Conference highlights #5: Teachers Thrilled with our recent 2015 Learning Technologies Conference in Durban…report back by Janet Thomson
This is a condensed version of the Conference report submitted by Janet Thomson the Executive Director of SchoolNetSA. The full report can be read on the SchoolNet website.
Over 500 teachers from across South Africa gathered at St Mary’s DSG in Kloof for the ICT in the Classroom conference held between 1 and 3 July 2015. SchoolNet South Africa has been hosting this ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) conference for educators, provincial and national educational department officials, spon...Read more
This is a message from Cara Turner about SiliconCape Women’s School workshops in Cape Town
What are we trying to do?
Open girls’ and young women’s eyes to the world of digital and technology and the vast opportunities there.
Provide them with knowledge and background idea of the spaces involved.
Give practical demonstrations of skills and application in the tech-related fields.
Equip them with sufficient digital skills/knowledge to allow them to take the next steps (f...
Interested in knowing more about the amazing free application One Note and how to implement it at your school? The OneNote team is putting on a series of webcasts for IT Admins, starting July 21st, at 12:00 PST. They are having these every two weeks from now until late September. Given the numerous changes, updates, and improvements coming out with OneNote they wanted to set up this series and talk with our IT Admins at schools to help ensure a smooth rollout when the school year start...
We loved having Holly Clarke at our Conference. Her keynote was very stirring and well-received (see our Conference day 2 report-back http://goo.gl/hvVhnJ). If you want to know more about Holly this is what she writes in the About section of her blog http://goo.gl/tF4xNH:
Holly has shared her resources for the SchoolNet Conference by means of a Google site . Do take a look… .
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We loved having the energetic Stuart Ball at our Conference. He will long be remembered for his ‘I love PowerPoint’ keynote which was very well-received (see our Conference Day 1 report-back http://goo.gl/VOU0O5).
Stuart is from Microsoft UK and he is responsible for the Microsoft UK Teachers Blog http://goo.gl/7PIbH1
Stuart has shared many of his conference presentations with us.
Here is a list:
a) Microsoft PowerPoint and Learning Styles
https://goo.gl/XlVN8Q
2) Kodukup Teacher Resource Pack...
On July 5th, 2015 Microsoft announced the availability of DEEP LEADING (http://aka.ms/deepleading), a resource for K-12 School Leadership built as a downloadable OneNote Notebook. The resource was co-authored by Dr Maria Langworthy, the lead researcher for the ITL Research (www.itlresearch.com) and Mark Sparvell, Microsoft.
Teachers and Leaders will find DEEP LEADING valuable as:
A ‘conversation guide’ to facilitate deep learning conversations built around the 21CLD materials.
A coll...
Recently we held the SchoolNet Conference in Kloof, Kwazulu-Natal and the very first session was called ‘Twitter for Beginners’ presented by Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet. Before displaying the presentation let’s talk about Twitter, and, if you are not yet on Twitter perhaps this is the time to join!
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking service that allows its users to send and read short 140-character messages known as tweets. It’s a fantastic way to share ideas an...
