Peer coaches from the Western Cape in the Learning Gains through Play project gathered at Temperance Town Primary in Strand for their second training workshop.  Hlengiwe Mfeka, the project manager and the peer coaching facilitator provides an account of this valuable training session.
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The Telkom Foundation, as one of the key sponsors to the 2015 IDOLS SA event, encouraged IDOLS fans to nominate, through social media forums, schools that needed ICT support. Three of these schools would be selected to receive an ICT lab with an interactive whiteboard, projector, printer, and ICT Training for Educators and the Leadership of the school. Fans responded positively to the call and the selected schools were Eden Park Primary School (Gauteng), Mzingwezi High School (Kwa-Zulu Natal) and Gamohana...
On Thursday afternoon 25th August we held a webinar entitled, ‘How to create a tour with Google Earth’ using SchoolNet’s Adobe Connect platform. Our speakers were Keshma Patel, Grade 6 teacher and Judi Francisco, IT Co-ordinator at Micklefield Primary School in Cape Town and they noticed rotten fences in the field. See here to Aspects Of Wood Rot In Fences. The webinar presentation is available online in SlideShare. The recording and a downloadable Google Earth How-to is also available on ou...
Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Experts are global visionaries who pave the way in the effective use of technology for better learning and student outcomes. They help Microsoft to lead innovation in education and they advocate and share their thoughts on effective use of technology in education with peers and policy makers. They provide insight for Microsoft on new products and tools for education, and they exchange best practices as they work together to promote innovation in teaching and learning.
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Join us on 4th August at 3:30 pm on this link: https://goo.gl/1vEOR4 for our first SchoolNet webinar of the season, “How to integrate Augmented Reality successfully in your classroom”. (We will be using Google Hangouts [Live on Air] for these webinars.) This webinar is presented by Ronelle Klinck, Ed Tech Coach at St Stithians Girls School in Johannesburg. In this webinar, Ronelle demonstrates the steps to integrate Augmented Reality successfully in your classroom. Ronelle says, “...
SchoolNet has written a series of case studies on teachers who are making use of technology to enhance teaching and learning at their schools. This month, we focus on Adil Mungalee, the Deputy Principal of Dr Yusuf Dadoo Primary School in Roodepoort and the 2015 winner of the Gauteng Teachers Awards for the ICT Enhanced Teaching and Learning category. Adil has made extensive use of OneNote to set up a paperless filing system for himself and his colleagues which has been widely shared with other schoo...
Hlengiwe Mfeka, Megan Rademeyer and Janet Thomson of SchoolNet attended EduWeek 2016 Â which was held at Gallagher Estate in Johannesburg recently. Â They report on their experiences of the conference as well as their involvement in the Intel panel discussion on Gaming in Education and the hardware use for it as good gaming headsets for pc and others. The panel included gaming experts from varied fields; Koos de Beer, Junior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, Andreas Cent Hadjipaschali, Director & CEO,...
A graduation ceremony and showcase was organised because teachers and principals in the project had completed the first two components of the professional development of the Learning Gains project. This comprised the ICT4RED modules from the Learning and Teaching with Mobile Devices course as well as SchoolNet’s Change Leadership course for senior management teams. The next professional development component, currently underway, is Peer Coaching,which will last until the end of 2016. The graduation cere...In previous issues of the SchoolNet SA newsletter you may have read about some of the current Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts and the opportunities they have had to attend the E2 Educator Exchange in Budapest or the Global Microsoft in Education Forum in Dubai. If you are using Microsoft  technologies in innovative ways in your classroom, apply to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, and you too may have the opportunity to experience professional networking events and collaboration with other...
The Worcester Education District office recently hosted a week long tertiary education development on E-learning for all Curriculum advisors. The intention was to ensure that all curriculum advisors had the necessary tools and awareness about ICTs in Education to ensure optimal use of technology in the WCED schools. A number of projects are on the go, with E-Learning specialists taking the lead, however the time has come for all education officials to take the lead and ensure that all technology provide...
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