Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Our digital journey begins today
In fact, these teachers joined the Mpumalanga ICT Club to start their journey of disrupting their classes with technology. They chose a not very difficult path, a Microsoft Microsoft Educator Community platform is an easy as ABC path. "If you are ready I am also ready to host you everyday here" remarked Jabulani Mashia - Microsoft Education Trainer at the Centre. "Together with Sisi Nomusa, we will be hosting sessions in the afternoons, weekends and during school holidays. The ball is in your court and you must spread the good news" related Jabulani.
We took them step by step into the signing up process with the Microsoft Educator Community, they created their Microsoft account, sign up and immediately updated their profiles. For the first time they came across an online training. We took them through the organised courses for teachers and landed in The Teaching With Technology Basics.
"We should be doing this planning before delivering a lesson in the classroom" said Khosi. Shirley agreed with excitement when she was reading a lesson plan of a language teacher, who use a poem with pictures and a video clip of a storm to teach a language lesson.
These teachers also became members of the Vodacom Digital Classroom. It was an exciting moment when they navigated through the portal to see all the resources in these two portals. We couldn't waste time, we couldn't spoi the moment of becoming one family in a What's app group chat. The good news spread by as the teachers came from widespread schools in the district. Some from Steve Tshwete Municipality and eMakhazeni.
Gafesummit Spreading Smile In Every Classroom.
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| Mpumalanga Team attended the GAFESUMMIT 2016 |
I listened to every positive speakers that shared a platform with me, in the auditorium, in different sessions, between sessions.
Yes they "disrupted" my knowledge system with all the innovations they brought in the gafesummit. My first session was on coding with Googlecs-first.com, Gmath was fantastic work for Maths Teachers added together with TextHelp. Great for teachers that I will soon be hosting the TextHelp presentation soon at my Centre. All was disrupted by lunch hour where I met Mariam Asiedo from Ghana, I was further disrupted in my journey to technology for two days.
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| Mariam Asiedo and me during lunch hour at gafesummit |
Aha! I landed in a disrupted classroom call Google Classroom by Anthony Egbers from Dainfern College. He is my Google Education Group real friend. We usually meet in the GEG South Africa GEG South Africa+ Page, sharing amazing Google tools for education and now he is taking us in to a real journey of Google Classroom. "Isn't that great to spread a real smile face to face?" I was disrupted and developed at the same time. To be precise, we all belong to this classroom, no hassle, no risk, no mess just be in a disruptive and transformed classroom and feel the energy to spread the smile.
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