A Community and School in Witbank Goes Online

Witbank Primêre Skool gets an ICT Lab! A hidden gem, called Witbank, lies in a farm area, 140 Kilometres away from Poffader, in the Northern Cape Province. The small community of Witbank consists of approximately 500 people and has been in existence for 112 years! Though the community has been in existence for such a long time, there have been limited work and learning opportunities in the community. At the heart of the community lies Witbank Primêre Skool, a multigrade farm school that caters to Grade...

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Attend a Grow with Google Training led by SchoolNet South Africa

  Join SchoolNet South Africa in partnership with Google for FREE workshops to grow your skills, career, or business. Google Training Name Date Time YouTube Link Business profile on Google 6 August 2021 16:00 – 17:00 Create your digital marketing strategy  11 August 2021 16:00 – 17:00 Use Google workspaces for your business 12 August 2021 16:00 – 17:00 Make Google my business work for you  18 August 2021 16:00 – 17:00 Create your digital marketing strategy 1...

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Become a Master Trainer

The Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) CDELTA programme has proved very successful to teachers and officials in South Africa. The COL, in partnership with SchoolNet, is bringing you another Professional Development opportunity. The Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) is an international course to all Commonwealth countries and provides a framework for fostering digital learning and developing skilled citizens for lifelong learning. The goal of this programme is to h...

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This Week’s SchoolNet SA Training Sessions

Here is a list of training sessions SchoolNet SA will be hosting this week: Session Date RSVP link Remote Learning with Google Classroom 20 Oct 2020 The Secret to Self Promotion 21 Oct 2020 Creating Lessons for Social Sciences 22 Oct 2020 https://www.schoolnet.org.za/wp-content/uploads/InShot_20201019_075607057.mp4 ...

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Teacher reflection on our C Delta course

SchoolNet is currently conducting C-Delta training at various schools across South Africa. We asked Busisiwe Mazibuko, the Business Studies and Economics teacher at Phendukani High school, to reflect on her C-Delta training.                  View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by SchoolNet SA (@schoolnetsa) on Feb 19, 2020 at 5:28am PST The purpose o...

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This is what dedication looks like

December, a festive season, and usually a time for holiday planning was spent in a flurry of activity for SchoolNet. In partnership with SYSPRO and the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS), SchoolNet facilitated workshops to over two hundred and fifty (250) youth and community members in three provinces. Workshops were hosted in Gauteng (Yeoville, Dobsonville, and Alexandra), Limpopo (Lephalale) and KwaZulu Natal (Eshowe and Madadeni). The Digital skills and Literacy programme as ...

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Join our free online courses for South African teachers

SchoolNet is offering two free online courses this month for South African teachers. Both courses are ‘work-at-your-pace in a support base’ courses and include a weekly optional webinar. The first offer is a four-week Schoolnet blogging course co-ordinated by Fiona Beal. The second course is a twitter course. This is co-ordinated by Maggie Verster, our social networking guru in South Africa. SchoolNet is partnering with Maggie and is providing the webinar platform for weekly webinars over fo...

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Peer Coaching in Bloemfontein – transformational!

Submitted by Fiona Beal On Friday 21st October and Saturday 22nd October I was very privileged to be able to attend the last two sessions of Sarietjie Musgrave’s Peer Coaching workshop at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. This was a large group of at least fifty teachers. Sarietjie was aided by Mrs Bouwie van der Walt. I was also able to visit Eunice High School in Bloemfontein for the day on Thursday 20th October to observe the benefits of the peer coaching progr...

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Thinkquest training in Ghana

This is a guest post submitted by Claire Dean from Stirling Primary. Claire has been a Microsoft Innovative Teacher finalist twice. She has been a world-wide winner of the Thinkquest projects competition along with Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth in 2009. Claire is also a trainer with SchoolNet SA. The Ghanaian Ministry of Education requested training on “Getting started with ThinkQuest Projects”. Claire Dean (from East London) and Shirley-Ann Oldnall Jansen (from Irene) facilitated these worksho...

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