awareNet is a social networking site, similar to
facebook
or MXit, but it allows you to do much more. You
can communicate via
email, comments, posts and chat with your school mates. You can create
your own profile, present your life style and opinion. You can contact
friends or school mates from any school that is a member of awareNet or
make new friends, even internationally. Jointly, you can
invent
projects online about arts, music, science, media,
literature or any
topic you like. You can surprise your friends, family and teachers by
including pictures, writing blogs or join forums! [ more >> ]
Introduction
awareNet
for Educators
Most learners these days are attracted
to modern electronic devices and
communication methods such as mobile phones (MXit, etc.) or computers
(facebook, etc.). Used appropriately, such technologies can draw the
learners' attention and motivate them to intensively work on an
otherwise complicated or lengthy project. awareNet is a
modern,
interactive education and communication software featuring social
networking and collaborative content creation, which means learners
from one or several schools can work together on regular
school
projects and communicate nationwide and
internationally.
In doing so
they learn how to properly use a computer and the Internet to obtain
information that is often unavailable under the current circumstances.
Further, the world that learners will enter after school will very
likely require them to use technology-mediated social spaces for their
work and lives.
It is important to
encourage students to use social
networking software to meet others and to organise life and work, i.e.
using social networks is not only a tool, but part of their
education. Additionally, they become aware of themselves and
their
opportunities in life by portraying their own situation for others as
well as exploring other learners' presentations or
reports. [ more >>
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Introduction
About
awareNet
awareNet is social networking software for
schools, for
creating student communities in a safe, rich environment that spans the
digital divide. It is free, open source software which anyone
can use, change and redistribute. Its features follow our
goals of education and learner collaboration, expanding young people's
worlds beyond the confines of their local communities. These features are:
social network with
profiles, status updates, notifications, etc
collaborative projects to encourage teamwork
discussion forums
blogging and
blog aggregation
personal and syndicated picture
galleries
instant messaging
(chat)
user messaging
(mail)
image and file
management
shared
calendaring
The software is
developed by eKhaya ICT in cooperation with the Village Scribe
Association to enhance literacy and computer literacy in South Africa
and to improve information flow and awareness nationally and
internationally. [ more >>
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For Learners
For Educators
about awareNet
Introduction
Welcome
to awareNet
awareNet is an international inclusive social network of learners. It is open to all school-going people. awareNet.org.za is hosted in South Africa thanks to the Rhodes University
CoE. awareNet is hosted in the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) thanks to neofonie
GmbH. [ more >>
]
awareNet is also social networking software
for schools, developed by eKhaya ICT in cooperation with the Village Scribe
Association to enhance literacy and computer literacy in South Africa
and to improve information flow and awareness nationally and
internationally.
It allows the creation of student communities in a safe, rich
environment that spans the digital divide. It is free, open
source software which anyone can use, change and
redistribute. Its features follow our goals of education and
learner collaboration, expanding young people's worlds beyond the
confines of their local communities. These features
are:
social network with
profiles, status updates, notifications, etc
collaborative projects to encourage teamwork
discussion forums
blogging and
blog aggregation
personal and syndicated picture
galleries
instant messaging
(chat)
user messaging
(mail)
image and file
management
shared
calendaring
Log In
Contact Us
Would you like to join awareNet? Comments, criticisms, questions? We'd love to hear from you.
This is a live social network of students and teachers. We can only give verified teachers, learners and educationalists access to the network. There will soon be help videos available here to give you an idea of what goes on in awareNet.
Selected Blog Posts
Why you should be reading this
If you have decide to read this blog that means that you have reacted to the title, thank you for that. Now it is my job to keep you reading. There are so many ways to express emotions, knowledge, opinion and all that impressive stuff and one of them is writing and it is very important because it is...
by: Vongai Chindeka [3 comments]
Egagasini at Scifest Africa
Science Education is incredibly important. We don't ever celebrate it like we should. Sciefest is one of those platforms where a lot of science activity is made alive...'Science indeed Rocks' It is a time when all of the work by scientist is communicated. Bridging the gaps be...
by: Scifest Learner [0 comments]
better keep up or you'll be left out
By: Zandile sizani
Believe it or not in this day and age everything revolves around computers. have you ever wondered if the power would go off or computers wouldn't work for a day how it would be...then i bet you get my point.
technology, computers specifically have made ou...
by: Zandile Sizani [1 comments]
My World.
Part 1 I'm a 14 year old teenage girl, but I have no clue as to who i really am. I was laying on my bed closest to my bedroom window. I watched my dream catcher, which hung from my roof, blow around with the cool breeze. I observed the butterflies that formed part of my dream catcher twirl, mak...
by: Deborah Mushwana [1 comments]
The map of my thoughts
I would like to find out someday what it feels like not having to think about anything, being like a machine that does not have to think about what it is doing, it just simply does what it has been programed to do. It would be akward because humans never stop thinking they just move on to the next t...
by: Vongai Chindeka [1 comments]
Why did monks and nuns give up their lives from the outside world to settle into a monastery???
Part 1It was the year 1880,during the 19th century. In the city of Vienna,Austria stood a big, brick monastery on the other side of the city. It was 450 feet high above the ground, almost as tall as a skyscraper. Written in bronze on the pointy roof of the building was the name Stiff Melk. The monas...
by: Ntombesizwe Booi [1 comments]
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