Registration Interest form now open for the EdTechTeam South Africa Tour 2015 – Featuring Google and iOS for Education
We are pleased to announce the 3rd EdTechTeam South African Google Apps for Education Summit Tour. Please see the details below. We would love to see you all there. Please let any interested colleagues know about this as well.
We invite you to join us for the EdTechTeam South Africa Summit featuring Google and iOS for Education to be held at the Selborne Primary, in East London, and Parklands College in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2015. See the event details here!
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SchoolNet is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our 2015 'ICT in the Classroom' conference in July 2015. Here are some of the important details.
The date of the conference is set for 1-3 July 2015. The venue will be St Mary's School in Kloof, Kwazulu-Natal. With regard to fees, if you book on or before the 30th April the cost is R750. If you book after the 30th April the cost is R850. Wondering who should attend? We ...
Teachers and Senior management teams from the five project schools in KZN attended a two day Learning Gains through Play workshop during the January 2015 school holidays. Thembelihle Primary kindly hosted the workshop which was attended by twenty five participants and a team of facilitators comprising Hlengiwe Mfeka, Tracey Butchart, Senzo Ngcobo and Janet Thomson.
The purpose of the two new modules was to share the findings from the evaluation research with teachers and show how the research objective...
From the online applications that were received and the more than 50 learning activities that were uploaded to the Microsoft Educator Network, sixteen teachers from South Africa and Lesotho were selected to be Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts (MIEs) for 2015. These teachers join a group of 800 educators from more than 100 countries around the world who will enjoy a year long experience with Microsoft as they learn more about creating an environment of innovation in education using technology. O...
SchoolNet SA is pleased to announce their appointment as Google’s Education Partner in South Africa. We will be offering free GEG training workshops around the country as well as overseeing the formation of Google Education Groups (GEGs) in the different provinces. It is hoped to grow South Africa’s pool of voluntary GEG leaders (practising teachers who are ICT champions) from the workshop attendees. These GEG groups and the GEG training are part of Google’s worldwide strategy to help ...
On the weekend of October 10 and 11th the Professional Development programme for the Western Cape Grade 1 and Grade R teachers reached Module 4 (Learning Stations) and Module 7 (Xbox Kinect and Games in the Classroom). The workshops were held at The Metro East District offices in Kuils River, Cape Town.
Day 1 – Module 4 – Learning Stations
At the start of the workshop Rodney Nissen, the facilitator asked teachers to reflect on how they have been using the...
Microsoft and MTN bring you a Maths Challenge this month! It consists of plenty of fun practice and an exciting competition open to all learners in Grade 10, 11 and 12 during 3-9 November 2014. In the competition, the service randomly generates 10 questions for each individual participants corresponding to their grade from a bank of over 9000 questions on Algebraic Expressions and Trigonometry for Grade 10, Equations & Inequalities and Trigonometry for Grade 11, and Sequences & Series and Tr...
In July and August of 2014 Schoolnet conducted Intel Training in 19 schools around South Africa. One such school was Lourier Park School in the Free State. Ms Sandra van der Walt conducted Intel Getting Started training with 23 educators in attendance. They covered Modules 1 – 5 on the first day. The trainer started by giving the trainees some pointers on how to conduct training. She tried to engage the participants in mbe practice questions and discussions around 21st Century ...
The Microsoft in Education Global Forum taking place in Redmond, Washington in March 2015. If you think you’ve got what it takes to be recognised as a Microsoft Innovative Educator, join the Microsoft Educator Network and upload a learning activity that demonstrates how you are using 21st century teaching practices in your classroom by 24 October 2014. See
Microsoft believes that technology alone cannot build 21st century skills for students. Technology is an ac...
SchoolNet South Africa has had the privilege to be funded over the next three years by the D G Murray Trust in South Africa to study the benefits of learning through the use of play and innovative technologies for learners in grades R and 1 in ten schools in two provinces in South Africa, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. The D G Murray Trust has a particular interest in the early primary years where the greatest impact can be made. As the focus of this project is play, we have selected...
