Two Google Summits taking place in South Africa in 2015 – in Cape Town and East London. Have you registered yet?
SchoolNet will be hosting two Google Summits in 2015 along with the EdTechTeam from the USA, Parklands College Cape Town, and Selbourne Primary, East London. The dates are:
Parklands College, Cape Town: October 9th and 10th
Selbourne Primary, East London: October 2nd and 3rd.
Please visit the EdTechTeams:
Please visit the EdTechTeams website to find out more and to register: http://za.gafesummit.com/
Since their inception in South Africa two years ago, these Go...Read more
On Thursday afternoon 19th March 2015 at 3.15pm we held a very informative SchoolNet webinar entitled ‘Stop MOOCing about! Time to get serious about online learning and explore iTunesU!’ This was presented by Alan Goldberg who is the Director for educational implementation of Apple Technology at Digicape in Cape Town.
The webinar description
Alan Goldberg, our webinar presenter for this week, says: “iTunes U offers the world’s largest catalogue of educational content from top educatio...
Quite often a teacher wishes he/she could learn more about using technology in the classroom – but there seems to be no time! The ideal in this scenario would be a course that is free to all, has a self assessment tool to identify one’s needs, is short, is available online, let’s you works at your own individual pace, has support and extension activities and top marks would be that it meets a recognised criteria such as UNESCO competencies for ICT in Education. Does this sound like some of your tho...
Microsoft Showcase Classroom
We invite all school leaders and educators to an afternoon showcase experience to demonstrate how Windows 8 Tablets, Office 365, Microsoft Professional Development and other education tools and resources can help to transform learning. The right technology in the hands of educators with access to the best solutions and pedagogical training will create a force that truly transforms education across South Africa.
Event details
Durban
Tuesday, 24th March, 2015
Point Yac...
Background to this webinar
Alan Goldberg, our webinar presenter for this week, says: “iTunes U offers the world’s largest catalogue of educational content from top education institutions worldwide (32 countries), with over 7,500 public courses across all disciplines. From the likes of Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, the Museum of Modern Art, London School of Economics, Kyoto University and more; to hundreds of K-12 schools, museums and art galleries, including the Smithsonian Institution to the ...
SchoolNet is pleased to present the profile of Mrs Nhanha Tyembile, Principal of Zamuxolo Primary School. Mrs Tyembile progressed rapidly in her technological and pedagogical journey from zero to hero in the space of two years; from being a novice in using learning technologies, Mrs Thyembile progressed to becoming a Senior Trainer in the ICT4RED project known as TECH4RED. Her colleagues in the project from both the CSIR and SchoolNet attribute her impressive successes in the field to her dedication an...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
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.
1. 3 Good Chrome Extensions to Convert Web Pages to PDFs .http://goo.gl/I3GDt9 You could use these extensions to convert long articles ( for instance articles from Scientific magazines) into PDFs which I would usually download into my computer. In this way I have a PDF format of the article which I can acce...
