TeachMeet at Microsoft, Johannesburg on 4 June – inspiring!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal </i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">On Monday 4 June 2012 at 15:00 Microsoft hosted its second TeachMeet at its Johannesburg offices. Teachmeets are the new informal type of professional development where teachers share for three minutes by means of a laptop and data projector on something they have done in their classrooms involving technology integration. Approximately 120 teachers, including officials from the Department of Education in Gauteng and North West Province, squeezed into the allocated room to hear what the 13 presenters had to say. Microsoft planned a scintillating programme for the afternoon and, after the presenters had finished sharing, the attendees were also shown Office tips and tricks, demonstrations on Windows 8 and a preview of the new Microsoft slate which will be launched later in 2012. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Following along using Twitter</b></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Those of us who couldn’t attend the TeachMeet physically followed on the Twitter hashtag <i>#msedu</i>. Maggie Verster, sometimes called the ‘Twitter Queen’, started off the event on a high note by showing delegates how to join this social networking, microblogging sensation using their phones. Twitter is still the no. 1 web tool on most ‘Best of…’ lists around the world. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhys84Win_H0OwGerRhU-pyKdOhu_z_euKVZ9JR9yBL_qxl3NwnctPiPUSludlSnP6JXx0MfMBryWF-PstJ8Zm-xCfSKoHpVeMR3BEai8Fyiyk2x0KrLM0ldFhdmZ0tCT2R4qQKCokvDY/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLIrYxg0K8j9n4VrWcbISqqPEIK01oP_aEnCS1ww1ZLeGNdgYw54MERKCBLcQkBiEm0vhm0ZkCr7fEQ85tAjZqHlYdGokZJWF4F59M4DZzgp6jcBBeD0AX0XUe5S2KTpcK18sEPOYpIA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maggie Verster getting everybody on to Twitter via their cell phones</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here’s what the teacher presenters had to say</b></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBqRPHinjDKSx50MBHwE1QTNIXv5OFcvs_nYjgUAgpD4Ya_O-mtjz-96nEskzVH6QsP8nwEJoYFTj5cwieQpjxeBo7FmBEC4biXn9Wk2ibnj6e7AFqZXKEv31vzFREBtqkgAK5txmLWEk/s1600-h/image%25255B57%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj454mEUGNbLvII89Ac3nePlJhLXQ1jdZ0qrmBnLf5HbxDSLLauunZFOsMaGUPb3c2W97RAWd_I2zMUxufX5eJtmkGYH7g0WZG-71q_kAGrDR2AtueJ0xhLrUmV_evlTurhk9LaAKv4Jkw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9 of the 13 presenters</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abdulla Sujee</b> presented on how he uses authentic learning opportunities as a powerful strategy to engage students in real world scenarios. He makes use of social media and online museums. He sees the classroom as a live museum and gets his students to connect with others globally and tell their stories. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IQBFDyb39JbpKyxmIPyF2U2N7pRw8WRns4XWXREQTLfgkFHTM7k-cgcCUtTv_njyRqrpBYNtN3Bh6j9xdFm4SI22Z2Mu9z_ayYnySisHlLJYaUtAHwBegRzftFSM7cCHMMVydvMX4Gg/s1600-h/image%25255B32%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZGKMsoTf8V-dsNqRFfzrBsOoEGiH8bD0YGMMqO5HlJ0db4UewbvYB9oGNrFPxUH7unBgVYmdPsQR-_wiKUSkU-LpBCw7sonS0jeD3IGX2oLoNGcsb4psGfGHt0xCvMmMUWhFo0hOlaw0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sean Hampton-Cole </b>from Crawford College, Lonehill, showed how he uses <i>Edmodo</i>, a free classroom management platform along the lines of Moodle or Obami and several others.  Edmodo helps create a classroom community and encourages interactive learning. It has a similar design to Facebook which makes it very appealing to students. It offers students badges which act as a great incentive.  <a href="http://www.edmodo.com/">http://www.edmodo.com/</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-1in0F_cgU53aK5Kb-0lTlXFAgDn8cuWyIU7WeE1pxQngmmC7zO2PEaYFzdktb2NE1G1sGdEzdXwfwYF79aB_uQkhll6rdTWzXRoYUYJDMy728Ma9eq2G-GxezSYRPYDZcc-8Dq7D_c/s1600-h/image%25255B19%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrD2bsQ2Xwm-YYBWSXqoidEbZcfipBibaby8F6pCq5xA4szTawLdmjwdWvp75KCSZTKzbILhjQXcoT3QG6E0WJTA_Q6gx-0FLb_sivvoiOxlz9jmwrPufQqFGsaPt-k62aCXFn3lsET2o/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tracy Tcshlol</b> from North West Christian College demonstrated <i>Numberwise</i>, a free computer program designed to help primary students to master the 4 basic operations of +, -, x and ÷. It covers basic numeracy, Mental Maths, number facts, tables & bonds. There are 150 lessons that increase in difficulty. <a href="http://www.numberwise.com/">http://www.numberwise.