BELLVILLE NORTH PRIMARY – SNA TRAINING

Bellville North Primary is the latest addition to the list of Khanya East schools, who received computer technology. We could see how proud Mr. Gerrit Nel and his staff are of having a state of the art computer lab. During our visit the school had an open day for the Grade 1 learners and their parents. Parents where shown the computer lab where their little ones will be equipped for the future. The integration of ICT with the curriculum was stressed as parents moved through the lab.

Mark Carolissen gave SNA training to Mr. Julian Heesen, working through the different facets of being a School Network Administrator. Virtual server, Backups, registration of users, troubleshooting and networking – Julian could absorb a lot of information and start implementing his newly acquired skills because of his own technical experience.

SNA training is very important as this is for most of our schools first line of defense against technical problems. The SNA is expected to do maintenance and troubleshooting of the network and to give support to educators in the beginning. SNA’s often have to work after school hours in the lab as they still have their normal duties as educators and very seldom are given time for their lab administration.

So here is a big thank you to all the SNA’s (LAN) who is doing a brilliant job and seldom receive a word of appreciation for the hard work behind the scenes.

Spot the difference with Geogebra

Spot the difference between the first and second pictures.

In Picture 1 Faeeza, the maths facilitator, jumps into action when asked about drawing pictures in Word. Quickly she opened Geogebra and drew the graphs the teachers requested. Afterward, she imported them to Word.

In Picture 2 Ms Mnisi, maths educator later followed Faeeza's example and drew the shapes she wanted. This was a good example of the instructor being modeled by the students. The maths HOD, Mr Fass and a Maths literacy educator were impressed with the outcome. These images (graphs and shapes) will now take the place of cutting and pasting (with a pair of scissors and glue). "What about using this with the Interactive Whiteboard?" Mr Fass asked. Not a problem!

Keep up the good work Chris Hani Maths educators!

Big plans for Malibu

It did not take long for Malibu Secondary to use their newly installed lab. Sporting new computers with flat screens, the school is excited about installing new technology so that educators and learners can benefit educationally. Learners were already registered to the Maths software. A group of grade tens visited the lab doing some financial maths problems on their own. Mr Wyngaardt, the Maths and Science teacher kept a watchful eye as the learners worked through the Master Maths material.

Science software must still be installed so that the room is optimally used by mainly Maths and Science learners. It seems as if the school has big, big plans. Other hardware is waiting to be installed so that the school is an example of ICT is used in teaching.

Khanya ICT support photo Album

KHANYA/MEED - presented Electronic Whiteboard Curriculum intergrated sessions to MEED officials.

Kleinvlei Secondary is boasting with a new CAT Lab

The staff of Kleinvlei Secondary took the initiative to look for sponsorships to make their dream come true and could manage to get Standard Bank on board who paint the room, put in some blinds, did the infrastructure and even organize that they could have an air conditioner in the room.
Mr Bezuidenhoudt is very excited about this venture, because now he can teach CAT by using a data projector to show the learners exactly what to do and where to click on their computers.

Mr du Toit, Physical Science and Mathematics educator is using the EIAWB. He mentioned how he enjoys the technology to enhance the curriculum. Every morning it is the responsibility of a learner to connect the equipment in the EIAWB room. What a wonderful way to empower our learners.

Well done to Kleinvlei for their efforts in making a dream come true and to the Mathematics team for using the technology at their school.

Faeeza Farao