Top achievers: meet the 2015 ISPA SuperTeacher Competition winners – 2016 competition launched!
Guest post submitted by Sharon Ries of CozaCaresDigital Learning Day is being celebrated across the United States today, Wednesday 17 February. Other countries around the world have been encouraged to submit information about their events today as well, on the Twitter handle @OfficialDLDay and the hashtag #DLD. CoZa Cares Foundation is choosing to launch the 2016 ISPA SuperTeacher Competition on this day – and so a little balloon will be featured over Johannesburg on the DLD map of the w...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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Next Vista for Learning (http://www.nextvista.org/) is a wonderful video sharing site directed at teachers and students. Videos on Next Vista are made by teachers and students for teachers and students. Throughout the school year Next Vista hosts video creation contests for students and teachers. The owner of this site is Rushton Hurley, a marvelous motivational education speaker who has been out to South Africa frequently to speak at various conferences for teachers. I have heard him twice at Google for...
We would like to alert our South African teachers to this great opportunity – the iEARN Photography and Design Challenge 2016. The closing date is 15th January 2016.
What is the challenge?
The iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) Photography and Design Challenge is an online challenge which invites iEARN members to produce photography or graphic designs that deliver a message and reflect a concept and purpose.
The iEARN Photography and Design Challenge is open to all iEARN pa...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Yesterday I received an email from Kottie Christie-Blick in New York. She mentions a very interesting opportunity for a South African teacher. This is what she says:
“I enjoyed my time living in South Africa and visiting the schools. I’m now back in New York and am working on two projects that may be of interest to your South African teachers. One is an interactive website my students and I recently created to provide an audience for children t...
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), working in partnership with the Brunei Darussalam Government, wishes to announce Master’s Degree scholarships for five people from Commonwealth countries, preferably working in Higher Education Institutions or Departments of Higher Education, to study on a full-time basis in Brunei Darussalam for one or two years.
The scholarships are available for programmes commencing in July/August 2016 in three participating institutions in Brunei Darussalam.
Universiti...
SchoolNetSA has received an email from a teacher in Canada who is offering a wonderful opportunity to a Grade 6 or 7 teacher and class in SA in digital storytelling as from September 2016 and probably continuing till the same time the following year. Would you be interested? You would need constant access to computers. The teacher would need to be open to using photography and making digital stories with his/her students. Experience with those media forms is not necessary as Hoa Truong-White will ...
This is a message from Cara Turner about SiliconCape Women’s School workshops in Cape Town
What are we trying to do?
Open girls’ and young women’s eyes to the world of digital and technology and the vast opportunities there.
Provide them with knowledge and background idea of the spaces involved.
Give practical demonstrations of skills and application in the tech-related fields.
Equip them with sufficient digital skills/knowledge to allow them to take the next steps (f...
Coding is the new important language! Every school-going child everywhere deserves to be fluent in coding by the time they leave school. The post that follows tells of a great coding opporunity coming up and is taken from the Cape Town Science Centre’s website: http://ctsc.org.za/africacodeweek/
A joint initiative by SAP, Simplon, Galway Education Center and Cape Town Science Centre, Africa Code Week is a one-of-kind educational initiative taking place in October 2015 across 11 countries. Spark...
This is a message from Peter Wakker from the Computer Olympiad in South Africa
“Are you aware that apart from the Applications Olympiad and Programming Olympiad, we also run the Talent Search? The Talent Search is intended to identify, encourage, and develop computational thinking; the skill needed in Maths, Science, IT and CAT. http://www.olympiad.org.za/talent-search/
Computational Skills
How many learners at your schools have strong computational skills? How does that compare to lear...
