Think about entering the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship for students between the ages of 13 and 22
In its 14th year currently, the 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) attracted 600,000 unique candidates who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products. 145 student finalists from 47 countries participated in the final round of competition.
“More than 1.2 billion people use Office worldwide, and these students have taken the time to set themselves apart as the best of the best,” said Alison Cunard, general manager of Learning Experiences at Micros...Read more
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The Microsoft Teaching with Technology course is a free online, self-study course available through the Microsoft Educator Network. It begins with a diagnostic assessment which then advises a participant which of the following modules he or she should complete in order to be awarded a Teaching with Technology certificate:
Why does UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers promote technology literacy
Selecting ICT resources to support curriculum outcomes
How do techno...
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Between 15 and 18 September 2015, fifty two ICT trainers from all provinces attended a workshop at the Microsoft Training Centre. The workshop had the theme of “Using Technologies Optimally for Quality Learning and Teaching” and aimed to equip core trainers with knowledge and skills around a number of ICT in education tools and programmes which they can then implement in their province.
Amongst the tools covered were Microsoft Math, Skype in the Classroom, 2Enable, Voda...
If you are following along on the Twitter hashtag #dbeicttrainer you’ll notice that some great training is taking place this week. The DBE National #ICT Core Training Team workshop is underway in Johannesburg, led by Victor Ngobeni from Microsoft and Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet. 50 core trainers from all provinces are building skills and learning about tools and courses to take back to their teachers.
DDG Themba Kojana set the scene for the week of learning ahead.
Nadia Albino from @UNI...
Are you and your students using One Note? OneNote is a powerful note-taking tool created by Microsoft. Some say it is one of the best note-taking applications available. OneNote has been around for quite some times as part of the Microsoft Office suite but now Microsoft has made this free digital notebook available separately via Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Chrome. It is such a versatile, useful application that it should be used by everyone!
OneNote looks like a digital notebook with ...
In August we displayed a post about entering for the Microsoft Innovative Educator program for 2015. Click on the image below to be taken to the recording. If you have a collaborative spirit, are resourceful and entrepreneurial, relish the role of being a change agent, and work to achieve excellence in education using advanced technologies and social media – then you may have what it takes to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIE).
Megan Rademeyer and Victor Ngobeni presented a webinar toge...
In its 14th year, the 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) attracted 600,000 unique candidates who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products. 145 student finalists from 47 countries participated in the final round of competition.
“More than 1.2 billion people use Office worldwide, and these students have taken the time to set themselves apart as the best of the best,” said Alison Cunard, General Manager of Learning Experiences at Microsoft. “Ear...
SchoolNet’s Megan Rademeyer and Microsoft’s Victor Ngobeni are presenting a monthly Microsoft Virtual Academy webinar on the various Microsoft Education tools and programmes along with suggestions and examples of how teachers can use these tools in their classrooms. Some sessions have been pre-recorded, but as from August 2015, the monthly webinars will be broadcast live. Look out the broadcast dates and time on the Microsoft in Education – South Africa and Lesotho Facebook page if you would ...
In August 2015 SchoolNet’s Megan Rademeyer travelled to the Seychelles to conduct a three day capacity building session with curriculum developers at the Seychelles Ministry of Education on behalf of Microsoft. The training involved working with officials from the Centre for Curriculum Assessment and Teacher Support, the Schools Division and the Seychelles Institute of Teacher Education (SITE) to develop strategies for integrating technology into the curriculum and assessment policies. The workshop gav...
Boaramelo SS, Lekhulong SS, Concordia SS and Sehunelo SS are four schools that attended the Microsoft Help Desk course facilitated by SchoolNet. The trainer’s approach to the group was different to the way he usually conducted training and as a result teachers and learners paid better attention. This also created enthusiasm and a competition amongst the groups. Understanding the hardware is the chapter that most trainees enjoyed the most because the training was conducted in a classroom and participant...
