Come and see us at SciFest 2012! This year, the VSA is for the first time a contributor and proudly presents awareNet. We not only have computers there, on which we show awareNet content and explain the functionality of awareNet. You can also chat to all sorts of different awareNet users: learners from the various Read more about The VSA presents awareNet at the Science Festival[…]
Our latest project on awareNet has touched a lot of hearts. And moved a lot of hips! We take opportunities as they come, and this was an extraordinary one: The VSA was approached by Impuls, the Swiss Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, which supports The Glue, a Swiss a cappella band on world tour. Read more about The Glue – a sensational ending to our best international project on awareNet so far![…]
The Equality Act – The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act 4 of 2000 (Pepuda) – is still one of the most important and pressing acts in a country that is amongst the most unequal countries in the world if not the most unequal country. You think of black and white, but Read more about VSA invited to the National Workshop on the Equality Act[…]
Our partner Impuls from Switzerland has offered us a benefit concert for the VSA by the world-famous a capella group The Glue. The Glue (here on YouTube) tours South Africa from Durban to Cape Town and was looking for a place for another gig in between these two towns, preferably including some interaction with locals Read more about Benefit Concert for the VSA by The Glue from Switzerland[…]
The VSA facilitates the use of awareNet in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, especially in Grahamstown. We mentioned in a previous blog post, that the VSA is offering a large number of new and repeated projects on awareNet this first term of the year 2012. These include science, fitness&health, creative writing&blogging, software development and music, Read more about The spectrum of schools on awareNet broadens[…]
We are proud to announce that the video clip for the awareNet theme song was shot last weekend by Roderich Zipp. The learners from Mary Waters HS and winners of the HipHop song competition last Peace Day worked very well together and truly had fun, even though it was a long and tiring day, which Read more about Shoot of awareNet song video clip[…]
On awareNet, you can chat with your friends, upload your photos and videos, fiddle with your profile page, write witty blogs or discuss controversial topics. If all of that becomes too boring, because you have done it on numerous other websites, you can start working on a collaborative project which will take you back to Read more about This year’s number of awareNet workshop themes just exploded![…]
The VSA will present awareNet and it’s content during this year’s SciFest in Grahamstown, South Africa, 14.-20.3.2012. The theme of the SciFest is “Science rocks!”, so we chose the title “Rocks and Music in Social Networking” for our exhibition. The VSA and the learners themselves, i.e. awareNet users from Grahamstown, will present their projects about Read more about VSA and awareNet at SciFest Africa 2012[…]
The VSA is proud to announce that a collaboration between Upstart and third year Rhodes University TV Journalism students produced fantastic short films about issues that concern learners in Grahamstown and South Africa – titled “Speaking our Minds” – and that they gave us the permission to publish these short films on awareNet. The first Read more about Upstart’s and Rhodes students’ short films on awareNet[…]
The VSA is an official partner of Peace One Day. POD is building the biggest call for peace the world has ever seen. Each year, 21 September marks Peace Day; a day for wide-scale community action, and a day for UN agencies and aid organisations to safely carry out life-saving work. This year on Peace Day, Read more about awareNet-Peace-short-film on official PeaceOneDay website[…]