SchoolNet is proud of one of their project managers, Hlengiwe Mfeka, who was featured in the Echo Maritzburg recently on World Teachers’ Day.
The link to the article in the Echo Maritzburg of the 16th October can be found on this link for further reading: http://goo.gl/AgZZDp
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The Department of Communications, in partnership with Department of Basic Education has been rolling out end-to-end ICT solutions to selected 1650 schools. Telkom SA has been selected to provide the installations and equipment to the participating schools in the country. As part of the complete solution which includes internet access (education site only), hardware (computer equipment) and training to schools. The Department has a Memorandum of Understanding with Intel South Africa to provide free teache...
A number of schools in KwaZulu-Natal have been visited to encourage teachers to sign up for the Partners in Learning Network, known as the Microsoft Educators Network form 2014 (see www.pil-network.com). SchoolNet SA’s two KwaZulu-Natal based trainers have also made an effort to encourage teachers to sign up during other training sessions. Some of these sessions are described below:
Isibongo Primary: Mpophomeni Township
Isibongo Primary School received nine tablets for participating in the Touchable ...
When and how?
Date: Sat., April 5, 2014
Time: 9:00am PT/10:00am MT/11:00am CT/12:00pm ET/6pm SAST (South Africa)
Location: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live
What is a Classroom 2 Live Show?
Peggy George, Lorie Moffat and Tammy Moore will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE show. As an extension to the Classroom 2.0 Ning community, Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” shows are opportunities to gather with other educators in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing and closed caption...
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 attended by mor...
Pearson’s forwarded us information about this International competition for teachers (and schools) and I thought it would be a great idea to promote it via our SchoolNet blog. Closing date is May 2nd 2014.
Information follows:
Read about last year’s winners
Read what the 2013 winners had to say about the competition here
School & Teacher of the Year Awards
The second annual School and Teacher of the year Awards will be presented at the 21CLHK December 2014 conference at the Hon...
submitted by Hlengiwer Mfeka
KwaMashu, KZN: Isibonelo Secondary School opened their new fully fledged-computer lab that may be used to preparing learners for the 21st century economy on 21 February 2014. The lab resulted from the efforts between giveITback and EasyPay. The effort is an example of how public-private partnerships are still a viable option to mobilize resources and enhance efforts to bridge a digital divide.
The lab include 36 new modern computers equipped with educational soft...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo of SchoolNet
The National Teaching Awards has, since 2000, sought to pay tribute to South African teachers who work daily miracles at their schools. The 2014 National Teaching Awards was held on the 6th March at the Birchwood Hotel in Gauteng. The awards culminated in a night of wonder for finalists who were celebrated by the President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, his Education Ministers Ms Angie Motshekga, and Enver Surty; the Director General, Mr. Bobby Soobrayan, the MECs for ...
The ENO Programme calls schools in the world to join ENO Treelympics, olympiads for tree planting. Their target is to plant 100 million trees by 2017. This commitment was made in the Rio+20 Summit in June 2012. To boost the participation of schools for 100 million trees by 2017, ENO will launch ENO Treelympics, starting 21 March and ending 24 October. 21 March is proclaimed the International Day of Forests by the United Nations.
Every school is invited to take part and plant trees . After...
Submitted by Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet
Intel has been conducting training for teachers around South Africa using SchoolNet to conduct the training. Here are reports on how the training progressed at two of the schools.
Marotse Primary School
This school lies in Atameleng in the North West province. It received sponsorship of computer hardware and an interactive whiteboard through MTN. This venue also has stable connectivity even when all users are connected simultaneously. Eighteen teachers att...
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