A South African educator heads off to the Google Teacher Academy in New York next month
Submitted by Fiona Beal
The Google Teacher Academy is not really all that well known in South Africa yet, but in countries like the USA, Britain and Australia, teachers who are interested in integrating the curriculum with technology clamour to attend. Just as Microsoft has its popular products and free tools, Google provides very useful programs such as Blogger blogs, Google Forms, Google Chrome with its huge selection of extensions designed to make browsing a dream, and Google Reader as a place to r...Read more
Here is today’s schedule for Connected Educator’s month. The full official and regularly-updated calendar can be found at http://connectededucators.org/cem. Please consider participating in some of these superb wenbinars. Please note that the times are Eastern Daylight Time, so you will need to refer to the Time Zone Converter to work out the times in your region. Don’t forget that the times are Eastern Daylight Time, so you will need to refer to the Time Zone Converter to work out the ...
Submitted by Janet Thomson, Executive Director of SchoolNetSA
On 2-4 July 2012 I attended Education Week which is one of the the largest education conferences and exhibitions in Africa. It was held at the Sandton Centre in Johannesburg. This post serves to highlight some of the presentations given during Education Week 2012.
1) How to use and build online communities
by Janet Thomson, Executive Director of SchoolnetSA
The organisers of the African Education Week conference requested S...
submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently we have had a virtual Global Education Conference taking place which was really great (http://globaleducation.ning.com/), but this led me to to think about other technology face-to-face conferences I have attended this year and how I have benefitted from them. To tell the truth I REALLY love face-to-face technology conferences. There is just nothing that compares with seeing friends and colleagues that you don’t normally get to see at these conferences, shaking their han...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I have just been reading about the 2011 K-12 online conference (presumably from the USA) that will be taking place starting 28 November. I have never participated in an online conference before but would like to do so this time to see what it is like, and of course, depending on whether there are topics that will be of interest.
Here is a quote from their website:
“The 2011 K-12 Online Conference theme is “Purposeful Play,†and this year our conference will be ...
An exciting event
The Partners in Learning Middle East Innovative Education Forum took place in Aqaba, Jordan last week.
This is a photo of our South African and Lesotho team of 20 who attended the Forum in Jordan. The group consisted of Innovative Teacher winners, Innovative Schools representatives, judges for the event and our local Partners in Learning APM, Angela Schaerer.
We are so pleased to announce that members of our group, who were all regional winners in July in South...
I think it is wonderful when a school takes initiative and plans a really exciting ITC programme for the local teachers. Elkanah House in Tableview has worked really hard in this regard to provide a great interactive programme for teachers in all subjects who are interested in combining their curriculum with technology (Sept 30th and October 1st). They have called on the expertise of EdTechConf to aid them in this endeavour.
Click on this picture to look at the provisional programme (if that doe...
This guest post is submitted by Karen Stadler, a Senior Primary technology integration co-ordinator at Elkanah House, a private school in Cape Town. Elkanah House has been consistently introducing many new technology initiatives in their endeavour to integrate technology with classroom teaching. You can read Karen’s post about how technology happens at their school at . (This was actually a competition entry for which she won a trip to the BETT conference in the UK in 2010). One of...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Any teacher interested in integrating technology with the curriculum would jump at a chance to visit Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond to attend their Partners in Learning Institute, wouldn’t they? Well I consider myself in that category and from 24th – 31st July I had the privilege of such a visit! This PIL Institute is a new part of Microsoft’s vision for teachers, and you could be one of the next attendees! Microsoft is planning many more of these training eventsâ€...
