eLearning Africa Photo Competition

The eLearning Africa Photo Competition
The 3rd annual eLearning Africa Photo Competition is now underway! This year’s theme is:

The African Century: ICTs Inspiring Innovation
ICTs are increasingly present in everyday African life, enhancing the way we live, learn, cooperate and connect. How have ICTs inspired you? How is technology fostering innovation in individuals and communities in Africa? Let us see this through your eyes! Share your pictures and send us a brief description outlining the inspiration behind your idea.

The winners will be selected by a jury, and the prizes for the top 3 photos are:

1st prize: Canon PowerShot S95 Digital Camera

2nd prize: Sony DCR-SX45EB SD Camcorder

3rd prize: Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 Smartphone

The 10 best photos will be featured in an exhibition from 23rd to 25th May at eLearning Africa 2012 in Cotonou, Benin. The winners will also be announced on the eLearning Africa website and featured in the eLearning Africa newsletter.

The deadline for entries is Monday 16th April 2012.

We look forward to seeing your perspective on ICTs in Africa!

VGHS learners have not only completed research projects about plant fossils, kaolin mining and the physics of musical instruments - they have also presented their finding to CM Vellem HPS personally and now at SciFest to learners from all over the Eastern Cape.

Today, they inspired visitors to record their own video which was then straight away uploaded to awareNet. Everyone was excited to see the results on awareNet immediately!

Their teachers, Sarah Hanton and Boudina McConnachie, entered for the Microsoft Innovative Teacher Awards by the Partners in Learning Forum and made it into the Finals. They will presenting this project among 20 other finalists in Durban on the 2/4/12. - Obviously, not only the teachers were inspired by awareNet's technology and possibilities, but also the judges of the Partners in Learning Competition!

We are holding our thumbs!

The VSA submitted this photo to The eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2012. The theme is year is The African Century: ICTs Inspiring Innovation. Photos were meant to describe the following: ‘ICTs are increasingly present in everyday African life, enhancing the way we live, learn, cooperate and connect. How have ICTs inspired you? How is technology fostering innovation in individuals and communities in Africa? Let us see this through your eyes! Share your pictures and send us a brief description outlining the inspiration behind your idea.’

So, we submitted this picture with the following description:

‘Helping learners to think “out of the Box”! Here, learners at Mary Waters High School in the Grahamstown township expand their horizons in a fun educational project, in which they develop an innovative board game explaining social networking and the Internet to other learners who do not have access. The objective is to use technology to teach new ways of thinking out of the box about common things like board games.’

Please, help us win this competition – last year we were shortlisted – by voting for us here. If you are interested, also have a look at the photo gallery.

Caption: Helping learners to think "out of the Box"! Here learners at Mary Waters High School in the Grahamstown township expand their horizons in a fun educational project, in which they develop an innovative board game explaining social networking and the Internet to other learners who do not have access.  The objective is to use technology to teach new ways of thinking out of the box about common things like board games.

The (second) picture (above) was submitted, but did not win the competition unfortunately. Maybe next year.... - good luck!