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. Karen is not unused to winning awards. Recently Karen won the prestigious ISTE award ISTE’s SIGOL Online Learning Award in 2014. In 2010 she won a trip to the BETT ICT conference in England as a result of a competition run by the Independent Education magazine, by ...
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 being about an Office Mix that she presented to a group of teachers on a Skype call with Nigeria. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com.
“NetLEARN is proud to once again announce the 2015 MOS Worldwide Championships which will be held in Dallas, Texas USA. We would like to pu...
This is a guest post from Kathryn Riva (@KathRiva), a Microsoft #MIEExpert15 teacher from South Africa. 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 (you will need to (join and) log in first to view this) where you’ll see she has uploaded 13 great activities. ...
This is a post about Mokhudu Machaba one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Mokhudu recently wrote a blog post on our SchoolNet blog about One Note suggesting it could be great to use with project-based learning. Mokhudu’s blog can be found at:
http://projectbasedteaching.wordpress.com In this post we highlight Mockudu’s achievement in receiving the Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer Certificate from Microsoft.
“Dear Mokhudu,
Congratulations! You have successfully completed the MIE Train...
This is a guest post from Mabore Lekalakale of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Please follow Mabore on Twitter. Yesterday we posted a post from Mabore entitled ‘‘Khan Academy Maths – Learners Reality’ by Microsoft #MIEExpert from South Africa, Mabore Lelakala. Today we provide a follow up.
In yesterday’s blog post Mabore Lekalakala posted about Khan Academy and how it can provide beneficial help to Maths students.
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This is a guest post from Mabore Lekalakale of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Please follow Mabore on Twitter.
The reality is that Mathematics is not real to learners, it is strange until one makes sense of it. I am saying this because only few concepts can easily be made real to learners. It is possible though to make Mathematics learners’ real life. With Khan Academy, Mathematics can become learners’ reality. Let us look into this scenario. Imagine a new, very complex but ...
This is another guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s Microsoft MiE Experts for 2015. Linda presented this Offix Mix recvently on a Skype call with Nigeria. Linda has placed this post and this mix on her own blog and and has kindly shared it with us as a guest post on the SchoolNet blog. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com. Last week we shared Linda’’s post about her Skype call with Nigeria. You can access that post here.
The above Mix is a walk-tho...
This is a guest post from Mokhudu Machaba one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Mokhudu writes about One Note suggesting it could be great to use with project-based learning.
Mokhudu’s blog can be found at:
http: //projectbasedteaching.wordpress.com
What is One Note?
Wikipedia says ‘Microsoft OneNote, formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users’ notes handwritten or typed, ...
This is a guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Linda shared a Skype call with Wellington Oboh, a MiE Expert from Nigeria and 62 teachers at a school in Abuja on the importance of the Microsoft Educator Network and the importance of Office Mix. Linda has this post on her own blog and I asked her if I could use it as a guest post on the SchoolNet blog. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com
Well it certainly has been a very busy time in R...
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