| Dates | Title | Details | Venue | Contact |
| 07 May | Filters, Dashboards and Infotention (PART 1) | A 2 part workshop focusing on tools for staying up to date with new developments without being flooded by information. You will create your own set of filtered information sources & information dashboard. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/451 | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 08 May | CET Seminar - The Use of Social Media in Teaching | This presentation will report on delivering a lecture via Twitter (World First) as well as the use of Facebook (pages and group pages) and blogs to teach social media to the fourth year BTech Class of Cape Peninsula University. It addition it will provide a number of guidelines for consideration when implementing social media technology as a teaching tool. | CET MEETING ROOM (13H00 TO 14H00) | To sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/446 For further info, please contact Ian Schroeder |
| 08 May - 10 May | Open Educational Resources seminars presented by Professor Rory McGreal ( 8-10 May 2012) | Professor Rory McGreal will be visiting UCT during May and has agreed to present three mini workshops/seminars as part of the CET seminar series. Professor McGreal is a professor of Computer Technologies in Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University based in Alberta, Canada. He is also the UNESCO/COL Chairholder in Open Educational Resources and Director of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI). | CET seminar room, 7th floor of the PD Hahn building (7.63) | For further details to these seminar, please contact Ian Schroeder |
| 08 May | The use of Social Media in Teaching | Led by Marion Pike of CPUT. Details to be announced shortly. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/446 | Seminar Rm B, Molecular Biology Building, Upper Campus, 1-2pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 08 May | Open Educational Resources Workshop | "Presented by Rory McGreal, a professor of Computer Technologies in Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University. Details to be announced shortly. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/458 " | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 09 May | Open Educational Resources Workshop | "Presented by Rory McGreal, a professor of Computer Technologies in Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University. Details to be announced shortly. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/458 " | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 10-12am | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 10 May | Starting the PhD Journey : 10 May 2012 | The Center for Higher Education Development (CHED) invites all PhD's - in their first year of registration - to an all day workshop.....Starting the PhD Journey to be held on Thursday, 10th May 2012 at Belmont Square, Rondebosch Please let us know : if you require transport from Campus to Belmont Square any meal preference e.g. halaal or vegetarian |
Belmont Square, Rondebosch | Please RSVP by close of business, 3 May 2012 to Nadia Waggie. |
| 10 May | Open Education Resource (OER) for Assessment and Credit for Learners | This presentation describes the work of the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Education Resource. Presented by Rory McGreal, professor of Computer Technologies in Education at Athabasca University, Canada. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/440 | Seminar Rm B, Molecular Biology Building, Upper Campus, 1-2pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 10 May | Filters, Dashboards and Infotention (PART 1) | A 2 part workshop focusing on tools for staying up to date with new developments without being flooded by information. You will create your own set of filtered information sources & information dashboard. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/451 | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 11 May | Filters, Dashboards and Infotention (PART 1) | A 2 part workshop focusing on tools for staying up to date with new developments without being flooded by information. You will create your own set of filtered information sources & information dashboard. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/451 | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 14 May - 28 Jun | Public education courses: Languages spoken in Africa | The Centre for Open Learning, in conjunction with the School of Languages & Literature and the Multilingualism Education Project, is offering five language learning courses in May and June 2012. Public short courses in five languages which are spoken across countries in Africa: Arabic, Portuguese, kiSwahili, beginner & intermediate isiXhosa. Twice weekly evening classes over six weeks. | Kramer Bldg, Middle Campus, 17h45 - 19h45 | For further info, please contact Meagan Mathews or use the following link: http://www.ched.uct.ac.za/departments/col/public_courses |
| 14 May | Filters, Dashboards and Infotention (PART 2) | A 2 part workshop focusing on tools for staying up to date with new developments without being flooded by information. You will create your own set of filtered information sources & information dashboard. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/451 | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 17 May | Seminar : A Curriculum for an Uncertain World presented by Ronald Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London | A Curriculum for an Uncertain World “This world presents human being with considerable challenges – technical, social, communicative, personal. We look to graduates especially to be human beings who can live purposively in the face of these challenges, even to be exemplary human beings. Such a world requires, in the first place, neither knowledge nor skills but human beings with certain kinds of dispositions and certain kinds of qualities." (Barnett 2012) In this talk Prof. Ron Barnett will develop this argument and its implications for curriculum. | LT 1 Hoerikwaggo Building (Upper Campus) | Please RSVP to Nadia Waggie. |
| 17 May | Filters, Dashboards and Infotention (PART 2) | A 2 part workshop focusing on tools for staying up to date with new developments without being flooded by information. You will create your own set of filtered information sources & information dashboard. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/451 | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 18 May | Filters, Dashboards and Infotention (PART 2) | A 2 part workshop focusing on tools for staying up to date with new developments without being flooded by information. You will create your own set of filtered information sources & information dashboard. Sign up: http://teaching.cet.uct.ac.za/events/signup/451 | Lab 1, Upper Campus Student Learning Centre, Level 4, Steve Biko Building, 2-4pm | For further info, please contact Adena Jooste |
| 21 May - 28 Jun | Confucius Institute: Learn the Chinese Language | UCT’s Confucius Institute invites you to a beginners short course in Chinese, taught by an experienced teacher qualified in both Chinese and English, Professor Mei Zeng of Shandong Jiaotong University. This course is open to all and requires no formal qualifications to enrol. Twice weekly evening classes over six weeks. | Venue & times: Middle campus, 17h45 - 19h45 | For further info, please email Yu Yang or telephone her on 021650 2318(mornings only). |