For the past 4 weeks, the smallfry team of Vega Design School has worked on a new brand strategy for awarenet. On Monay 05/11/12 they presented their outcome to the eKhaya ICT team and the VSA trustees and members via skype. You may have noted one of their suggestion already in the title: awarenet needs Read more about A new Brand Strategy for awarenet by Vega[…]
Today is Peace Day! Exactly one year ago, the awareNet Peace Day Concert happened in Grahamstown, South Africa, in partnership with Peace One Day, who will tonight give another huge Global Truce 2012 Concert in London, UK. Subsequently, Corinne Cooper and Lunga Heleni from Sonic Art Studio recorded all 5 schools’ songs about Peace and Read more about The awareNet Peace Song Music Video[…]
Kids at school get into trouble, one day or another. The interesting thing about that is how teachers and learners deal with the problem and in which way they find solutions. Rosa Brandt, an Honours student at Rhodes University has found an innovative and very expressive way to show kids what kind of possibilities they Read more about Honours Student combines Drama with Web 2.0[…]
eKhaya ICT and the Rhodes University IT Department fixed Ntaba Maria PS’s Internet connection to the Rhodes network in combined effort. Rhodes donated a 48 port switch, which was installed and tested by eKhaya ICT. Ntaba Maria’s principal was overjoyed and thanks everyone involved. Also the learners are very happy to be back online. While Read more about Collaboration for Social Development[…]
Are you aware yet? This blog provides more information to the music CD The awareNet Peace Song Collection 2011, which will be published soon. The challenge – write a theme song for awareNet Popular music culture is big amongst the youth worldwide – in Grahamstown East the Rap and Hip Hop music forms are particularly Read more about Background Information on The awareNet Peace Song Collection 2011[…]
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be thinking out of the box and breaking the computer lab ICT education mould in a rural pilot. The pilot will take place at Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, South Africa. awareNet is forms an important part of the social networking technology and methodology for the project. The Read more about awareNet in Rural Education Pilot[…]
As part of the next Brand Challenge, students of Vega Design School will work on awareNet‘s brand, design and usability. The VSA is very excited about this partnership as Vega produces excellent work and very motivated students. awareNet really needs a bit of assistance in this regard. To give you an idea: There will be Read more about Vega Design School enhances usability of awareNet[…]
The VSA is proud to announce that IkamvaYouth in Cape Town is now going to introduce awareNet to all their learners. Ikamva is a South African non-profit organization focused on the empowerment of youth through education, e-literacy training and career guidance. In 2012, IkamvaYouth accommodates 743 learners from grades 8-12 across 7 branches at an Read more about IkamvaYouth on awareNet[…]
The VSA was invited to attend the SAGE Net Workshop on International Volunteering last week. Most of the participants are hosts for the Weltwärts Exchange Programme and wanted to exchange their experiences with their volunteers to learn from each other and discuss benefits and challenges of working with volunteers. The VSA had volunteers (local and Read more about VSA invited to SAGE Net Workshop about International Volunteering[…]
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[…]