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Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Network is a global community of educators dedicated to improving student learning worldwide. It is great place to look for free tools and software; tutorials on how to use technology; and tried and tested lesson plans submitted by teachers from around the world. Teachers who are part of this community use it to find colleagues in other countries for collaborative projects; as a place to read about and contribute t...Read more
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The Microsoft in Education Global Forum recognizes and celebrates the achievements of educators who are preparing students for life in the 21st century. Each year, the Microsoft in Education Global Forum brings together participants from the Microsoft Innovative Educators Program and the Microsoft Innovative Schools Program for an energetic, collaborative conference. This year the Global Forum took place in Barcelona, Spain between 11 and 14 March 2014. The Forum was ...
I decided to piece together some information about South Africa’s participation in Microsoft’s Global Forum in Barcelona last week from postings in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – and this post is the result!
Who attended from South Africa and Lesotho?
This amazing event took place in Barcelona, Spain last week.
South Africa had two teacher representatives who had submitted exceptional projects, namely Phuti Ragogeola and Cheryl Douglas.
Lesotho was represented by Ma...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
The teachers and final year Lesotho College of Education teaching students who received Windows 8 mobile phones as part of the Matutoâ„¢ Literacy for Life partnership last year are hard at work creating short stories to share with emerging readers. Feedback from this group led to the creation of the Chekhov Phone App which makes it easy to create and publish a story from a Windows 8 mobile phone. Whilst SchoolNet SA is specifically encouraging Lesotho teachers to share their ...
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Five schools in Mankweng, Limpopo are to be provided with connectivity and Microsoft Windows 8 devices through the TV White Spaces pilot project. SchoolNet SA has been appointed to provide professional development to teachers from these schools to help ensure that they maximise the benefits that a connected classroom bring to education.
So far champion teachers from each of the schools have attended the ICT Skills for Teachers course and in the coming months ...
Brescia House School in Bryanston has been selected by Microsoft as one of 80 outstanding mentor schools from around the world and will be represented at the Partners in Learning Global Forum in Barcelona next month. This story “Mentor schools help others optimize technology’ appeared in the February 11th Star newspaper. In the photo, Lyneth Crighton, head of innovations and staff development at Brescia House can be seen tutoring students in the garden.
This article can be downloaded fr...
Finding time to boost your ICT skills, discuss a hot topic or enhance your CV is hard to come by during term time, but you may want to consider doing one of the free online professional development courses offered through the Microsoft Partners in Learning Network (www.pil-network.com) during the December break. Online courses include ‘Teaching with Technology’, ‘Windows in the Classroom’ and ‘21st Century Learning Design’. You can work through the courses at your own pace and at the en...
Five schools in Limpopo are each being provided with internet connectivity through the TV White Spaces Initiative as well as a bank of Windows 8 Devices per school and access to the Office 365 A2 Education Plan. To ensure that this equipment and connectivity are used for anytime, anywhere learning SchoolNet SA has been appointed by Microsoft to provide training and mentorship to the teachers involved in this project. Teachers have already started with the ‘Partners in Learning ICT Skills for Teachersâ€...
14 November 2013, Johannesburg – They don’t wear capes in the classroom. But give them an educational problem that needs a dash of technology, and their super-powers emerge. They’re Microsoft’s Expert Educators and Mentor Schools for 2013.
Microsoft has just announced three educators and three schools in South Africa to take part in its Expert Educator and Mentor or World Tour Schools programmes. Members of both programmes become part of a global one-year initiative to recognise teachers and sc...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
The AlwaysOn-Learning Solution, built using Office 365, has been implemented at Brescia House School to provide a portal for sharing resources, completing administrative tasks and encouraging communication and collaboration within classes. SchoolNet SA visited the school to speak to teachers, learners and the ICT coordinator to find out how this solution was helping them to integrate technology into teaching and to streamline administration. To read the case study visit this ...
