Teachers, ever wondered what takes place at Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Global Forum?
Submitted by Fiona Beal with excerpts from the amazing blog Bulldog Readers belonging to Julie Hembree of Seattle, a Global Forum finalist from the US.
Teachers, it is time to start preparing to enter Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Forum for 2013, best known as the Microsoft Innovative Educator competition. This competition takes place in 119 countries around the globe and culminates in the Global Forum where the world winners are revealed… being a winner in this forum will change your life...Read more
Introducing Eunice High School
Eunice was the first school in South Africa to be selected for the Microsoft Innovative Schools programme several years back. After that their principal, Paul Cassar, was the first South African educator to be featured on Vice President of Microsoft – Antony Salicito’s blog ‘Daily Edventures – Antony Salicito’s 365-day look at global heroes‘. (Take a read by clicking on the image below). So it is not surprising that Eunice would take the initiative of la...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer of SchoolNet
From 27 – 29 September 2012 more than 200 participants from 25 countries participated in the Middle East and Africa Partners in Learning Forum held in Marrakesh, Morocco. Included in the group were seven winning teachers from the South African and Lesotho Partners in Learning Forums who presented their projects to other innovative teachers from the region.
We are proud of our two winners from SA and Lesotho
Charli Wiggill (from Eden College in D...
Over the last two weeks Microsoft Partners in Learning in Johannesburg has been holding weekly webinars on Wednesday evenings on assessing 21st Century skills and using the LEAP21 materials. These are held on Wednesdays from 6pm – 6:30 pm. Please use the following URL to join but if you are joining the Lync webinar platformfor the first time you’ll be asked to download an add-on for Lync and that might take a while (give yourselves 40 mins to be safe!) Here is the link: https://join.microsof...
On Wednesday evening 18th July (and for another four Wednesdays after that) Microsoft Partners in Learning, Johannesburg is running a LEAP21 series of webinars on assessing 21st century skills, from 6 – 6:30 pm using their Lync webinar software. The one on Wednesday 18th is the first in a series on the five dimensions of 21st Century learning.
Join ALL the online meetings at this web address https://join.microsoft.com/meet/v-angels/Q6Z25RJQ.
This webinar series will focus on innovative ...
Microsoft has embarked on an ‘Innovative Teaching and Learning’ (ITL) research programme. They will be hosting workshops and webinars on LEAP21. The first webinar on 18 July from 6pm – 6:30pm will focus on the first of the five dimensions 21st century learning (collaboration).This discussion Forum will allow all participants of LEAP21 training to connect and discuss the topic.
View the discussion forum on the Partners in Learning Network for details on joining the webinar. Note that i...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Currently I am busy running a course for teachers that includes four of the Microsoft Free tools, namely AutoCollage, Windows Live Movie Maker, Songsmith and Photostory 3. These tools are fantastic to use for technology integration and can be obtained free by joining the Partners in Learning Network, and downloading them. Have you taken a look at the new Partners in Learning Network? It really is quite amazing and has a wealth of resources available for teachers. Some of th...
This is a news release from Microsoft about the winners of the 2012 Partners in Learning Forum in South Africa. 20 finalists were chosen and they attended the finals in Durban. Microsoft sponsored the finalists to attend the South African Basic Education Conference and the winners were announced at a ceremony at the conference. Photos have been added by the editor.
Durban – 3 April 2012
Projects that encourage learners to tell stories digitally; find solutions to rehabilitate a local pol...
