On Friday 15/2/13, Dr Sarah Hanton, trustee of the VSA and awarenet coordinator, organised a presentation about the possibilities of awarenet to the staff of VG High School in Grahamtown to recruit more teachers into the programme. Terri-Lynn Penney, Viv Quin and Richard Strickland were also present to give individual support during the meeting. The Read more about VSA recruiting more teachers to awarenet[…]
We are very happy to announce that the VSA is now part of the SAGE Net network, a network that organises volunteers from Germany to stay and work in South Africa for one year. The forms were being filled out and sent off to the Weltwärts Programm a few weeks ago. On Tuesday, Mr and Read more about VSA visited by SAGE Net.[…]
The first SenseCamp for the VSA turned out to be very successful and also great fun! MakeSense Berlin invited into the Social Impact Enterprise Lab last Saturday (9/2/13) and almost 200 SenseMakers came. There was an amazing atmosphere in which creativity, social ideas and motivation was sprouting out of everyone to form a lively, sizzling Read more about Very successful Hold-Up about Passwords at SenseCamp Berlin[…]
The VSA’s community coordinator Terri-Lynn Penney organised a diary drive at the beginning of the year 2013 with the effect that diaries were given to more than 200 awarenet learners. Here is what she says about her intentions: “At the end of 2012, I realized that some of the learners that I teach awarenet, lack Read more about VSA organised Donation of 2013 Diaries to 200 awarenet Learners[…]
Have you actually wondered what a Hold-Up is? We have announced the event in a previous blog, but watch this video to find out exactly what the VSA is planning to do on the 9/2/13 at the social impact enterprise lab in Berlin-Kreuzberg. 🙂 Make Sense/Hold Up Introduction from GUST PROJECT on Vimeo.
The VSA presented awarenet at OuiShare #3 and generated a lot of interest. For the full 5 min presentation, please follow the link below. If you have questions or if you are interested to collaborate with us or to use awarenet, please contact us. awarenet@OuiShare
awarenet has a new attraction, just in time for the new school year in South Africa! The cMinds Project, co-funded by the Life Long Learning Programme of the EU, aims at deploying programming concepts towards the development of critical and structural thinking. cMinds was presented at Online Educa Berlin, where Anna Wertlen approached the presenter, Read more about cMinds on awarenet: a game to learn programming concepts[…]
During the last SenseDrink #13 at the Luzia Bar in Berlin, we were invited by Ismail Chaib to give a Hold-Up during the next SenseCamp on the 9th of February in Berlin. Thank you for inviting us, @iChaib, we are very much looking forward to the event!
The year end was used to found the German Village Scribe Association. This important next step was done to enlarge the global network of the VSA and to make collaboration between German and South African schools easier. Further, the official status as NGO in Germany is necessary when applying for funding. The foundation took place Read more about Foundation of German VSA[…]
What all includes a good health? More than 200 learners from more than 5 schools investigated this question and displayed what they found out on awarenet in one big project called The Health Promotion Project during the last 6 months. They were supported by their coordinator Terri-Lynn Penney and a wide range of volunteers, including Read more about awarenet cares about Health and social Development[…]