Report back on TeachMeet at Clarendon Primary on Tues 25 March 2014 at 3pm #ELTeachmeet
TeachMeets are a fantastic opportunity for meaningful and enjoyable professional development. Stirling Primary and Clarendon Primary in East London take it in turns to run a TeachMeet for local teachers oncce a term.’Keen Beans’ present a three minute presentation and the ‘Enthusiastic Lurkers’ enjoy the presentations. Everybody has a great time and takes back loads of ideas to use in the classroom. Claire Dean from Stirling and Sharon Cox from Clarendon run these Tea...Read more
This is a guest post from Linda Foulkes from Elkanah House who runs a regular TeachMeet at Elkanah House every term for teachers around Cape Town. This post was on her blog so I asked if I could use it as a guest post. Linda’s students at Elkanah House have just won, for the second year in a row the 2014 Microsoft Office Specialist Championships and will be competing in the World Championships in Disneyland in july. Not only that her students have won the Adobe Certipot competition in So...
There’s a TeachMeet taking place this Saturday from 10h00 – 12h00 at Elkanah House in TableView, Cape Town. The TeachMeet will be facilitated by Linda Foulkes from Elkanah House High School.
Linda says, “Please ‘Save the date – 31st May 2014’ as we would love you to attend our TeachMeet@Elkanah from 10h00 – 12h00. If you are unable to attend, please spread the word to your colleagues. You are welcome to attend as a Keen Bean and contribute an idea – something which w...
TeachMeets are a fantastic opportunity for meaningful and enjoyable professional development. We, at Schoolnet, love to help schools get started on implementing a teachmeet in their area and we have designed a TeachMeet wiki to keep track on teachmeets taking place (see http://teachmeet-southafrica.wikispaces.com/). Two such schools are Stirling Primary and Clarendon Primary in East London who take turns in hosting a TeachMeet once per term. The two teachers who run with the preparations are Cla...
This is a guest post from Linda Foulkes from Elkanah House who runs a regular TeachMeet at Elkanah House every term for teachers around Cape Town. This post was on her blog so I asked if I could use it as a guest post. (I have added in pics of each presenter)
Linda says:“Even though this time of the year is extremely busy for most, it was well attended. Thank you so much to all who made the effort to join the event – I am sure that you all will agree that the meet was definitely worth atten...
There’s going to be a TeachMeet at Elkanah House this coming Saturday from 10-12 and you are invited! Come as a Keen Bean (presenter) or an Enthusiastic Lurker (participant). These TeachMeets ar always wonderful and I learn so much.
Linda Foulkes who is organising the TeachMeet says on Facebook ‘We have a wonderful line up of Keen Beans for the upcoming TeachMeet@Elkanah on the 2 November – don’t forget to sign up – just fill out this form to join us!http://goo.gl/xQm...
Submitted by Megan Rademeyer
To date almost 3 000 people have received training at a Vodacom ICT Resource Centre including those who have attended Intel Getting Started, Microsoft ICT Skills for Teachers or Sizanani ICT Skills for Community members courses offered by trainers trained by SchoolNet SA.
Vodacom Centre Managers trained in setting up a blog and starting a TeachMeet
In October 2013 the managers of the Vodacom ICT Resource Centres learnt new skills to share with teachers in their communitie...
TeachMeets are a great way to be exposed to new webtools that other teachers are using successfully in their classrooms. We keep a record of these on the TeachMeet South Africa wiki http://teachmeet-southafrica.wikispaces.com/. This wiki also gives ideas on how you can start a teachMeet at your school.
What is a TeachMeet?
A tiny professional development “un-conference” where teachers get together to simply share ideas or lessons using ICT as a tool using different devices. If one can...
This is a guest post from the organiser of the TeachMeet at Elkanah House, Linda Foulkes, from her blog http://folklind.wordpress.com. Thank you Linda!
We had a wonderful turnout at the TeachMeet @ Elkanah House on Saturday, 8th June! Out of all the attendees we had thirteen presentations lined up for the morning. It is absolutely great to see so many teachers who are willing to share and collaborate with others. It was a very fruitful
morning for all concerned as we de...
If you live in Cape Town and want to know more about creating movies in the classroom, or maybe you have ideas to share on how you have done this – please join our 1.5 hours networking & ToolTeach on Thursday afternoon from 4pm – 5:30pm at St Cyprians. This is something new that we would like to introduce to Cape Town teachers.
At a recent Innovation workshop Glenn Bunger from LEAP Schools, Corrine Cornelius from St Cyprians and Fiona Beal from SchoolNet felt they wante...
