Three EdTechTeam South Africa Summits featuring Google in Education this year – which one will you attend?

Every year for the past few years the EdTechTeam based in the United States has held a very successful Summit featuring Google for Education in South Africa. These have always been incredibly inspiring events where teachers go home with a myriad of exciting classroom ideas. This year THREE of these summits are planned for South Africa in different areas.

EdTechTeam South Africa invites you to join them at their upcoming Summits featuring Google for Education. Enjoy two days of empowering hands-on workshops, inspiring keynote speakers, and fun activities including a high-energy demo slam where you can win prizes. Go beyond the tools and explore cutting edge best practices in educational technology and great teaching! Workshops are going to be led by Google Certified Innovators, Google for Education Trainers, Apple Distinguished Educators, school leadership or teachers with a passion to share their work to help others raise their game as well. Register now to send teachers, administrators, tech directors, library media specialists, tech support staff, and anyone who is interested in finding out more about leveraging G Suite from Google for Education and iOS to support student learning.

Cape Town Summit
If you live in Cape Town Richard Knaggs from Parklands College recently sent out an invitation:

EdTechTeam South Africa invites you
to join us for the Cape Town Summit
featuring Google for Education
In Partnership with Parklands College

1. Cape Town Summit (4-5 April 2017)

Richard says, "We have negotiated lower pricing so that you can enjoy two days of empowering hands-on breakout sessions, inspiring keynote speakers, and fun activities including a high-energy demo slam.

Register for the two day Summit event to take advantage of the early bird pricing here: http://za.gafesummit.com/capetown"

2. iPad EDU MasterClass (3 April 2017)

This one-day experience is designed to inform, inspire, and empower educators. Workshops include sessions for leaders, educators, and technical staff. Coffee and lunch are provided for all ticketed workshops.

Register here for the one day iPad Edu Master class here: http://za.gafesummit.com/capetown#workshops

Which Summit will you attend? Visit https://za.gafesummit.com/ for more details and to register

Student Blogging Challenge #7: Week 2 Learn to comment well

Several of my classes have joined the Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge.  In week 2 we looked at the post found at http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/03/12/week-2-learning-to-comment-well/

Week 2's tasks were to discuss good commenting skills, create a ‘How to comment’ page on your blog and make a set of commenting guidelines. We used the poster created by Kathleen Morris some years ago. 

Interesting pointers from the Week 2 post in Edublogs
1. Here are some examples of commenting guidelines:
Huzzah commenting guidelines, a Glogster poster about commenting, WarriorKat used a variety of tools for her guidelines, notice how Sophie included a link back to Mrs Yollis’ blog where she got her information from, Emme created a PowToon, Darcey included some interesting points, Kyndal has her guidelines here.

2.  Each week the best posts are published in the Student Blogging Challenge are featured in the Blogging Challenge's Flipboard magazine.

Student Blogging Challenge #6: Week 1 Introductions

The various classes joined the Edublogs Student Challenge this week.  We looked at the post found at http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/02/23/register-as-a-student/ . 

The Week 1 Introductions page can be found at http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/03/05/week-1-introductions-2/

Week 1's tasks were to complete an introduction and make an avatar.

Interesting pointers from the Week 1 post in Edublogs
1. The list of participating students can be found at http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/march-2017-students/

2. I should have an image at the side of this blog saying Class blogs which I don't have yet!

3. The Week 1 post on Edublogs has some great ideas. I am going to add soe of them here to do at different times of the year. For example, this video entitled 'What is a blog' was included in the Week 1 post in Edublogs along with a link to a PDF activity. I am embedding the video and attaching the PDF here.

 

4. This Symbaloo mix of Avatar creation sites (shown below) was added to the Week 1 post. Click on the Symbaloo image below to be take to the original mix.

5. This selection of About me page ideas was added in the post. I thought I would add it here as there are some great ideas.

• Write a poem
• Write an A-Z paragraph eg I am an athletic, yet brainy child who decided that saving the environment is one of my future goals. Check out how one of the mentors created her about me page especially for the student blogging challenge
• Create a tellegami like our mentor Dinah has done
• Create a list of things people might not know about you like Ms Herring has done
• Write a Who am I like Mrs Keane or Mrs Lyttle
• Students in Ireland paired up to create their about us page, Ms Seitz’ class did the same,Mrs Moore’s class are new bloggers
• Penelope, Warrior Kat, Harry, Daniela,
• Brianna (a student mentor) has a great favourites about me page, as well as an A-Z post
• Anna, a new student mentor this year, has a continually updated About Me page