Introduction
awareNet for Learners
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!
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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.
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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 real world communities.
They 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.
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Introduction
Welcome to 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 real world communities. They 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.
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