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TeachMeet at Microsoft, Johannesburg on 4 June – inspiring!
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Monday 4 June 2012 at 15:00 Microsoft hosted its second TeachMeet at its Johannesburg offices. Teachmeets are the new informal type of professional development where teachers share for three minutes by means of a laptop and data projector on something they have done in their classrooms involving technology integration. Approximately 120 teachers, including officials from the Department of Education in Gauteng and North West Province, squeezed into the allocated room to hear ...Read more
First TeachMeet in KZN held at St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Quite a number of TeachMeets have taken place around South Africa recently. I have been privileged to attend two in the last month in person and one virtually! Just a reminder about what TeachMeets are again– they are informal free gatherings where the teacher attendees are the presenters in matters concerning technology-integration in the classroom, and the focus is on the needs and wants of those attending. They are normally directed 100% to those attending, and teachers come ...Read more
A report back on a TeachMeet at Somerset House on 23rd May 2012
Submitted by Fiona Beal
On Wednesday 23rd May at 17:30 I excitedly attended the TeachMeet in Somerset West at Somerset House Preparatory School. They were hosting the first ever TeachMeet in the Helderberg Basin, organised by their enthusiastic ICT teacher, Siobhan Louw.
There was an excited buzz with at least 30 teachers from the surrounding areas turning up to see what this was all about. We started off with a delicious light meal of a variety of soups and breads and then it was down to business!&nbs...Read more
Upcoming TeachMeets in South Africa
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Have you been to a TeachMeet or iPadMeet in South Africa yet?
Recently I attended another of Elkanah House’s TeachMeets (Elkanah House is a school in Tableview, Cape Town), and I asked Linda Foulkes if I could use her blog post as a guest post. Linda is responsible for the training and testing of Grade 8 to 10 students on the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification. She is a Microsoft Office Expert and ICDL Advanced Trainer. In addition to her role as Staff Trainer and High School ICT Integration support (ICT Department), she also belongs to the Academic...Read more
A day once only imagined has arrived – a virtual International TeachMeet!
Submitted by Fiona Beal
If you had told me several years back that the time would come when teachers around the world could share ideas in a group verbally, visually and virtually right from the comfort of their own homes, I would probably have laughed (to myself). But the day HAS come! I experienced it myself on Saturday 17th December. Bart Verswijvel from Belgium, one of the organisers of this International TeachMeet said, prior to the occasion, “On Saturday I will have more than 25 visitors co...Read more
Report back on the Elkanah House TeachMeet and IpadMeet
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Saturday 26 November 2011
This morning I woke up feeling excited. It was TeachMeet day at Elkanah house! Two ‘meets‘ to look forward to at the same venue – one to do with general technology (TeachMeet) and one to do with using Ipads in the classroom (Ipadmeet). I have written about TeachMeets before on this blog. https://www.schoolnet.org.za/2011/08/why-not-hold-teachmeet-in-your-area.html. They are a very exciting form of professional development. I have b...Read more
Elkanah House runs with the TeachMeet idea in the Western Cape
This is a guest post by Linda Foulkes ot Elkanah House in Table View. Linda is responsible for the training and testing of Grade 8 to 10 students on the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification. She is a Microsoft Office Expert and ICDL Advanced Trainer. In addition to her role as Staff Trainer and High School ICT Integration support (ICT Department), she also belongs to the Academic Department as Grade 8 Tutor Teacher. Linda absolutely loves spending her time researching social media and relevant techno...Read more
Microsoft introduces TeachMeets into South Africa
Microsoft South Africa recently combined with SchoolNetSA to introduce the first TeachMeet into South Africa. It was great to be part of this historic occasion. These gatherings of teachers are fast becoming a very popular form of professional development in the USA and in many European countries, in the field of technology integration in education. In European countries they are called ‘Teachmeets’ while in the USA they are named ‘Ed Camps’.
Microsoft’s advertisement of the TeachMee...Read more
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