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Upstarters Being Aware
The photo with my favourite description was shortlisted for the Jury Vote!
Congratulations to Thozi Ngeju who was supervising the HIV project that
is described in the photo and to Philisiwe Mbongwana, the CE volunteer
who took the photo!
When power is more of a problem than owning a cell phone
My favourite photograph was taken by Lutz Scharf.
It was ranked 3rd place (out of 126 submitted photos) by the online-voters. Congratulations again!
Comment by Anna Wertlen.
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Capture this!
How ICTs are empowering people across Africa!
The 2nd eLearning Africa Photo Competition aims to capture how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can nurture talent, skills and innovation across Africa. We invite you to send us your photos that depict outstanding achievements in Africa - empowered by ICTs, or that show innovative ways in which ICTs can foster the development of people, communities and society.
To find out more and spread the word, eLearning Africa 2011 is launching a new photo competition, encouraging people across Africa to Capture this! How ICTs are empowering people across Africa. Send us a picture that shows how ICTs have really made a difference to how you live, learn and work with ICTs and, along with it, forward us a brief description of the idea or project behind your entry. You can win a top-quality digital camera and other useful technical gadgets.We are looking for your contributions from any sector of life – be it health, agriculture, business, community life or education – innovation is everywhere and it can come from every single one of us!
The prizes
1. Canon Power Shot S90 photo camera
2. Asus Eee PC R105, a high quality low-power netbook
3. Flip Ultra HD Camcorder
The members of the jury will select the winner and the ten best photos will be featured in an exhibition from May 25th – 27th at eLearning Africa 2011 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The winners will be announced on this website.
Participation in the contest is free.
The deadline for entries is April 20th, 2011.
Late entries will not be considered. The winners will be informed by e-mail four weeks after the closing date at the latest. The prize can neither be transferred nor paid out in cash.
We have selected 5 pictures and submitted them today (20/04/11). Please, find them here.
NOW, WE HAVE TO VOTE TO WIN!
Everyone, please help!!!!!!!!! :-)
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Qualifying With Learners
Educators from different schools have had to learn how to use the Internet and then had to pass that knowledge to the learners to re-inforce their understanding and helping the learners to be computer literate at the same time.
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First Experience
Learners have brave Winter cold to partake in awareNet classes of combined schools to learn about the uses of the Internet at a Rhodes University computer laboratory. For most of them this was their initial experience with computers.
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Upstarters Being Aware
Thozi's comment: Here we see learners from a school reading an article that some of them submitted online via awareNet for the youth newspaper, Upstart. The newspaper works with schools and this photograph was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the Village Scribe Association that developed awareNet.
Anna's comment: An innovative, true multimedia project that drew a lot of attention: The
Village Scribe Association (international NGO) and
eKhaya ICT (South African local IT business) developed a social networking software
awareNet especially designed to be used largely offline, adapting to rural and peri-urban setting. Eastern Cape learners benefit from free lessons and a partnership with the
Zazi Foundation for educational video content about health:
teachAIDS videos, provided by the
Stanford University School of Education. Inspired by the World AIDS Day 2010, learners collaboratively worked on a
project about HIV/AIDS in wiki style. Certain parts of this projects were selected online by the Management of
Grocott's Mail, Grahamstown's independent newspaper, to be included in the
November 2010 Upstart supplement (The Paper for Youth by Youth). Here you can see the learners proudly reading their articles in the Upstart Paper. The photograph was taken by
Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the learners on several projects on awareNet. Together they started an
awareNet photo project in which photos for the 'eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011' were taken, uploaded, described, and chosen for submission.
Ron's comment: 7 schools in the Grahamstown township practice their social media and
online collaboration skills using the awareNet social network
<http://www.villagescribe.org/>. Mesh technology means communication via
awareNet is free for the schools. Creativity, writing, online
collaboration and multimedia content creation are the keywords of the
project, as learners blog, work on multimedia projects (written, with
photographs and video e.g.
<http://teachaids.org/>) and chat together.
