MIEExpert Spotlight #3: Keshma Patel – Project-based learning, 1:1 technology, student websites and Minecraft!
This is the third post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Keshma
Patel, a Grade 6 teacher at Micklefield Primary School for girls in Cape Town
and a 2016 Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, believes that: “as a teacher your learning
should never end. Education is ever changing. You never have a dull moment.
There are always new goals to set, new ideas to explore and different ways to
inspire young minds.” ...Read more
This is the second post in the series “MIEExpert
Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Brescia House School in Johannesburg is well known for its
standards of excellence in education. It is a private Catholic school for girls that rates the use of
technology as a high priority for all students at the school. The girls use
different devices to suit the needs to the various age groups, for example
iPads are used in the Foundation Phase; Windows 8 ta...
Microsoft and SchoolNet SA recently congratulated the 61 new 2016 South African and Lesotho Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts who have been selected to be part of the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert programme for 2015-2016. In this series of posts we will be highlighting these MIEExperts. We thought we would start with Warren Sparrow
Warren is the Head of Information and Communications Technology at Rondebosch Boys’ Preparatory School.
Warren in the news!
Warren has re...
This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com.
This year eight teachers from South Africa, who had been selected as Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts for 2015 attended one of the two Global Forums as part of their prize. In the last post we will featured a report back on the Dubai Global Forumby Karen Stadler. Today Karen Linda Foulkes reports back on her visit to Redmond...
This is a guest post from Karen Stadler one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2015. Karen teaches at Elkanah House Senior Primary and is well known globally especially for her Travelling Rhino project and her award-winning wiki. This post can also be found on her blog on this link.
This year eight teachers from South Africa who had been selected as Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts 2015 attended one of the two Global Forums as part of their prize. In the next two posts we will ...
This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda has contributed a number of blog posts on this blog in the past the most recent encouraging teachers to enter their students for the Microsoft Office Championships 2015 . Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com. Linda is currently attending the week-long 2015 E2 Global Educator Exchange in Redmond washington along with three other South African teachers!
Being chosen as ...
This is a profile of Kathryn Riva (@KathRiva), a Microsoft #MIEExpert15 teacher from South Africa. Kathryn has contributed a post on this blog before namely ‘My First Microsoft Sway and how I got started’. Visit her class blog at http://kidblog.org/MrsRsClass-14/ and her Grade 5 wiki at: https://micklefieldgrade52014.wikispaces.com/ Kathryn’s profile on the Microsoft Educator Network can be found at http://www.pil-network.com/profile/resources/93c9c707-803f-4fac-a53b-bc1e294a0b5e (y...
This is a profile from Phuti Ragopahala, one of South Africa’s Microsoft #MIEExperts for 2015. Phuti is a school principal who will be travelling to the Microsoft Global Forum in Dubai in a week’s time. Her blog can be seen at http://itandiksproject.blogspot.com/ . She has also written a hguest post for the SchoolNet blog on using Windows Movie maker. Her Microsoft Sway can be found at https://sway.com/q1BMnYZek9jiD3ZI. Phuti was the ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year Winner in South Africa in 2011.&nbs...
This is a guest post from Phuti Ragopahala, one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2015. Phuti is a school principal who will be travelling to the Global Forum in Dubai in a week’s time. Her blog and this post can be seen at http://itandiksproject.blogspot.com/ . Her Microsoft Sway can be found at https://sway.com/q1BMnYZek9jiD3ZI
What I’ve learnt in life is that one of the powerful tool of learning is through sharing of knowledge so that we can harvest some innovative ideas from each o...
