Why not join SchoolNet's free membership program?

SchoolNet started a free member programme for South African educators towards the end of 2011 as a way of providing various free, online professional initiatives that focus on integrating ICT into daily teaching.

What does Schoolnet's membership programme include?

Social Media Initiatives

• The SchoolNet SA blog has regular updates of posts which would interest teachers
• Our SchoolNet Facebook page has daily updates of resources and events
• We can be reached on Twitter at @SchoolNetSA.
• Our SchoolNet YouTube channel is updated when necessary
• Our SlideShare tutorials can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/presentations
• SchoolNet is participating in the TeachMeet programmes developing around the country in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng, and has created a TeachMeet wiki for South Africa to advertise these event
• We send out a regular newsletter to keep our members informed of all our happenings, upcoming events and opportunities. 
• View our SchoolNet Weeky Times which is an online newspaper collection of our weekly tweets made using Paper.Li.
• View our curated online newspapers on topics of interest made with Scoop.it. These include topics such as Learning with tablets, Tablet-use videos, Using gamification in education etc.

Benefits

As a member, you will:

• receive early access to notifications of forthcoming offers and opportunities
• have the opportunity to grow personally and become more proficient in integrating ICT into your daily classroom routine by enjoying an online professional development experience.
• have opportunities to network with like-minded professionals
• gain preferential access to professional growth interventions such as courses, conferences and webinars
• receive a monthly newsletter outlining all our happenings, upcoming events and opportunities at SchoolNet
• participate in SchoolNet’s social networking  initiatives

How to Join as a Member

This is available to all South African educators.

1. Go to the Schoolnet website's home page and click on ‘Sign up for SchoolNet membership’.

2. Follow the prompts and wait for confirmation of your username and password.

3. Contact fiona (at) schoolnet.org.za if you experience any difficulties.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation to guide you in the steps to joining us. It can be downloaded from http://1drv.ms/22iount