DBE Teacher Centre Managers training in Johannesburg a great success
Recently SchoolNet facilitated an extremely successful five day DBE Teacher Centre Managers training in Johannesburg. Representatives from 131 centres spread across all nine provinces arrived at Southern Suns O R Tambo for a week-long workshop from August 10th – 15th 2014. The purpose of the training programme was to explore a range of issues related to the functioning and management of Teacher Centres in all provinces in South Africa.
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An exciting new venture was launched by Google in South Africa at the Summit – Google Education groups at this URL: http://www.google.com/landing/geg/ This is a world-wide launch with each country having its own GEGs We invite you to join GEG South Africa. This announcement In South Africa at the Google in Education Summit was received with great excitement. Google believes that the best inspiration to educators are other educators. Go...
Just as in 2013, the Google Summit this year proved to be a huge success. It was a high intensity two days focusing squarely on the integration of technology across the curriculum and primarily on the effective use of Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote learning in the classroom. This year the event was hosted at Dainfern College in Johannesburg on July 3 & 4. A pre-conference day comprised two full-day workshops facilitated by Jay Atwood and James Sa...
The Department of Communications in partnership with the Department of Basic Education has been rolling out end-to-end ICT solutions to selected schools. The selected schools received (and are in the process of receiving) connectivity and hardware, free. Telkom SA has been selected to provide the installations and equipment to the allocated schools in the country with the best construction and roofing companies read this for more info. Intel South Africa is providing free teacher training on the provide...
Nokia Mobile Mathematics (https://momaths.nokia.com) is a free, online grade 10-12 Mathematics support service providing 9000+ CAPS-aligned questions. This service started in 2008 with 300 learners and within a couple of years had grown to 50,000 learners. Nokia then opened the service to informal learning so that students could have 24/7 access to its materials. This service has had major impact in interactive Maths learning. 53% of students are active users. The competence level of the users rose by...
The Microsoft in Education Global Forum recognizes and celebrates the achievements of educators and schools who are creating engaging and innovative learning opportunities for students. This year the Global Forum took place in Barcelona, Spain between 11 and 14 March 2014. It was attended by 260+ Microsoft Expert Educators; 150+ Governmental Education Leaders; and 300+ Top School Leaders from 75 countries including fourteen delegates from South Africa and Lesotho. All delegates agreed...
The teachers and final year Lesotho College of Education teaching students who received Windows 8 mobile phones as part of the Matuto™ Literacy for Life partnership last year are hard at work creating short stories to share with emerging readers. Feedback from this group led to the creation of the Chekhov phone app which makes it easy to create and publish a story from a Windows 8 mobile phone. When you want professional and mobile friendly website, lake worth web design is the company of choice for us....
Teachers in the Cofimvaba ICT4RED project schools have been methodically working through modules of their professional development course since July 2013. The seventh and the eighth module sessions of the ICT4RED Cofimvaba Teacher Professional Development were conducted at Queens College in Queenstown on Saturday 1 February 2014. Module 8 (which was conducted in the morning session) concentrated on the Gallery Walk teaching strategy. Module 7 used the Scavenger Hunt strategy.
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We invite you to join us for the 2nd Annual South Africa Google in Education Summit on 3rd and 4th July 2014 at Dainfern College in Johannesburg. The event is being presented by the EdTechTeam in partnership with SchoolNet South Africa and Dainfern College Please visit the Conference website at http://za.gafesummit.com/ to register for early bird prices and stay tuned for more information. Pre-conference workshops will be held on 1st and 2nd July – the programme is on the conference website....
Last year in October Cape Town experienced the first ever Google Summit in Africa hosted by SchoolNet and Parklands College at Parklands College. It was presented by the amazing EdTech team from the USA and proved to be an exceptionally inspiring event for teachers in the classroom as well as anyone involved in education. Parklands videotaped some of the sessions and SchoolNet has placed four of these videos on the SchoolNet YouTube Channel.
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