It pays off to be an awareNet user. Apart from working on exciting projects together with learners from various different schools, you often have the possibility to be rewarded with things like free theater visits, restaurant outings, scientific tours or – in this case – free tickets to the Eastern Cape Schools Festival 2012 in Read more about awareNet users awarded with free tickets to EC Schools Festival 2012[…]
The VSA is now listed in the SANGONeT Prodder Directory, the most comprehensive online directory about NGOs and other development organisations in South Africa. Background about Prodder: Information and knowledge have become critical determinants of development and the driving forces behind economic progress in today’s competitive world. Access to credible information is a strategic prerequisite Read more about VSA in the SANGONeT Prodder Directory[…]
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[…]
The VSA proudly announces the beginning of academic reasearch on the impact of the introduction and use of awareNet in disadvantaged and other schools in the Eastern Cape. Two Anthropology Students from Rhodes University have started their Honours theses about “The School as a Multi-Layered Community: Negotiating Technology in Township Schools.” (Louise Featherstone) and “awareNet: Read more about Two Honours Projects by Anthropology Students about awareNet’s Impact[…]
Last week, Anna and Ron Wertlen went to Port Elizabeth to give an awareNet workshop for the eight teachers of the Masifunde Learner Development Center. They were very interested and motivated to integrate the use of awareNet into their existing educational program. We explained how we envisage and handle the combined training at computers and Read more about Our partner Masifunde Learner Development started using awareNet[…]
We are proud to announce that the video clip for the awareNet theme song was shot last weekend by Roderich Zipp. The learners from Mary Waters HS and winners of the HipHop song competition last Peace Day worked very well together and truly had fun, even though it was a long and tiring day, which Read more about Shoot of awareNet song video clip[…]
The Village Scribe Association is investigating the registration of the word “awareNet” as its trademark, in preparation of more widespread use in 2012. Since the service has already been in use for two years — awareNet is a common law trademark, although it may be unclear whether to whom the trademark belongs: eKhaya ICT or Read more about VSA Memoranda of Understanding (continued)[…]
The VSA is proud to announce that a collaboration between Upstart and third year Rhodes University TV Journalism students produced fantastic short films about issues that concern learners in Grahamstown and South Africa – titled “Speaking our Minds” – and that they gave us the permission to publish these short films on awareNet. The first Read more about Upstart’s and Rhodes students’ short films on awareNet[…]
Masifunde Learner Development is a proactive youth development organisation with the aim to mould future role models in Walmer Township (Port Elizabeth) who can in turn initiate sustainable development. They engage learners in an educational and interactive life skills training programme and also provide grants. The VSA is very impressed by their approach, and in a meeting Read more about Masifunde Learner Development in PE a new partner of the VSA[…]
The VSA is an official partner of Peace One Day. POD is building the biggest call for peace the world has ever seen. Each year, 21 September marks Peace Day; a day for wide-scale community action, and a day for UN agencies and aid organisations to safely carry out life-saving work. This year on Peace Day, Read more about awareNet-Peace-short-film on official PeaceOneDay website[…]