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Many South African teachers have joined the Microsoft Educator Community to complete online professional development courses, to be part of a global community of teachers, to participate in Skype in the Classroom activities and to share lesson plans and quick tip videos with teachers from around the world.
As of 12 March 2018 new users will only be able to join the Microsoft Educator Community using either a personal Microsoft account or an Office 365 account. According to Sonja Delafosse ...Read more
Congratulations to the following educators who were selected to participate in the E2 Education Exchange taking place in Singapore between 12 and 15 March 2018:
Amanda Calitz – Curro: Riverside
Charmaine Roynon – EDU 365 SA
Jonas Letsoalo – Kgetsa Primary School
Margaret Tracey – Hillcrest High School
Paula Barnard – eFundanathi & eZone at Wits
Xoliswa Mahlangu – Future Nations College
Charl Bloomberg – Curro: Waterfall&nb...
In a webinar this week presented by MIEExpert and Microsoft Ambassador, Ronelle Klinck, () we heard about the partnership offer from Microsoft amd 2Enable in SA and their unbelievable free gift to all South African learners. They have called this offer Mahala.
What is Mahala?
Microsoft South Africa and 2Enable are partnering up to offer all South African school learners (ages 8 – 25 years) free access to Microsoft Office across all your devices as well as 1TB of OneDrive. It is obtained through s...
Microsoft has just announced that the Partner in Learning School Review (PilSR) has been updated, streamlined and re-introduced as the School Transformation Survey and is ready now! It is available at on the Microsoft Educator Community. This is a tool which supports the leadership of 21st Century Pedagogy referenced in the Microsoft Education Transformation Framework http://aka.ms/stframework. It should become a critical tool in your work with individual schools, districts and at system levels as it ...
This really looks like an after-school not-to-be-missed FREE event taking place in Johannesburg at Brescia School on Wednesday 21st September from 3pm – 5pm. Brescia House is well known for their innovative TeachMeets. In the Dabble a new feature is that interactive workshops will be available in the following technologies:
Minecraft in the classroom,
Makey Makey,
EV3 Minestorm Robotics,
Little Bits electronics
3D printing
We Do Logo Robotics
Promethean LED panel,
Promothea...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
Traditionally girls don’t choose IT as a career path, nor do they take IT as a subject. As part of the Microsoft Showcase Schools program, Brescia House School Microsoft Student Ambassadors Teaghan Lucas, Nikita Lledo, Munashe Mujaji and Kristina Heynes , were tasked to run a project to promote IT.
On 25 May 2016 the Brescia Microsoft Student Ambassadors hosted a networking dinner for grade 11 girls who are taking either IT or CAT as subjects. The girls were seated w...
Are you coming to CuriosITy? Wondering what it is all about? We;;…tThere is a fantastic dinner coming up on the 25th May with a great speaker – and all for a good cause. By purchasing a ticket and attending the event you also sponsor 2 Grade 11 girls from broader Johannesburg doing Information Technology or Computer Applications Technology to attend and be inspired by Lori Milner, a modern corporate woman. Please help the Brescia House student ambassadors inspire a new generation of women wa...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
An impressive 160 teachers attended a
Microsoft Educator Community Networking Session held on 22-23 March 2016, in the school holidays, at the Vodacom
supported ICT Resource Centre in Emalahleni. Mpumalanga teachers in the
area were asked to attend a session on one of the days of their school holidays
to learn more about new trends in education for using technology in the
classroom. The sessions were organised by Nomusa
Keninda, eLearning Spec...
Brescia House is having one of their wonderful TeachMeets again
on Tuesday 15th March, from 3pm – 5pm. They call it “a party, IT style!” (Sounds like fun!) This will be an opportunity to celebrate and share
curriculum and technology integration ideas. This is a free event but please pre-register. Their advert ends off with ‘Party surprises
in store!’ If you live in the Joburg area you can’t afford to miss this event!
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Are you looking to be more innovative ideas? Creative ideas? Disruptive
ideas? Then you don’t want to miss this global online event that takes place on
January 30, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time.
What is Hack the Classroom?
Microsoft’s Hack the
Classroom is a free digital event for educators and school leaders designed to
give educators insight into the latest trends in education. Come learn from
education thought leaders, innovative classroom educators, and students who are
changing education by e...