The best projects are printed in the Upstart learner newspaper. This
photo was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement
<http://www.ru.ac.za/communityengagement> volunteers.
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Educators from different schools have had to learn how to use the Internet and then had to pass that knowledge to the learners to re-inforce their understanding and helping the learners to be computer literate at the same time.
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First Experience
Learners have brave Winter cold to partake in awareNet classes of combined schools to learn about the uses of the Internet at a Rhodes University computer laboratory. For most of them this was their initial experience with computers.
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Upstarters Being Aware
Thozi's comment: Here we see learners from a school reading an article that some of them submitted online via awareNet for the youth newspaper, Upstart. The newspaper works with schools and this photograph was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the Village Scribe Association that developed awareNet.
Anna's comment: An innovative, true multimedia project that drew a lot of attention: The
Village Scribe Association (international NGO) and
eKhaya ICT (South African local IT business) developed a social networking software
awareNet especially designed to be used largely offline, adapting to rural and peri-urban setting. Eastern Cape learners benefit from free lessons and a partnership with the
Zazi Foundation for educational video content about health:
teachAIDS videos, provided by the
Stanford University School of Education. Inspired by the World AIDS Day 2010, learners collaboratively worked on a
project about HIV/AIDS in wiki style. Certain parts of this projects were selected online by the Management of
Grocott's Mail, Grahamstown's independent newspaper, to be included in the
November 2010 Upstart supplement (The Paper for Youth by Youth). Here you can see the learners proudly reading their articles in the Upstart Paper. The photograph was taken by
Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the learners on several projects on awareNet. Together they started an
awareNet photo project in which photos for the 'eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011' were taken, uploaded, described, and chosen for submission.
Ron's comment: 7 schools in the Grahamstown township practice their social media and
online collaboration skills using the awareNet social network
<http://www.villagescribe.org/>. Mesh technology means communication via
awareNet is free for the schools. Creativity, writing, online
collaboration and multimedia content creation are the keywords of the
project, as learners blog, work on multimedia projects (written, with
photographs and video e.g.
<http://teachaids.org/>) and chat together.
The best projects are printed in the Upstart learner newspaper. This
photo was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement
<http://www.ru.ac.za/communityengagement> volunteers.
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When power is more of a problem than owning a cell phone
Lutz' comment: Das Photo wurde im Juli 2010 während eines VSA
- Forschungsaufenthaltes
in Nkwalini/ Eastern Cape aufgenommen.
Trotz
einer schwach ausgeprägten Elektrizitäts-Infrastruktur und den
daraus resultierenden
Schwierigkeiten Mobiltelefone aufzuladen, sind auch hier Handys
ein
wesentlicher Bestandteil des lokalen Alltags. Das Photo zeigt eine
„Aufladestation“
im Barber-Shop von Nkwalini,
wo
Handy-Besitzer ihre Apparate gegen eine
geringe Gebühr aufladen können.
Als
sozio-technische Schnittstelle zwischen Tradition und Moderne
symbolisiert das
Photo den Einfluss von ICT’s auf das Leben der Bevölkerung: der
Barber-Shop
fungiert nicht nur als eine „Tankstelle“ für leere Handy-Akkus,
sondern ist
gleichzeitig ein sozialer Treffpunkt, wo Neuigkeiten ausgetauscht
und soziale
Beziehungen gepflegt werden. Traditionelle und moderne
Kommunikationsstrukturen
verschmelzen hierbei auf eine innovative Art und Weise, die nur
einen von
vielen positiven ICT-Aspekten darstellen!
Ron's comment: The barber shop in Nkwalini, South Africa, allows cell phone owners to
recharge their coll phones for a fee of three Rand. The photo
illustrates the influence of ICTs on the lives of the community,
depicting a socio-technical interface between traditional and modern
culture: the barber shop is not merely a filling station for empty cell
phone batteries, it is at the same time a social meeting place where
gossip is exchanged and social connections are groomed. Traditional and
modern communication pathways meet and cross here in an innovative
manner that highlights just one of the many positive influences of ICTs.
The photo was taken during a Village Scribe Association research field
trip at Nkwalini, which is in the Eastern Cape. Despite poor electrical
infrastructure and the resulting difficulties associated with the
recharging of cellular phones, here too, cell phones are a pervasive
part of daily living.
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South Africa vs. Germany, FIFA World Cup, powered by solar Lutz' comment: Can you
feel it – it is here,
lautete der Slogan der FIFA WM 2010
in Südafrika. Dank der von SolarWorld
installierten
public viewing solar
TV-sets konnte auch in Nkwalini die
Bevölkerung das Großereignis am Bildschirm mit verfolgen. Das
Photo zeigt das
gespannte Publikum während des Matches zwischen Südafrika und
Frankreich vor
einem der Solar-TV Geräte. Trotz Kälte versammelten sich
zahlreiche Bewohner
zum Fußball-Schauen auf dem Gelände des art-centre
in Nkwalini und erlebten die erste WM auf dem afrikanischen
Kontinent live mit. Can you feel it
– it is here als nationaler WM-Slogan erreichte dank
der solar-TV-sets auch Nkwalini und
erlebte hier eine bedeutsame lokale Aneignung. Auch wenn
Johannesburg, Durban
oder Kapstadt als Zentren dieses Mega-Events fern waren, erlebten
die Bewohner
den WM-Alltag hautnah an den Bildschirmen der solar-TV-sets
und verstanden sich selbst als Teil des
Großereignisses. Die integrative und kollektive Wirkung der solar-TV-sets auf die Bevölkerung
entfachte in Nkwalini eine großartige Euphorie .
Eine Euphorie die auch nicht nach dem frühen Ausscheiden der bafana bafana geschmälert wurde, sondern
ihren Höhepunkt in der Identifikation der ruralen Bevölkerung mit
der WM, mit ihrer WM fand!
Ron's comment: "Can you feel it, it is here" was the slogan of the FIFA World Cup 2010
in South Africa, and it reached the isolated, poor community of
Nkwalini, via solar TV sets. Despite their thousand kilometer distance
from Johannesburg or Cape Town, the community members experienced the
World Cup closely through this (to them) unfamiliar medium. They
understood themselves as being part of the Mega-Event. The integrative
and collective effect of the solar TV sets on the community released a
wonderful sense of euphoria. This sense of euphoria did not evaporate
after bafana bafana left the tournament early, rather it reached its
climax in the realisation by the community that this was /their/ World
Cup, and that the whole world was watching them.
This photo shows some of the community at Nkwalini, Eastern Cape, South
Africa, watching South Africa play France in the World Cup on 21/6/2010.
It was taken as part of a Village Scribe Association research field
trip. The public viewing solar TV sets were installed by SolarWorld.
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Educators from different schools have had to learn how to use the Internet and then had to pass that knowledge to the learners to re-inforce their understanding and helping the learners to be computer literate at the same time.
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First Experience
Learners have brave Winter cold to partake in awareNet classes of combined schools to learn about the uses of the Internet at a Rhodes University computer laboratory. For most of them this was their initial experience with computers.
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Upstarters Being Aware
Thozi's comment:Here we see learners from a school reading an article that some of them submitted online via awareNet for the youth newspaper, Upstart. The newspaper works with schools and this photograph was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the Village Scribe Association that developed awareNet.
Anna's comment:An innovative, true multimedia project that drew a lot of attention: The
Village Scribe Association (international NGO) and
eKhaya ICT (South African local IT business) developed a social networking software
awareNet especially designed to be used largely offline, adapting to rural and peri-urban setting. Eastern Cape learners benefit from free lessons and a partnership with the
Zazi Foundation for educational video content about health:
teachAIDS videos, provided by the
Stanford University School of Education. Inspired by the World AIDS Day 2010, learners collaboratively worked on a
project about HIV/AIDS in wiki style. Certain parts of this projects were selected online by the Management of
Grocott's Mail, Grahamstown's independent newspaper, to be included in the
November 2010 Upstart supplement (The Paper for Youth by Youth). Here you can see the learners proudly reading their articles in the Upstart Paper. The photograph was taken by
Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the learners on several projects on awareNet. Together they started an
awareNet photo project in which photos for the 'eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011' were taken, uploaded, described, and chosen for submission.
