Join the Wikispaces Flipped Classroom webinar on August 23rd 2012
Are you curious to know more about the Flipped Classroom? Wikispaces webinars are hosting a Flipped Classroom Panel on August 23rd where four distinguished pioneers in the field will share their experience and wisdom. This will be a very interesting discussion I am sure.
This is a unique opportunity to hear how schools plan, execute and evaluate a blended learning and flipped classroom environment.
Please click on the following link to find out more about this webinar and how to ...Read more
Connected Educator Month is a United.States Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative, coming out of Director of the Office of Educational Technology Karen Cator’s working group on “online communities of practice.” There are an amazing number of free webinars to attend. Please note that the times are Eastern Daylight Time, so you will need to refer to the Time Zone Converter to work out the times in your region.
This is a wonderful opportunity for pro...
Microsoft has embarked on an ‘Innovative Teaching and Learning’ (ITL) research programme. They will be hosting workshops and webinars on LEAP21. The first webinar on 18 July from 6pm – 6:30pm will focus on the first of the five dimensions 21st century learning (collaboration).This discussion Forum will allow all participants of LEAP21 training to connect and discuss the topic.
View the discussion forum on the Partners in Learning Network for details on joining the webinar. Note that i...
At the moment we are having a series of nine webinars featuring past finalists and winners in Microst’s Partners in Learning Forum (formerly called the Innovative Teacher competition) I have thoroughly enjoyed hosting and listening to these twice a week as it shows me that we have some very creative teachers in our midst. I have also had the tasks of converting these webinars to YouTube videos and podcasts which makes for easier viewing
Today I am going to feature the webinar presented by...
This afternoon we have another webinar of three past finalists or winners in the South African Partners in Learning forum. Please log in as a guest and join us if you can: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/previouswinners4/
Ngaka Ralekoala from Bloemfontein
We have Ngaka Ralekoala who worked in a team of four in a project about vulnerable children. In this project learners from participating schools received training in ethics and research methodology and then conducted research in their local communi...
This is the time of the year where SchoolNet and Microsoft combine to prepare interested South African teachers for the upcoming Partners in Learning Forum. This competition used to be known as the Innovative Teacher’s Forum. There are amazing prizes up for grabs for successful teachers, the most valued being a week long trip to participate in the Pan African and Middle East Finals in Morroco, and/or a week long trip to participate in the World Finals in Greece, for successful teachers. This year ...
What is a Google hangout?
Google+ is Google’s new social networking tool. I have only just discovered its amazing potential since attending the Google Teacher Academy in New York in October. Google has put a lot of funding into developing Google+ and they are committed to making it work well for education, so it will just get better and better I am sure. Once you have created a circle of friends in Google+ you can choose to hang out with them on Google+. This allows you to video chat, IM cha...
webinarsSubmitted by Fiona Beal
SchoolNet is planning to introduce regular webinars for educators in the areas of technology integration and good classroom practice. I am in the process of contacting South African educators that I know of who have expertise in certain fields to see if they would be willing to share their expertise and host a webinar somewhere along the line. But what about you? To start off we will confine this to SchoolNet Premium members. If you are a SchoolNet Premium member and you ha...
