Microsoft Showcase Classroom free event for educators coming up in Durban, Pretoria and Cape Town. Have you registered? (Time: 12:30pm – 5pm)
Microsoft Showcase Classroom
We invite all school leaders and educators to 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 force that truly transforms education across South Africa.
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Durban
Tuesday, 24th March, 2015
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Microsoft Showcase Classroom
For school leaders and educators to experience how Windows 8 Tablets, Office 365 and Microsoft Professional Development can help transform the classroom through immersive activities, delivered by Tablet Academy.
The right technology in the hands of educators with access to the best solutions and pedagogical training will create a force that truly transforms education across South Africa.
It is for this reason that we would like to invite forward thinking school leader...
Have you tried this llovely new Microsoft product Microsoft Sway? Microsoft’s Sway, an online tool for creating presentation documents, is now generally available to the public. Previously, a waiting list was in place. What makes Sway particularly interesting is that it doesn’t have traditional files, like the original Office suite. So it was built for the cloud! Like PowerPoint it is a presentation tool but quite different!
Some of our South Africa Microsoft MIEExpert teachers have been creati...
Microsoft One Drive (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/) is a great way to store online files and work from Microsoft products online. It comes pre-installed with Windows 8.1. You can either use OneDrive online or you can download it to your computer as well as use it online.
What is One Drive?
OneDrive is free online storage (15GB free) that comes with signing up for a Microsoft account and signing in. It’s like an extra hard drive that’s available from any of the devices ...
Symbaloo is a great way to curate information in a neat, precise ‘webmix’. This morning I made a start in collecting and storing sites where one can find useful Microsoft resources for classroom teaching. I wanted to keep them all in one place and found that storing them on a Symbaloo webmix for easy access worked really well.
Please click on the webmix picture below to be taken to the actual webmix entitled ‘Microsoft Collections’.
Microsoft Collections
If you would like to kno...
Did you know that a disproportionate number of school administrators started out as Maths teachers, –and many are skeptical of the value of technology in the classroom? I received this collection of 63 Maths and Science apps this morning – featuring Wolfram, FluidMath, Corinth, and more! Use this as a great leave behind with your school’s Maths and Science teachers, and Administrators to help differentiate the Windows advantage in the classroom.
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you ever downloaded a recommended application from the Internet and in so doing downloaded some unwanted third party software as well? Yes? It happens to us all at some time or other I think. It happened to me yesterday on my Windows laptop!
Yesterday I put out a tweet about a useful application program that I had discovered and liked, and someone replied mentioning a similar application that they use successfully. So, of course, I decided to download their recommended ...
SchoolNet SA has been providing training and support to champion teachers from five schools in Limpopo that have received internet access and Windows 8 devices through Microsoft’s TV White Spaces project. At the launch event on Wednesday 18 June Simon Matlebjane of Mountainview High School presented some of the ways in which he was integrating technology into his lessons and sharing his computer skills with his colleagues. Delegates then visited Doasho High School to watch a demonstration of a lesson t...
