Teachers in South Africa

Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader's Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity.

MXit launched its instant mobile book to encourage global teenage literacy while being part of a ground-breaking maths initiative in which Grade 9 and 10 pupils taking part in a pilot project exercise have access to 22 500 mathematical problems.

The goal of Digital Literacy is to teach and assess basic computer concepts and skills so that people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. Whether you are entirely new to computing or have some experience, this curriculum will help you develop a fundamental understanding of computers. From using the Internet, to sending e-mail, to creating a résumé, the Digital Literacy Curriculum helps you develop the essential skills you need to begin computing with confidence.

Lots of great resources here. Basically a collection ow web 2.0 , school 2.0 , internet safety stuff. Great

Waagmoediges ′kan hier ′n oorspronklike gedig of kortverhaal publiseer en dit aan die genade van die ′kritici′ oor te laat om dit te beoordeel. Die belangrikste is egter om nie tou op te gooi nie en opbouende kritiek te waardeer. Moontlik ontdek die publiek jou en word jou ambisies om as ′n digter of skrywer van formaat gereken te word, gouer gerealiseer as wat jy verwag.

This word list focuses on computer programming. Words are listed with the original English followed by the Afrikaans equivalent. Take note that most Delphi components are not translated and some concepts listed here are usually used to explain rather than substitute terms. For example Button to describe the button component in Delphi. Hierdie woordelys fokus op rekenaarprogrammering. Woorde word gelys met die Engels gevolg deur die Afrikaanse ekwivalent. Neem kennis dat die meeste Delphi-komponente se name nie vertaal word nie en dat sommige van die konsepte hier gelys gebruik word vir verduideliking en nie om terme te vervang nie. Byvoorbeeld Button vir die knoppie komponent in Delphi.

Amazing afrikaans resource links

Some interesting ideas of using laptops in class.

My tutorial on why and how to set up and use Gmail. Download the powerpoint presentation from

My post on making things a bit more easy for yourself using social media in your workday to share and store resources

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How can distance learning become more student-centred? Dr Mpine Elizabeth Makoe, University of South Africa (UNISA), has been preoccupied with this question for several years. In a long-term study she conducted, she found that isolated students have a need for informal support that is often neglected in distance education. This has led her to investigate on how MXit, a popular South African instant messaging system, can help to fill the gap and drive collaborative eLearning in an attractive, age-appropriate manner.

Any comment from the DoE?

SA SAMS is a robust computer application specifically designed to meet the management, administrative and governance needs of public schools in Southern Africa. The programme has a strong EMIS focus to assist schools in the completion of the Annual School Survey.

As part of assessment tasks the learners have to do projects. These tools lends themselve to great collaborative ideas which can also be incorporated into their portfolios.