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Adobe Youth Voices Creative Educator Awards – Deadline Extended to September 18th

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This is a message from Lisa Jobson from Adobe Youth Voices and we are posting it as a reminder to all our Adobe Youth Voice educators in South Africa. The Adobe Youth Voices Creative Educator Award application deadline has been extended to September 18th. Educators selected for this Award will receive a one year Creative Cloud license (up to 25 devices) to help advance your youth media program.   All active Adobe Youth Voices educator in iEARN are encouraged to take a few minutes to review the a...

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You’re invited VIRTUALLY to the fifth annual Google Science Fair on 21 September at Mountain View, California!

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Here is a message from Google to teachers. The Science fair applications from students all around the world have been narrowed down to 20 global finalists. It’s amazing that we can be invited virtually to the event! “Hi educators, Thank you for supporting your young scientists as they submitted projects to this year’s Google Science Fair! From purifying water with corn cobs to transporting Ebola antibodies through silk, all of the projects submitted this year all tackled problems using inventive...

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Edutopia and Pearson’s video series on global education profiles innovative school systems around the world

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Recently I came across this fascinating series of videos created by Edutopia and Pearson on global education. This video series entitled Education Everywhere profiles innovative school systems all around the world. They focus on high-achieving education systems and model schools around the world to see what makes them successful. Each video provides a transcript of what was said. Here are four of the videos that caught my attention: 1. Finland’s Formula for School Success Early intervention and sustain...

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Conference highlights #17 ‘ICTs in Multigrade Classrooms’ and ‘Google Educator Groups’by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet

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We are currently presenting a series of posts displaying the presentations given at the SchoolNet Conference in Durban in July this year.  In each post we share the presentation made by the presenter. The rest of the Conference highlight posts can be viewed on this blog at this link: http://goo.gl/yYX7WE. At the recent SchoolNet ICT in the classroom conference Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet gave two presentations. Omashani first presentation entitled ‘A leader in the 21st century’ referred to t...

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4Africa Virtual Academy webinar #2: OneNote for Education

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Are you and your students using One Note? OneNote is a powerful note-taking tool created by Microsoft. Some say it is one of the best note-taking applications available. OneNote has been around for quite some times as part of the Microsoft Office suite  but now Microsoft has made  this free digital notebook available separately via Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Chrome. It is such a versatile, useful application that it should be used by everyone! OneNote looks like a digital notebook with ...

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Digital storytelling #4: Where can I find free images and sound effects for digital storytelling?

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Submitted by Fiona Beal We are presenting a series of four posts about digital storytelling. The first three in the series have already been posted: Digital storytelling #1: What exactly is digital storytelling? Digital storytelling #2: How do I get started writing a digital story?Digital storytelling #3: Which tools can I use for creating a digital story. Today we review places to find free images and sound effects for digital storytelling.  Digital Storytelling combines writing, ...

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4Africa Virtual Academy webinar #1: Become a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert in South Africa – How to Apply

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In August we displayed a post about entering for the Microsoft Innovative Educator program for 2015. Click on the image below to be taken to the recording. 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). Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngobeni presented a webinar toge...

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SA Student excels @ Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in Texas – a guest post by MIEExpert Linda Foulkes

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In its 14th year, the 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) attracted 600,000 unique candidates who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products. 145 student finalists from 47 countries participated in the final round of competition. “More than 1.2 billion people use Office worldwide, and these students have taken the time to set themselves apart as the best of the best,” said Alison Cunard, General Manager of Learning Experiences at Microsoft. “Ear...

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