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Microsoft Math – get your Grade 10-12 Maths students set up for this service as soon as they return to school in the third term

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 third term. This is a free service that they will benefit from enormously. What is Microsoft Math? On 26 November 2014 the Nokia MoMaths name changed to Microsoft Math due to the acquisition of Nokia Devices & Services business by Microsoft. The new name for the service was selected to be Microsoft Math. https://math.micro...

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Webinar recording from SchoolNet’s free webinar on Thursday 25th June at 3:15pm on ‘Alice – how you can use it in the classroom’ by Clair Dean

On Thursday afternoon 25th June we held a webinar entitled, ‘Alice – how you can use it in the classroom’. Our speaker was Claire Dean Head of ICT at Stirling Primary School, East London                                   Background to the webinar Claire is an expert on using Alice in the classroom. Alice is a free, innovative 3-D interactive animation environment (suitable for learners who are ten years old o...

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SchoolNet conducts professional development workshops as part of the Telkom Foundation ICT project in Multigrade Farm Schools

Telkom Foundation in 2014, sponsored ICT infrastructure worth over R 200,000 per winner in each of the twelve categories of the National Teaching Awards. As part of Telkom’s ongoing support in education, they have partnered with Rally2 Read in an attempt to improve literacy in Primary schools and in addition are providing ICT infrastructure that includes content, maintenance, support and a professional development pathway for teachers in project schools. SchoolNet South Africa has recently been appo...

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Microsoft Math – what is it, how do you use it and the benefits of using it with Grade 10-12 Mathematics learners

Maths students at High School often need every bit of support that they can get to help them with their Mathematics skills. That is where Microsoft Math comes in. It is a free service originally known as Nokia Maths. All students have to do is register at https://math.microsoft.com and from there on they can use a smartphone,  tablet or PC to access the free service and the materials.  It is also available as a Windows Phone application, which makes the service content accessible offline a...

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SchoolNet free webinar on Thursday 25th June at 3:15pm on ‘Alice – how you can use it in the classroom’

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet free webinar on Thursday 25th June at 3:15pm on ‘Alice – how you can use it in the classroom’. Our speaker will be Claire Dean from Stirling Primary School in East London. Claire is an expert on using Alice in the classroom. Alice is a free, innovative 3-D interactive animation environment (suitable for learners who are ten years old or older) that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or...

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‘My dream came true at E2’ – a report back on the Microsoft E2 Educator Exchange in Redmond in May by MIEExpert15, Linda Foulkes

This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com. This year eight teachers from South Africa, who had been selected as Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts for 2015 attended one of the two Global Forums as part of their prize. In the last post we will featured a report back on the Dubai Global Forumby Karen Stadler.  Today Karen Linda Foulkes reports back on her visit to Redmond...

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