What’s happening at the Teacher Centres around the country?
In August 2015, 131 delegates from teacher centres around South Africa attended the Teacher Centre Managers workshop in Johannesburg with an intention of “Building Functional Teacher Centres and Competent Centre Managers to Support Quality Learning and Teaching”. Over the past three months, SchoolNet SA staff have visited twenty seven Teacher Centres across all nine provinces to see if the centre managers were putting into action what they had learnt and to see first-hand what both th...Read more
Johannesburg, 4 May 2015 – Four educators from South Africa joined 300 Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Experts and Student Ambassadors from around the world at Microsoft’s E2 Global Educator Exchange event. The event took place from April 29 to May 1 in Redmond, Washington (USA) at Microsoft’s headquarter. The educators were selected from amongst the most innovative in the world to attend the event, collaborate, create and share experiences with their peers on how to integrate technology and ed...
We will be holding a short, free SchoolNet webinar on Thursday 28th May at 3:15 . Our speaker will be Alan Goldberg from Digicape who will share on using the acclaimed free iPad app ‘Adobe Slate’ for creating stunning visual documents. We invite you join us at the webinar.
Background to this webinar
Alan Goldberg, our webinar presenter for this week, says: “Named AppStore Editors’ Choice, Slate lets you turn your next report, travel adventure, school project or ne...
On Friday 24th April I excitedly made my way to Rondebosch Boys High to take part in a GEG (Google Educator Group) Meetup.
Wondering what GEGs are?
Google’s world-wide GEG initiative aims to grow voluntary groups of teachers in communities who will share their use of the various Google offerings with other interested teachers in their community. Here in South Africa our Google Educator Groups are growing steadily with a membership of 679 teachers since August 2014. To date we have 12 GEG...
We would like to remind you about Microsoft and SchoolNet’s exciting competition for teachers who are using one or more of the Microsoft tools mentioned below as part of their teaching. The closing date has been extended to 1 June 2015!
You could win a trip to the SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom conference in Durban in July or a Teaching with Technology Kick-Off session for your school by sharing your idea for using one or more of these Microsoft tools with other teachers and creating a...
Kathryn Riva, one of the Microsoft MIEExpert teachers from South Africa, who recently attended the Global Forum in Dubai with Microsoft, sent information about a blended learning task she did with her Grade 5 girls that used Microsoft Sway. Kathryn teaches at Micklefield School in Cape Town. Kathryn Rsays, “I used Microsoft Sway in my SS Geography: Africa blended learning lesson – the class loved Sway and their presentations were outstanding…success!”
During the Grade 5 Ble...
This is a message from Victor Udoewa from Google
“We are looking for teachers to help us test a new, Google online course. It only requires 30-60 minutes of your time, and we’ll do it over Hangouts. We are especially looking for non-computer science and non-ICT teachers.
What?
We are creating a Computational Thinking online course that explains to educators what Computational Thinking is and gives examples on how to implement it in the classroom
How can you help us?
Give us some of y...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This was good news today! ‘Magical Chrome extension puts tabs to sleep so they don’t kill your browser’. http://goo.gl/99K92W
People are loyal to their web browsers, and I love Google Chrome with all it’s functionalities. But its tendancy to slow down one’s computer and drain memory is very frustrating! So when I heard about ‘The Great Suspender’ extension I installed it immediately. https://goo.gl/OjWhr
This extension claims to ‘automatically suspend u...
