Teachers please sign up for a free ‘Digital Storytelling for the African Storybook Project 2014’ online course starting on 21st July…
If you are a teacher from South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda or Kenya we would like to tell you about a writing opportunity and a short, free, online digital storytelling course that is coming up with SchoolNetSA and Saide as part of the development of the amazing African Storybook website The course runs from July 21st – August 23rd 2014.
What is the African Storybook Project?
The African Storybook Project (ASP) is a project that is currently creating and encouraging the use of a multilingual,...Read more
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently, on 3rd and 4th June, I was privileged to attend a Multilingual Symposium on Literacy Development funded by the European Union at the Leriba Hotel in Centurion, Pretoria. Delegates hailed from the UK, USA, