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.
This week, the VSA will officially release the awarenet Peace Song Compilation CD in South Africa with a big Release Party in Grahamstown. The event will take place on Friday 1/2/13 at 2.30 pm at Nombulelo Hall in Joza. Invited is everyone who took part in the awarenet Peace Song Project in 2012 and a Read more about awarenet Peace Song Compilation CD Release Party[…]
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!
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[…]
The end of the year 2012 is approaching fast, so today I want to take this opportunity to highlight some of the amazing projects that were created by the users of awarenet. They range from health over drama to semiotics, music and equal education. Some of them are finished, some will be continued next term. Read more about The amazing awarenet projects of 2012![…]
One of the awarenet champions, Mrs Funeka Jacob (teacher at Mary Waters High School) has recently started her Masters in “Investigating the Use of ICT in Collaborative Learning”. She is enrolled at Rhodes University and now researches how working in groups enhances teaching and learning, taking awarenet as an example. Mrs Jacob is a very Read more about A Masters Thesis about ICT in Collaborative Learning by an awarenet Champion[…]
The VSA has received a generous donation by an overseas member to produce another 100 awarenet Peace Song Collection CDs. This means that every participant in the awarenet Peace Song Project will receive their own copy, and the rest can be used for advertising our programme and hopefully to attract more funding to repeat the Read more about A generous donation leads to an official awarenet CD release party![…]
The VSA went to one of the famous SenseDrinks by MakeSense on Tuesday 13/11/12 at Cafe Conde In Berlin. MakeSense connects Social Entrepreneurs with “supercool individuals” ready to take up their challenges online and offline through specifically designed workshops also called MakeSense Hold-ups. “A hold-up is a 1h30 creativity workshop which gathers 15 persons maximum Read more about VSA at MakeSense[…]
Do you have any idea what this is? This is a cootie-catcher. Our new playful promotion for awarenet – made by Vega Design School in Cape Town. Visit us at the Talking Heads Session at Online Educa Berlin (29/11/12, 2.30-4.30pm) and find out more about how awarenet is educating socially responsible, collaborative minds… and what Read more about awarenet promotion by Vega Design School[…]
Vega’s new branding strategy for awarenet also includes a new logo and tagline, which I am going to present here today: Here is some background to the smallfry team’s ideas: The logo is 75% visual and 25% words. Simple icons make it easy to understand what the brand is about. Colourful icons represent the playfulness Read more about The new awarenet logo[…]