Educator. Author. Speaker. Teacher ICT Development. M.Ed. MOS. MIEE.
A great experience from last year, an interview by Francois “Superteacher” Naudé. We got to discuss teaching and tech, teaching during Covid-19 and more. I am very grateful to Francois for the opportunity to discuss what makes Check out Francois’ Facebook page for more information about his business, Phoenix Education Engineers.
As promised, here is the video from my training I did with our staff on “Preferred ICT Skill Levels for Teachers“. I actually re-recorded the video to make it more generic for other schools . It shows a few excerpts from the booklet I made and also introduces the Microsoft Educator Centre for teachers to … Read more
There are so many fantastic courses, learning paths and materials available on the Microsoft Educator Centre. Any teacher can benefit from signing up and trying their courses. It’s easier than you think. Select a course, go through the material and do a short quiz afterwards. You can earn badges (I’m not a ‘badge’ person myself … Read more
One of the parts of my job that I thoroughly enjoy is creating content that teaches people how to do things with software. At my school, I am very fortunate to have the role of helping teachers develop themselves professionally in Information and Communication Technology. During a recent training session, I had the opportunity to … Read more
One of the parts of my job that I thoroughly enjoy is creating content that teaches people how to do things with software. At my school, I am very fortunate to have the role of helping teachers develop themselves professionally in Information and Communication Technology. During a recent training session, I had the opportunity to … Read more
Here is a video I made (as part of staff training at my school) showcasing some of the things that I think are pretty cool about PowerPoint. They include using various Add-ins, the Online Presentation feature and Subtitles. Check it out, I think you may find some really useful tools here as a teacher and … Read more
Having dumped Google Chrome some time ago, since the new Microsoft Edge came out, I’ve never looked back! In this video I show you a little bit about the Read aloud feature, the Immersive Reader and Collections! Have a look and try them out!
I was given an hour to do some basic training for our staff at my school – before the start of our new Term. I love creating content and training teachers! So, I created some content covering some basic skills that I thought teachers could make use of and I put it into an online … Read more
Here is a collaborative effort from five teachers, around the world, who have never met in person. Each teacher in the video (including myself) met for the first time in a Microsoft “TweetMeet” event on Twitter in June 2020. We were discussing some of the cool new features of the new Microsoft Edge browser built … Read more
I was busy with Excel and about to generate random numbers the same way I usually did using the RAND function. All of a sudden a new Function popped up that I had not seen before! After a few minutes of playing…it made perfect sense to use the RANDARRAY function for the generating of random … Read more