Register for the upcoming EdTechTeam Summit featuring Google for Education in Cape Town in October
We invite you to join us for the South Africa EdTechTeam Summit featuring Google for Education to be held at Parklands College in Cape Town.The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, Apple Distinguished Educators, practicing administrators, solution providers, and representatives from the Google education teams. The EdTechTeam has shared the preliminary schedule online at https://goo.gl/rd7YLf so that you can start envisioning the sessions yo...Read more
School Net SA conducts professional development workshops
as part of an initiative for the Telkom Foundation. Telkom is making meaningful
contributions to improving the quality of education in the Eastern Cape
Schools. School Net SA is conducting training in the course, Change
Leadership for Technology Integration with Senior Management Teams in 12
schools in the Queenstown area of the Eastern Cape. Facing Challenges is
one of the modules covered in September. Effective school lead...
Submitted by Hlengiwe Mfeka
Saturday the 19th of September 2015 was freezing with pouring rain in the KZN Midlands, BUT that didn’t prevent teachers in the Learning Gains through Play project from attending their TPD workshop at Thembelihle Primary School in Howick. The workshop for the two modules to be covered, Mind mapping and Gallery Walk, was attended by 16 out of 22 Grade R and 1 teachers from the five schools participating in the project – all absentees had officially forwarded their apologies...
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. Google Classroom: How to Transfer Events from One Google Calendar to Another
http://goo.gl/duC6D6
Michael Fricano says: “So you’ve got your Google Classroom calendars all set up, right? But, if you’re like me, you already had a Google Calendar going for class. So you might be asking, “How do I transfer events from my old calendar to ...
If your Grade 10-12 Maths students are not yet taking advantage of this great, free service offered by Microsoft please get them registered as soon as they return to school in the fourth term. Best though is to get them to register now before the school holidays start. This is a free service that they will benefit from enormously.
What is Microsoft Math?
Microsoft Math, https://math.microsoft.com is a great free site for Grade 10-12 Maths students to use after hours either in groups or individually ...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
The Microsoft Teaching with Technology course is a free online, self-study course available through the Microsoft Educator Network. It begins with a diagnostic assessment which then advises a participant which of the following modules he or she should complete in order to be awarded a Teaching with Technology certificate:
Why does UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers promote technology literacy
Selecting ICT resources to support curriculum outcomes
How do techno...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Between 15 and 18 September 2015, fifty two ICT trainers from all provinces attended a workshop at the Microsoft Training Centre. The workshop had the theme of “Using Technologies Optimally for Quality Learning and Teaching” and aimed to equip core trainers with knowledge and skills around a number of ICT in education tools and programmes which they can then implement in their province.
Amongst the tools covered were Microsoft Math, Skype in the Classroom, 2Enable, Voda...
E-classroom (http://e-classroom.co.za), the well-known South African education site with free, downloadable CAPS-aligned activities for every subject and every grade has not only launched a lovely new website over the weekend, but also an interactive Maths and Science revision paper platform and an App!
Interactive learning is the future of education, and technology, when implemented properly, can deliver substantial gains in learner achievement and boost engagement. Learners today definitely want mo...
Now that technology is being used more and more in the everyday classroom, Blended Learning is becoming very popular. Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace (Wikipedia).
CC image courtesy of Queens University Flickr https://goo.gl/eJxVwq
There are many versions of blended learning but from reading the...
