Microsoft webinar from the Joburg studio TODAY at 3pm ‘Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts’… Are you the next Microsoft Innovative Educator?
Microsoft is looking for self-driven educators who are passionate about their careers and inspiring students with outside-the-box thinking. 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).
At 3pm just link to this URL http://mva.zoom.ms/. A recording will be ...Read more
On July 5th, 2015 Microsoft announced the availability of DEEP LEADING (http://aka.ms/deepleading), a resource for K-12 School Leadership built as a downloadable OneNote Notebook. The resource was co-authored by Dr Maria Langworthy, the lead researcher for the ITL Research (www.itlresearch.com) and Mark Sparvell, Microsoft.
Teachers and Leaders will find DEEP LEADING valuable as:
A ‘conversation guide’ to facilitate deep learning conversations built around the 21CLD materials.
A coll...
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...
Become a creator of technology. Break into code! Get excited about coding with a new contest from Microsoft Imagine. Break into code! Learn to code! Create a game! Win cash prizes.
Microsoft Imagine introduces the Break Into Code challenge as a beginner level challenge that will get your students excited about coding even if you or they don’t have any previous experience. Microsoft Research’s TouchDevelop gets students of all ages started with a simple, easy to follow tutorial on coding a brick br...
We have exciting news for you. As of today Microsoft and SchoolNet will be launching a competition for teachers who are using one or more of the Microsoft tools mentioned below as part of their teaching.
You could win a trip to the SchoolNet SA ICT in the Classroom conference or a Teaching with Technology Kick-Off session for your school by sharing your idea for using one or more of these Microsoft tools with other teachers and creating a Facebook post about it. More details about prizes are given in t...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
In the next few weeks Microsoft and SchoolNet we will be launching a competition for teachers who are using one or more of the following Microsoft tools as part of their teaching:
Office 365 for Education http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/educators/teacher-resources/default.aspx#fbid=4fEqvPS8bDo
Windows 8 and apps for Education http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/educators/teacher-resources/default.aspx#fbid=4fEqvPS8bDo
OneNote http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/07/...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Microsoft has been running a series of Microsoft Classroom Showcase Roadshows in four venues around the country. School leaders and educators were invited to participate in an afternoon showcase experience to demonstrate how Windows 8 Tablets, Office 365, Microsoft Professional Development and other education tools and resources can help to transform learning. The right technology in the hands of educators with access to the best solutions and pedagogical training will create a fo...
Recently four South African educators recognised as Microsoft MIEExperts for 2015, plus representatives from the Microsoft Showcase School in South Africa Brescia House, attended the Global Forum in Dubai. These are teachers elected for their innovative use of technology in the classroom. This is a newspaper article featuring one of those educators, Phuti Ragophala who is the principal of Pula Madibogo primary in Limpopo. She is seen here with Anthony Salcito, the Vice President of Education ...
Quite often a teacher wishes he/she could learn more about using technology in the classroom – but there seems to be no time! The ideal in this scenario would be a course that is free to all, has a self assessment tool to identify one’s needs, is short, is available online, let’s you works at your own individual pace, has support and extension activities and top marks would be that it meets a recognised criteria such as UNESCO competencies for ICT in Education. Does this sound like some of your tho...
