This year, the wireless link provided by the Rhodes University CoE for Ntsika Secondary’s Internet access has not been stable enough to use for awareNet classes. There has been barely enough bandwidth for the staff to do email. There are not enough resources to solve the problems with wireless link, and a fix is scheduled Read more about Mobile awareNet At Ntsika Secondary School – How It Works[…]
Vega Schools’ Annual Brand Challenge can help the Village Scribe Association communicate better! Pending selection by the Vega Brand Challenge — we hope we are worthy of this honour! How does it work? A multidisciplinary student team, tutored and coached by veteran communication experts, constructs a brand strategy for awareNet and the VSA. Included are Read more about Vega Brand Challenge Helping VSA Communicate[…]
We have already given you a little impression of how the VSA has decided to change the face of awareNet by publishing our new icon. We have now adapted the whole website: it’s got a new colour scheme and changed its style slightly. We are aware that the new colours are quite radical. But do Read more about The new face of awareNet[…]
The Village Scribe Association is ending the year 2011 off on a very strong note. Part of that striking chord is a new logo, which Ron Wertlen designed together with his own children. First he used their paint set, and then refined the concept in GIMP to produce what you can see here — a Read more about Sneak Preview of New awareNet Logo![…]
The awareNet software now has DVD distribution for Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) – allowing anyone to set up their own social networking site and run it from an ordinary windows computer (XP, Vista or 7). Once installed, awareNet can be run as a standalone site, or join with other awareNet installations in a peer-to-peer network. The peer-to-peer Read more about awareNet runs on Windows![…]
The VSA and three of our partners, eKhaya ICT, Left2Write and ReedHouseSystems, went together to rural Nkwalini in the Eastern Cape for several reasons. One was to hold a social networking workshop using awareNet for learners, teachers and community coordinators of the Zwelenqaba SSSchool (27.-28.09.11). Richard Strickland from eKhaya ICT updated the awareNet server and Read more about awareNet workshop at Zwelenqaba SSS in Nkwalini[…]
Ron Wertlen from eKhaya ICT has created a video about the idea and functionality of awareNet, the online social networking site for learners that was co-developed by eKhaya ICT and the VSA. You can find the video on the eKhaya ICT website and on YouTube. Please, have a look at it! We would be interested Read more about A video about the idea and functionality of awareNet by eKhaya ICT[…]
Dietrich von Richthofen, a German journalist, visited Grahamstown and the rural Eastern Cape in January 2011. After a series of long interviews with Ron Wertlen (eKhaya ICT and Reed House Systems CTO) and Anna Wertlen (Village Scribe Association), Sibukele Gumbo (Siyakhula Living Lab Management Unit) and Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University – Centre of Excellence) and Read more about Reed House Systems, TeleWeaver and the Siyakhula Living Lab in the German DIE ZEIT.[…]
We can proudly announce: Our social network awareNet is now connected to twitter! awareNet is now sending daily automated updates about certain activity to @VillageScribeSA. Please, follow us to see what’s going on in our social network for South African and other interested learners. Insights that are posted are completely anonymous to protect the privacy Read more about awareNet now connected to twitter[…]
It’s been an exciting few months here at eKhaya ICT as we prepare to release awareNet-in-a-box. This is a social networking product for education, the goal of which is to turn any ordinary Windows computer into a social media hub, giving schools and communities access to communication, publishing and collaboration tools similar to those so Read more about awareNet-in-a-box[…]