Third Term awareNet sessions in around Grahamstown schools has been successful!

AwareNet is being taught by at least 9 disadvantages schools in and around Grahamstown and the third term of the school year has been the busiest of all the terms for me since starting my job as Community Coordinator for Village Scribe.. Association. More schools to work with this term and a lot more learners has joined awareNet.

The different schools doing awareNet this term is Ntsika,Ntaba Maria,Khuhliso Daniel,Nombulelo,Nayluza,Mary Waters and C.M Vellem.At Ntsika more then 100 learners are part of awareNet,they started at the beginning of the year and the project they were part of was The Health and Fitness project a lot of things as part of the fitness project was done on awareNet. Alot was also learnt by the learners. Ntsika is one of the schools I have seen a lot of growth and knowledge learnt over the last couple of months.

The Newest school and learners to join awareNet this term is Ntaba Maria with only 20 learners eager to learn and get to know more about awareNet. This schools computer lab was closed for more then two years absolutely nothing was functioning in this computer Lab after a lot of talking and convincing the principle he decided it time to get things repaired. It was going to cost a lot to repair computers but luckily insurance was going to cover the Repair costs.

For the first two weeks of the learners being on awareNet they worked on word documents that was copy paste to their awareNet accounts. I can say with Joy that the learners did their first session on awarenet four weeks after the computers were being repaired. Great things still to come from Ntaba Maria and awareNet at this school.

After months of trying to get awareNet going at Nayluza and Nombulelo two teachers took the computer lab into their care got a group together to do awareNet once a week. Nombulelo has a group of over 20 learners most of them attending the sessions so far ,yesterday their session was done during break time filling the class to 28.Nayluza has also returned to doing awareNet after their lab was also closed f several months not functioning at all.

Khuhliso Daniels is also one of the newest schools to join awareNet they have a beautiful computer lab with more the 30 computers.Due to having no internet at this school we do a mobile lab set up so that awareNet could be used on their computers.Other schools using the mobile lab set up is Ntaba Maria,Nombulelo and Ntsika this set up has been very successful at these schools giving learners access to awareNet.

Two other schools C.M Vellem and Mary Waters also have beautiful computer-labs were learners could work on awareNet.To put things into one sentence THE LEARNERS LOVE awareNet!

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Posted: August 30th 2012 10:38