The awareNet song competition is taking place on Peace Day (21/09). Here some news around that day. The Makana Municipality has agreed to sponsor Noluthando Hall for the Peace Day Celebration = song competition. Thank you to the Special Programmes Unit! Erika Wertlen, Jared Lang, Keagan Prince and Roderick Zipp have agreed to be the judges for the Read more about Some exciting news about our music event on Peace Day[…]
On 11/8/11 the Village Scribe Association was officially registered as a Non-Profit Organisation.
The second VSA AGM took place on Saturday, the 20th of August 2011 at 11am in Grahamstown, South Africa at the VSA headquarters. Seven VSA members attended the meeting incl. all board members. 3 members joined the meeting via skype or telephone. 12 members apologised. Agenda: Welcome, introduction of board and regular members, apologies. Presentation Read more about VSA AGM 2011[…]
awareNet is aiming for something bigger this year. The Village Scribe Association decided that either awareNet will become more famous and used by more learners pretty soon, or it’s not worth investing into it anymore. So, we hope that this will become a great success story…! It all started with the rather unpleasant and surprising Read more about awareNet is evolving into a new space![…]
The Grahamstown Foundation awarded 4 awareNet users with free tickets for the National Schools Festival in Grahamstown (10.-14.7.11) after they had successfully proven that they are good reporters by documenting their experiences at the National Arts Festival on awareNet. Faith du Plessies, Krista du Plooy, Ayanda Twani and Siyamtanda Tokwe went out and thoroughly enjoyed the Read more about awareNet users report from National Schools Festival[…]
awareNet learners in Grahamstown were awarded with free tickets to the show ‘Vagina Monologues’ on Thursday 11/08/11 at Rhodes’ Nun’s Chapel. The ‘Vagina Monologues’ is a play written by Eve Ensler, performed every year worldwide. In Grahamstown is was performed by a variety of Rhodes students which proved to be very skilled and presented an excellent Read more about awareNet users invited to ‘Vagina Monologues’[…]
The 6th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training took place in Dar es Salaam in May 25-27 2011. Ron attended the Conference and his talk was subsequently mentioned in their press release. They gave him quite a lot of attention in the section New technologies for learning integration: “Ronald Wertlen from eKhaya Read more about eKhaya ICT and awareNet mentioned in eLearning Africa Press Release[…]
All VSA members are invited to the second Annual General Meeting of the Village Scribe Association. The AGM takes place on Saturday, the 20th of August at 11am, South African time, at 9 Florence Street in Grahamstown, South Africa. If you live too far away from Grahamstown you have the possibility to participate using skype. Read more about VSA members: Invitation to VSA AGM and request for membership fees[…]
It’s time to give you some background about Inyaniso, our new partner for awareNet. I am just going to take some information out of the Grocott’s Mail, the Grahamstown local newspaper (the 19/07/11 issue), because I couldn’t find any electronic information yet. Inyaniso (‘the truth’) consists of the two artists Zukani Melikhaya and his nephew Read more about Who is Inyaniso, our new partner for awareNet?[…]
The VSA and a lot of amazing partners become serious now about the awareNet theme Song Project. You probably wonder what it’s all about. Let me explain. It’s going to be an amazing story for Peace Day, I hope. It all started with the idea that awareNet needs a song for the learners and all Read more about awareNet theme song battle on stage on Peace Day[…]