Francois Oosthuizen, South Africa, English, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
I have been teaching English for more than 5 years now and I have had the privilege of teaching students from a variety of different countries all over the world.
I have taught Beginner, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, and Advanced students from more than 15 different countries (including Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan, China, Angola, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Thailand, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina). I have a passion for teaching. When I am not teaching, I enjoy writing a blog for English language learners.
Free English Lessons
My blog offers free grammar and vocabulary lessons for the English language. It also highlights common mistakes that learners of this language make. A new lesson is written and posted each day and features a simplified explanation as well as an exercise that the student can do by posting to the comments section.
Each comment is approved by the teacher and thorough feedback is provided with regard to the answers. Students do not need to sign up in order to leave comments. Furthermore, each lesson also concludes with a section of relevant vocabulary from the lesson.
Nico Baird, a son of Kimberley, was one of the first graduates in South Africa to complete his B Tech degree in Language Practice at the Central University of Technology, Free State.
After completion of his studies, Nico specialised in communicative media, including graphic design and video production. Focusing on effective academic communication in both poster design and instructional video production.
Nico started his professional academic career as Director of Multimedia at the University of the Free State’s, Faculty of Health Sciences. During this period he completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education.
After joining the CUT eLearning and Educational Technology team in 2004 he started as Instructional Designer at this institution. He returned to his alma mater to train the trainers in the use of technology in teaching.
During this period he did not rest on his laurels, but specialised in the integration an utilisation of the web as educational medium/platform, investigating new innovations in Learning and Teaching, paying special attention to the Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0 movement. His current presentations and research revolves around collaboration in education.
During the past five years he has become a regular on the education and technology conference circuit with innovative and pioneering talks. He, inter alia, expanded his vision online by establishing a number of Internet based companies.
Nico also writes a weekly technology column in the BloemNews, which is also being published in a number of regional community newspapers across South Africa.
His aims for the next few years is to provide each person with the knowledge and ability to expand their horizons online.
Through the innovative work and his dedication to learning and especially learning in a changing world he was selected as one of South Africa’s first Apple Distinguished Educators in 2007.
Nico is a Director of Dreamagineers International.
Specialties: Instructional Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Videography, Educational Innovation, Podcasting, Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0
Nico Baird
I write weekly columns for a local community newspaper and also for educators at times. I post all of them here.
I am a computer teacher at a primary school in Cape Town, South Africa. I love exploring Web 2.0 with my students. I started blogging in 2009, and won the Microsoft Innovative Teacher 2009 competition in South Africa in the community category with my project called 'Bonding through Blogging' which was recorded on my blog which has the same name.
Bonding through blogging
I am passionate about combining the curriculum with technology. My blog reflects some of the ways I do this with my classes. I also love collaborating with other classes and these projects are recorded on my blog.
Lives in South Africa with husband and three girls. Works at ORT SA. Heads the Education department in Gauteng. Loves reading and dancing. Can be found tweeting (@Ariellah).
Ariellah's Technoblog Reflections on education, policy, ICT integration, Teachers' professional development. As well as my thought on books and raising teenagers.
Carolynn Bruton, Cape Town, South Africa, Primary, Information Technology, eLearning, Computers
I have spent the past 40 years as a Junior School English & Phys Ed. teacher. I specialised as a computer teacher about 18 years ago. I was formerly at Kingswood College in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.
I have been at Springfield Convent Junior School in Cape Town since 1996. My Teacher/Librarian and I moved into a beautiful new media centre this year where my workload has increased but so has my job satisfaction.
A Cape Town teacher's rumblings
I write Cape Town computer teacher’s rumblings. My aim is to share resources I’ve found useful, lessons which have been great and to document interesting family happenings. I began blogging in 2007 on WordPress and have been encouraged through Maggie Verster’s 2008 blogging course to revive my blogging skills.
Maggie Verster, South Africa, Primary, Secondary, Further, School 2.0, ICT, Mathematics
I am a web 2.0 and ICT for teaching and learning activist and trainer. I also train mathematical literacy teachers in South Africa.
School 2.0 in South Africa My collection of web 2.0 tools, resources, articles and tutorials for use with my teachers here in South Africa. I also post general educational and subject information to my blog as a way to keep track of resources.
Theme: school 2.0, ict, technology, tutorials, howto, ict skills, web 2.0, mathematics resources, online communities
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