School 2.0 in South Africa

The AMESA 2009 congress is upon us once again! It is happening from the 29th June to the 3rd July and the theme is: Mathematical knowledge for teaching. It will be held at  University of the Free State, Bloemfontein and you can find more information at the AMESA webpage (http://www.amesa.org.za/AMESA2009/) This year I will be [...]

Homeschooling in South Africa A very web 1 but clearly dedicated resource site for hoemschoolers in SOutH Africa tags: school2.0, homeschooling twitter4teachers Directory for global twit-teachers tags: twitter, education, twitter4teachers, wiki, teacher, school2.0 National Library of South Africa The National Library of South Africa is the leading national library and information centre of excellence in [...]

Think Forward for Education Today: Skype tags: skype, school2.0 Ups and downs of teacher bursaries Double the amount of students ar studying to be teachers than last year exept for african languages in grt 1-3 tags: school2.0, saschools Mathematics Learning: Learning Times tables Parents complains that with OBE all the basics like times tables are [...]

Sites to use to practice skills needed on the Algebra Gateway exam Lots of american resources and links for assessmet ( other subject areas as as well) tags: algebra, mathematics, school2.0 Can we use Twitter for educational activities? Twitter is the most popular microblogging application, with almost one million users called twitterers, who can send [...]

How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Good ideas to make your powerpoints more powerfully engaging for an e-learning course! tags: e-learning, elearning, powerpoint, PPT, school2.0 A great mindmap of web 2.0 tools for teachers See a mindmap of web 2.0 tools creates in mind42.com tags: mindmap, school2.0, web2.0 Elements of Web [...]

Mass and Volume lessonplan To familiarize students with basic lab skills, as well as integrate math into science, students will learn the techniques of massing objects, measuring volume and displacement, and identifying the meniscus of a liquid. The difference between mass and weight is addressed, and demonstrated through the use of differences in gravity on [...]

The new thumbtribe generation has embraced an innovative way to slay their age old enemy- maths, using their cellphones and the much debated and severely fouled, Mxit! Mxit has been getting a lot of bad press ever since it became the craze of the teen (and pre-teen) generation with parents and teachers alike, calling for [...]

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I have decided that it is time to take the maths lit teachers into the arena of having REALTIME online meetings. Of cause I went off on a tangent wanting to just throw them into the deep end with some high tech web 2 tools like WizIQ and was then horribly brought down to earth by [...]