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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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.
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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 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.
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Would you like to join awareNet? Comments, criticisms, questions? We'd love to hear from you. We can be reached by email, by phone at +27 46 6227507, or via the form below.

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For more about us and what we do, check out the Village Scribe Association website.

This is a live social network of students and teachers. If you'd like to try out the software, please do sign up at our demo/testing site (mothsorchid.com) and play around with it. We'd love to hear any feedback you may have.

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