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Qualifying With Learners
Educators from different schools have had to learn how to use the Internet and then had to pass that knowledge to the learners to re-inforce their understanding and helping the learners to be computer literate at the same time.
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First Experience
Learners have brave Winter cold to partake in awareNet classes of combined schools to learn about the uses of the Internet at a Rhodes University computer laboratory. For most of them this was their initial experience with computers.
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Upstarters Being Aware
Thozi's comment: Here we see learners from a school reading an article that some of them submitted online via awareNet for the youth newspaper, Upstart. The newspaper works with schools and this photograph was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the Village Scribe Association that developed awareNet.
Anna's comment: An innovative, true multimedia project that drew a lot of attention: The
Village Scribe Association (international NGO) and
eKhaya ICT (South African local IT business) developed a social networking software
awareNet especially designed to be used largely offline, adapting to rural and peri-urban setting. Eastern Cape learners benefit from free lessons and a partnership with the
Zazi Foundation for educational video content about health:
teachAIDS videos, provided by the
Stanford University School of Education. Inspired by the World AIDS Day 2010, learners collaboratively worked on a
project about HIV/AIDS in wiki style. Certain parts of this projects were selected online by the Management of
Grocott's Mail, Grahamstown's independent newspaper, to be included in the
November 2010 Upstart supplement (The Paper for Youth by Youth). Here you can see the learners proudly reading their articles in the Upstart Paper. The photograph was taken by
Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the learners on several projects on awareNet. Together they started an
awareNet photo project in which photos for the 'eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011' were taken, uploaded, described, and chosen for submission.
Ron's comment: 7 schools in the Grahamstown township practice their social media and
online collaboration skills using the awareNet social network
<http://www.villagescribe.org/>. Mesh technology means communication via
awareNet is free for the schools. Creativity, writing, online
collaboration and multimedia content creation are the keywords of the
project, as learners blog, work on multimedia projects (written, with
photographs and video e.g.
<http://teachaids.org/>) and chat together.
The best projects are printed in the Upstart learner newspaper. This
photo was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement
<http://www.ru.ac.za/communityengagement> volunteers.
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Capture this!
How ICTs are empowering people across Africa!
The 2nd eLearning Africa Photo Competition aims to capture how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can nurture talent, skills and innovation across Africa. We invite you to send us your photos that depict outstanding achievements in Africa - empowered by ICTs, or that show innovative ways in which ICTs can foster the development of people, communities and society.
To find out more and spread the word, eLearning Africa 2011 is launching a new photo competition, encouraging people across Africa to Capture this! How ICTs are empowering people across Africa. Send us a picture that shows how ICTs have really made a difference to how you live, learn and work with ICTs and, along with it, forward us a brief description of the idea or project behind your entry. You can win a top-quality digital camera and other useful technical gadgets.We are looking for your contributions from any sector of life – be it health, agriculture, business, community life or education – innovation is everywhere and it can come from every single one of us!
The prizes
1. Canon Power Shot S90 photo camera
2. Asus Eee PC R105, a high quality low-power netbook
3. Flip Ultra HD Camcorder
The members of the jury will select the winner and the ten best photos will be featured in an exhibition from May 25th – 27th at eLearning Africa 2011 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The winners will be announced on this website.
Participation in the contest is free.
The deadline for entries is April 20th, 2011.
Late entries will not be considered. The winners will be informed by e-mail four weeks after the closing date at the latest. The prize can neither be transferred nor paid out in cash.
We have selected 5 pictures and submitted them today (20/04/11). Please, find them here.
NOW, WE HAVE TO VOTE TO WIN!
Everyone, please help!!!!!!!!! :-)
