Terri-Lynn Penney is going to run, cycle and swim for the awarenet Peace Project. We are still looking for the second half of the funding to complete the project, i.e. to finish the music video, to record all the learners and to produce a CD. Terri agreed to run the Half Ironman in East London, Read more about Terri will complete the Half Ironman for awarenet![…]
We have created a new facebook page called awarenet. (Unfortunately, fb spells every title with a capital letter, so it is Awarenet.org on facebook, but actually it is spelled awarenet.) We have given everyone who is in some way involved in awarenet content creator rights, because our vision for this page is that it reflects Read more about New awarenet page on facebook[…]
We are very proud to announce that one of our volunteers, Nosiphiwe Ngqwala, received the Gold Award for Excellence at the Rhodes University Community Engagement 2013 Awards. RU Community Engagement lists very specific criteria that have to be fulfilled. They describe Nosie as such: “Nosiphiwe has been an active volunteer in and outside of Rhodes. Read more about VSA’s awarenet volunteer receives Gold Award for Excellence at RUCE 2013 Awards[…]
Macht mit, es geht um Euch und Eure Kinder! Wir haben eine Umfrage konzipiert, mit der wir herausfinden möchten, was Schüler, Lehrer und Eltern von der Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke im Unterricht halten, was bereits benutzt wird, und was wie benutzt werden sollte. Wir möchten wissen, was für Euch Medienkompetenz bedeutet und in welcher Form man Read more about Eine Umfrage zu Medienkompetenz und sozialen Netzwerken im Unterricht[…]
Die Social Media Week hosted einen Workshop mit dem Tital “awarenet – eLearning Netzwerk für Kollaborationen mit Südafrika”. awarenet ist eine online Lern- und Kommunikationsplattform für Schüler und Lehrer in Verbindung mit einem sozialen Entwicklungsprogramm für unterprivilegierte Schüler. Derzeit befinden sich die meisten Nutzer in Südafrika. Wir möchten die internationale Zusammenarbeit von deutschen und südafrikanischen Read more about awarenet Workshop auf der Social Media Week in Berlin[…]
Antje Hering, our new Weltwärts volunteer, organised a benefit concert to finance her stay in South Africa. It was a wonderful evening! She played accordion with the Klezmer-Band “Chalijastre” (see photo, Antje in the middle) and presented a few projects of the VSA/awarenet (with awarenet learners from CM Vellem HPS during the drama project with Read more about Benefit Concert by and for awarenet Volunteer in Germany[…]
Die VSA präsentiert awarenet und diskutiert mit Teilnehmern der Vision Summit in Berlin über Weltklasse-Bildung für alle – Wie können digitale Lernangebote zur Potenzialentfaltung beitragen? Lernangebote im Internet schaffen neue Bildungszugänge. Open Educational Ressourcen demokratisieren die Bildung. Universitäten öffnen sich z.B. durch Massive Open Online Courses für tausende Menschen weltweit. Wie verändern diese Entwicklungen unsere Read more about awarenet auf der Vision Summit EduAction in Berlin![…]
The Village Scribe Association Trust would like to thank Amy, Mary and Brandon Goodenough and Samantha Munro sincerely for the donation of their computers. They will be of great help for our community programme “awarenet”. They will be used as (portable) servers to provide Internet access to underprivileged learners in Joza-Grahamstown and for general awarenet Read more about Donation of Laptop for Community Use[…]
Today, I have a message for you, from Rieke and Antje – the two Weltwaerts volunteers: “On Monday, we took the train to Berlin to meet Anna in her home and office, where our internship took place. We will stay here for 4 days to be well prepared for our voluntary service. On the first Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers busy in Berlin![…]
Some technical background about awarenet The awarenet technology is PHP, MySQL and Kapenta based. We use it extensively on Ubuntu Linux. It has been tested on Android 2+, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X and with many clients (browsers) including older Internet Explorer versions. Each server in the awarenet network presents a different view on the Read more about awarenet: Social Media for Mesh Networks[…]