides enhanced collaboration and community for educators, new content and resources for students and leaders, updated product and solutions pages and enhanced navigation that bring together the best of Microsoft in educa...
