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Times are changing
1. ‘Times are changing
for teachers…’
(presented at Muizenberg
High School)
by Fiona Beal
fiona@schoolnet.org.za
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com
2. Introducing myself…
• Web 2 ‘fanatic’ love all the free stuff on the
Internet!
• Teacher - have taught High School English, then
Grades 7 – 1 (in that order), and was then
appointed as Computer teacher at Fishhoek
Primary. Now working for SchoolNet since
September last year as a technology integration
facilitator.
• Life was revolutionised in 2009 by blogging and
discovering a whole educational community ‘out
there’.
• Winner of Innovative Teacher 2009 in SA with a
blogging project!
• Textbook writer
9. Online courses and webinars
http://schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/p/free-short-online-courses.html
SchoolNet runs free short courses for its premium members (a free
membership) every month. These are supported by wikis. The one
about to start is ‘Technify your classroom’
15. The use of cell-phones in education
Teacher from the Leap School starts publishing house (Fundza) and
includes three mobi stories via Mxit per month to encourage reading
21. Tons of amazing free tools
Microsoft’s Songsmith Microsoft’s Autocollage
Windows Movie Maker Photostory 3 for Windows
22. Give a classroom tour using Photosynth
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=fd71f194-6973-42ca-85f2-f6633b18ab26
23. Songsmith
• Choose a style from pop, jazz, reggae etc. and a tempo.
• Sing into the PC microphone and Songsmith will then generate musical
accompaniment to match your voice.
27. The Tooth Fairy
A collaborative story between three nations
Part 1: Kirdup and Geocro in South Africa
Part 2: Brandon in Canada
Part 3: Alan, Jero and Nico in Argentina
29. One day a little girl was playing in the garden. Her name was Taylor and
she was playing with her cousin Kirsty. You see, Taylor had a wiggly tooth,
and it was really bothering her, a lot. All of a sudden, POP! Out came the
wiggly tooth!!
"Hooray!" said Kirsty. "At last your tooth has come out. You will have to put
it under your pillow so that the tooth fairy can come and get it and leave
you some money.“
"Oh really?" said Taylor clapping her hands with excitement.
Good morning everyone – I am Fiona Beal and I work for an NGO called SchoolNet. I got the title of my talk today from a conversation I had with your principal on Wednesday. I was telling him something about my work and he made this comment ‘Times are changing!’ so I snapped that up for today’s talk.
Just to introduce myself, I am…
You are wondering who or what SchoolNet is. An NGO originally started by national Dpt I believe and it carries out a lot of the ICT training for teachers around SA that is sponsored by Microsoft, Intel, Nokia and Vodacom plus other corporates. Last year they created a new type of job for a technology integration facilitator and I was lucky enough to be the one they employed.
Some parts of my new job.
I am going to talk mainly from a technology perpective. I hope that I am not stating the obvious here as I know this is an amazing school and you have an incredible mover and shaker here in the form of Leonie jacobsen and many others I am sure… The main thing to note is that we are teaching in the social networking age – all these different kinds of groups are emerging and connecting online
How many of you are on Twitter? Well, tweetchats for teachers are becoming very popular. There’s one right here in SA every Monday night started by Arthur Preston from Elkanah House from 8:30 – 9:30. Last Monday we discussed CAPS. Arthur wants to take this to the next stage of
TeachMeets are a world-wide phenomenon it seems in teachers sharing with teachers about a lesson they tried using technology – 3minutes - are becoming regular. Elkanah House has one. I created a wiki where people can advertise their teachmeets and we ar
I am going to talk mainly from a technology perpective. I hope that I am not stating the obvious here as I know this is an amazing school and you have an incredible mover and shaker here in the form of Leonie jacobsen and many others I am sure… The main thing to note is that we are teaching in the social networking age – all these different kinds of groups are emerging and connecting online
Many are making use of cell phones in their classroom. There’s a teacher in Joburg, Robyn Clarke, at a government High School who is doing great things in Maths with cell phones. She is always being filmed by various interested parties.
Many schools – mainly private are starting to use tablets, mainly iPads because they are so geared to education. Just recently Schoolnet hosted Tudor Clee who is a lawyer from New Zealand, and I had the good fortunate to write up about his visit. At the end of the article it says he aspires to become the biggest donor of tablets. But just in case you think that is far off next Weds at fish Hoek High there is a demonstration by a company who has partners with Via Afrika to create textbooks on tablets.
Just yesterday I was in Gugulethu at a primary school with MaxwellFuno a Gr 7 teacher and he was telling me how he uses Obami. The kids can access it at home on their parent’s cells.