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10 steps to getting started with Google Classroom – try using this great application!

There’s a lot of excitement about the Learning Management System,  Google Classroom,  currently with new features appearing almost weekly. This is the first in a series of posts about this amazing application. Are you a Google Apps school? Only accounts that are associated with Google Apps for Education are able to utilize Google Classroom. Here are some first steps in the process 1. Log in Assuming you are a GAFE (Google Apps for Education) and you are logged in to your account go to http...

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The benefits of downloading and using the free Microsoft Math with your Grade 8-10 Mathematics students

If you are a High School Maths teacher in South Africa, with Grade 10-12 maths students, you don’t want your students to miss out on using the free, online service, Microsoft Math, after hours! The servive is globally available at https://math.microsoft.com  It’s like having your own tutor at home! Students can can download Microsoft Math on their smartphones or tablets, and can even use it on their home laptops or desktops. Microsoft Math makes the learning experience personal, e...

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10 Great Google Posts #12

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… 10 Great Google Posts #12 View more lists from Fiona Beal ...

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SchoolNet Conference in July – Early Bird rate closes tomorrow 30 April! Register today…

We would like to invite you to register for our upcoming 2015 ICT in the Classroom Conference taking place in Durban from 1-3 July 2015. The venue is St Mary’s DSG in Kloof. Thisconference has always been very popular with educators, school leaders and ICT coordinators in the past and we are expecting another very successful three-day event this year.  If you are keen to learn more about using technology in engaging ways in and beyond the classroom, this conference is for you! Our conference w...

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My #MIEExpert15 Greatest Moments to Date by @folklind from South Africa

This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda has contributed a number of blog posts on this blog in the past the most recent encouraging teachers to enter their students for the Microsoft Office Championships 2015 . Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com. Linda is currently attending the week-long 2015 E2 Global Educator Exchange in Redmond washington along with three other South African teachers! Being chosen as ...

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Webinar recording and downloadable presentation from Weds 22nd April at 3:15pm ‘How to do a Technology and Pedagogy Mix’ by Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft South Africa

  On Wednesday afternoon 22nd April 2015 at 3:15pm we held a webinar  presented by Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft in which Victor aimed to show us how pedagogy and technology can work really well together as a mix. The Webinar description Victor advertised the webinar in the following way: “In this webinar, I would like to focus how Technology and Pedagogy mix as one of the units of the Teaching with Technology course, but I want to do this rather differently in a way of making it more in...

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10 great Google posts this week #11

After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions during this week and last week, these are the ten that have caught my eye so far.  I have saved these using Listly (http://list.ly.com) which is a great way to present a list of sites 10 great Google posts this week #11 View more lists from Fiona Beal ...

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Enter the Microsoft tools competition “Use IT – Share IT – Like IT” for South African Teachers. Closing date 1 June 2015…

We have exciting news for you. As of today Microsoft and SchoolNet will be launching a competition for teachers who are using one or more of the Microsoft tools mentioned below as part of their teaching. You could win a trip to the SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom conference 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 Facebook post about it. More details about prizes are given in t...

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