Conference highlights #8: Microsoft-related presentations from MIEExpert Mochudu Machaba
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Conference highlights #7: ‘Microsoft in the classroom – Warren Sparrow’s presentations on Office 365 and Office Mix
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Conference highlights #6: ‘Rethinking the way we teach’ and other presentations by our Keynote Shelley Shott
Shelley Shot (@sshott_shott) from Intel was the keynote speaker on Day 3 (3rd Juky 2015). She presented the closing plenary keynote. Shelley is well known to South Africans because she was the first Intel facilitator to visit us back in 2003 and has been a frequent presenter at our conferences ever since. As Intel’s Global Education Specialist, Shelley now drives the development and strategy for basic education around the world. A former middle school teacher and current university lecturer, ...Read more
Conference highlights #5: Teachers Thrilled with our recent 2015 Learning Technologies Conference in Durban…report back by Janet Thomson
This is a condensed version of the Conference report submitted by Janet Thomson the Executive Director of SchoolNetSA. The full report can be read on the SchoolNet website.
Over 500 teachers from across South Africa gathered at St Mary’s DSG in Kloof for the ICT in the Classroom conference held between 1 and 3 July 2015. SchoolNet South Africa has been hosting this ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) conference for educators, provincial and national educational department officials, spon...Read more
Conference highlights #4: Resources shared by Holly Clarke one of our keynotes
We loved having Holly Clarke at our Conference. Her keynote was very stirring and well-received (see our Conference day 2 report-back http://goo.gl/hvVhnJ). If you want to know more about Holly this is what she writes in the About section of her blog http://goo.gl/tF4xNH:
Holly has shared her resources for the SchoolNet Conference by means of a Google site . Do take a look… .
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Conference highlights #5: Resources shared by one our conference keynote speakers, Stuart Ball from Microsoft UK
We loved having the energetic Stuart Ball at our Conference. He will long be remembered for his ‘I love PowerPoint’ keynote which was very well-received (see our Conference Day 1 report-back http://goo.gl/VOU0O5).
Stuart is from Microsoft UK and he is responsible for the Microsoft UK Teachers Blog http://goo.gl/7PIbH1
Stuart has shared many of his conference presentations with us.
Here is a list:
a) Microsoft PowerPoint and Learning Styles
https://goo.gl/XlVN8Q
2) Kodukup Teacher Resource Pack...Read more
Conference highlights #3: Ten takeaways from SchoolNetSA’s conference from Phuti Ragaphala, one of our MIEExperts
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Conference highlights#2: Teachers – get started with Twitter
Recently we held the SchoolNet Conference in Kloof, Kwazulu-Natal and the very first session was called ‘Twitter for Beginners’ presented by Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet. Before displaying the presentation let’s talk about Twitter, and, if you are not yet on Twitter perhaps this is the time to join!
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking service that allows its users to send and read short 140-character messages known as tweets. It’s a fantastic way to share ideas an...Read more
Conference highlights – #1 Get to know Microsoft’s Chronozoom by Linda Foulkes
This is the first in a series of posts where we highlight some of the presentations given at the recent SchoolNet 2015 Conference in Kwazulu-Natal. We’re starting with Microsoft’s Chronozoom. At the end of the information on Chronozoom we will embed Linda’s Conference presentation.
What is Chronozoom?
ChronoZoom is a free, open source, cross-platform, openly-authored timeline of the History of Everything. It’s an educational tool for teachers and students who want to put historical events...Read more
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