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNXDj-3GajAt3Uw-DIEA1bgOej68OQ_lpPRQF69iYhcEhWVoIH7ryoI016yBBKg14_32PNZWHe_XoqOmskzDmzAFz0cb1SL4rDLNOZhc3IB_KJUayI1fKtk99XEDP_5tbOU24e0ywqR0/s1600-h/image%25255B22%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0S6Z-aBPvJ-v3OksC78Kakr8zbeyA17z4xymQlmuH2HVx6gmX-fX5hRuByrZu3y1wLWmv28a3y_FCwp-oVM25cD1fvDtJbW2rUQ-2TIAySxalgyjLVh_K2sfBUTGrUgVEk3Wwuxnq3cg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Karen Walstra</b> from St Stithians Preparatory School for Boys talked about Google’s online safety programme for students and showed how to set safety filters for students. <a href="http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/familysafety/">http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/familysafety/</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgROsusAIzZNjSxj4qvqkqAmxkAMqMT2gV15xXSaqdbOXf8KW5L6eFduRAhtVnNiMYFUph5IaGpkYd1lIVLH6LIpWMvz6jdfYRAL792znzt7Ne2nVT8CN7pTNJGFuk_lhDnV4fX-vqxq5A/s1600-h/image%25255B26%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTUedZVZJEEqisc4Ui1hs0-hkdoKbPmXbga6Q-yU-dszq9-PtQTcFIkCJ8fJqZJHbPsFnZ_Cw2bcvAX4LGaTLbOv_vMR5xdLkFFoXNEAd5rNqIRSzBn4C04EEo6aO56fKtWLspGOHpScw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Saul Pila</b> from the Gauteng North District Deprtment of Education  showed how blogging can be a very useful tool in an English classroom for encouraging learning about English idioms.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnJ-0ZRfOs1BozlEcW-uOiumJ7xKtuAS0uec6GgzBRVVntLtovPg5bnO7tlCB4xPAPAksMarnN1EVX7FCRwrC5F7D4VykqGKaDES23E2AH-NWlqmTuB6O2AI_7iihi2D315vdcUciBWY/s1600-h/image%25255B29%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQHBwNqXbr_qaijWcYQVYrTUsuZxzOsE4ClsUiLEeG8RT7WdH84ijSmeqzPaA-5FXmPbVQfv3-q73xdqKuPIcI02z0BoaTFpyc6mObvda-0tUpQczdcswF1Tudd1YL7djN1Cfbyqamag/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Hlengiwe Mfeka</b> spoke about having a positive attitude and using cell phones in the classroom.She encouraged teachers in under-resourced schools to continue in their efforts and keep pushing the limits. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Tim Schaerer</b> from St Stithians Girls College spoke about using the autocorrect options in Microsoft Office to quickly create standard front pages for exams.  </span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Robyn Clark</b> from<i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"> </i><i style="font-style: normal;">the</i><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"> </i><i style="font-style: normal;">Sekolo Sa Borokgo</i><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"> </i><i style="font-style: normal;">school</i><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"></i><i> </i>spoke about using cell phones as a support for learning Maths in High School. She said that what works in her classroom is: </span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Twitter: posting homework and links</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Facebook: posting homework and links</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">BBM / Mxit / Whatsapp: study buddies</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robyn gave tips on how she creates student profiles for these applications. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoES7UOvSxnlpVl9e8RZ6rWnyeraouo3FlnFtLWvEF8AB8CJ37nqaaO7UqoXJTJfr183k202749jShfngDjmwLsiobOa6w8dU2gYU7QJ3kAkXq8a0IPVm0OoUSR58ryXKZ-joTWU3a2PM/s1600-h/image%25255B39%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrzVwFDQnZrky3vLeTYynS22-PKjMuUt18kfEGAM2xsHeuNbzA42GDiPHbiXom-fM2Ng3kqC8HDC4QVWcCpe49kaRCCMu4gkOsth23sj_jhcJRsrRhV9DRMegkjMptplF0DMSiIfnUxM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Paul Wilton</b> from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls spoke on <i>Digital Study Aids.</i> He showed how he gets the OWLA students to create beautiful, colourful mindmap-like study notes.  </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_1KYVg18yQBGN8MaC38D-aqP5TNZ04YSGHFSQ5S4mPA-8_RteIvNJRZK_FfAu_ULAYcfpEh8SBL8nm11m9d_YJ9di-eZ2MUbJ7OnhedmCYVhC5R_0d1hqvClYFqUHUu62pnKVGMHXOI/s1600-h/image%25255B42%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggno7ITVNOSXUuUxe76BDzd6PTtd_-UK5ggJbmrrxby3v8HMidEMjUraplYHsIyafhFHZlBznhL4QOdYlyrIsQvzsHugeFd4xrKMKy7J-nnrtW-tp6IO-pBwCDnkmXNRQxAcL3B_jt0vs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Ron Naude</b> from the North West University in Potchefstroom was dialled in using the Lync webinar programme to present on <i>My Yesa passport</i>. This programme uses Mxit as it is cheap and social and students love using it for learning. <a href="http://yesa.org.za/">http://yesa.org.za/</a> </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gNL_IsBPJ4ZrbsQPtEm-ovpm3RQgzNl_fR1KStDfSjMvaXDqCyWyrv0Js8tIz9__8AI3a7jcf5CfkpBElOTp8v6doLsEmP56dvZjPxt36-J1L5SyvzOh7Y05ZUc6_ALA4QAyRjlzFrA/s1600-h/image%25255B45%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcrucGYhceMaO9-yt03aHbPDnNmWKCIjHBH7Y7GXYJkAvqFHgmNa46JghrvMH8ru8faMGp5ccRAJkyIYMZAwS-VJZKz1Foc68QF4fOD_59oT78ooGGRp6iXpX7v8NnlkpShSPlghFkIc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Lyneth Crighton</b> from Brescia House presented on different ways of creating historical posters using free applications such as BigHugeLabs. <a href="http://bighugelabs.com/">http://bighugelabs.com/</a></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1BnPQ7-Of6sQh-XOMs23t5Nh8ObKybPBVHirgD-gN1_ayRFhgIqv1OTlV_AR8K0yJ4Kc2SaZUhe2f_cPh-ZhOXv3PRb0nC1Z7EIGKiF4pT5HlYVRvfjHprVJlg8IyTb7OfZzco843ipk/s1600-h/image%25255B48%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-BtqYCmgYXjkZnnRAUNKb_QiEfEhoPvEDElUpKpm5LUTvShQvq3fwx6peYXGsvofXY7Un9yrrfh9orbfUEF5XhQfa1byxAzVhPm9nHMxg-Rd93hCXj9HO_fQDiOsdGuoS99yEW6SGbc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Christopher Seewald</b> from Pecanwood College spoke on <i>Introducing Cloud Computing to Grade 7</i> using Microsoft Skydrive and Office 365 as his cloud base. His students use their Skydrives to access the school’s Sharepoint. The whole office suite is free online. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityK-RIU-8Dhy2G-RbK5ku2Zxa5nJK1wVGCNWBoTv4LcK8CvmV2pcHHoC2sCHHSHwoX_3PXyuoPD-0hI3mVAOTiAWEBDw8pCjI44njilt0Z1Qwuh9n_R2dowFutPHuCou0U2oWf82kUjs/s1600-h/image%25255B51%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDY7p8E5mE1ky7-B7dh6sgm6rAZGXRDEJYV2yPWhEdMXBBG_cFbADadblG_sjTAi8BDvwMjYACRJU3rftD-URXoXoqGhL8_CRQz28v6ZcAu8JhRoofrevawRIyDD57ycaIIxyuqHmVptM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Angie Barclay</b> from Cornwall Hill College spoke on <i>The Value of One Note for Preschool Teaching</i>. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/office/rm/onenotewebapp.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/office/rm/onenotewebapp.aspx</a></span></div>  <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGymY_bQwM0pQE7SfoSafdtDvSrbsyvvaQ034YJU0Lx5ipJnzq9UK63cu99t7rYvNbK7dAWnQjGdZryDa9xIhRax3Tv0jnzPK533hgS0d3zJYftfmUHi3ESsCR1Ejve-BIByHqW4fo4jo/s1600-h/image%25255B54%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfERAbtk2BC9QkGvP-Z2-AlyXugKZqKO3Dgj7BIFFdsDSQCuAuqwc89bSyjtP_-XBVS6uewSIYroxuLXEkXYvFBtGNXb5yyXUOXmwQsTaq4QxObtApMG9JryZvQJ8RTCOJc5hCzAN7AlE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br />  <br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">TeachMeets are a way of keeping up with digital trends</span></b></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Events like this enable teachers to see what is happening in other schools and find ideas they can implement back at their own school. As Public Sector lead at Microsoft South Africa Kabelo Makwane says: “Keeping up with the trends of a digitalised community, teachers are much more open and willing to share lesson ideas with fellow teachers and try out new ideas in this way. These regular TeachMeet events are a wonderfully visible portion of our Partners in Learning programme, which focuses on building capacity and communities to, in the end, benefit the learners.” </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">More photos of the event can be viewed <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/114485521154323474375/20120604MicrosoftTeachMeet#">here</a></span>. </div>

teachmeets TeachMeet at Microsoft, Johannesburg on 4 June – inspiring!

Submitted by Fiona Beal On Monday 4 June 2012 at 15:00 Microsoft hosted its second TeachMeet at its Johannesburg offices. Teachmeets are the new informal type of professional development where teachers share for three minutes by means of a laptop and…

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