MIEExpert Spotlight #4: Nosithembele Gcobo from Queenstown talks on using Sway and mobile devices in the classroom
This is the fourth post in the series “MIEExpert Spotlight for South Africa”. The tab with all the posts can be found at
Nosithembele Gcobo is a teacher at Sentile Junior Secondary School in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. She describes herself as ‘an innovative, dynamic teacher, ICT integrated and a TBBT – a transformed born before technology innovator!”
She was selected at the end of 2015 as one of South Africa’s 63 Microsoft innovative Educator Experts for 2016. She say...Read more
Brescia House is having one of their wonderful TeachMeets again
on Tuesday 15th March, from 3pm – 5pm. They call it “a party, IT style!” (Sounds like fun!) This will be an opportunity to celebrate and share
curriculum and technology integration ideas. This is a free event but please pre-register. Their advert ends off with ‘Party surprises
in store!’ If you live in the Joburg area you can’t afford to miss this event!
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You can use Sway to create and share interactive reports, presentations and personal stories.
In this webinar @MeganRademeyer and @VictorNgobeni will show you how to create a Sway and they will give you some ideas for using this fun, free presentation tool in your classroom. Guest presenter @PhutiRagophala, a current Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, will show us some of her Sways and how she’s used this tool in the classroom and to spread her ideas.
Time: 3pm (S...
Submitted by Charli Wiggil
This is a guest post from Charli Wiggil (@wiggs2010) Deputy Principal at Eden College in Durban. Charli is one of South Africa’s Microsoft MIEExperts for 2016. You can read more about Charli at https://about.me/CharliWiggill
Should I upgrade to Windows 10?
Over the past few months, we’ve all been inundated with
offers popping-up on our screens recommending we take advantage of a free
Windows 10 upgrade. The pop-ups include the upgrade button, the tantalisi...
The Internet is currently full of posts about using Microsoft products effectively in the classroom. Here are a number of them from this past week:
Why not join the Microsoft Educator Community (free) and connect and collaborate with teachers and ideas for the classroom around the world: https://education.microsoft.com/
Useful Microsoft in Education posts this week #37
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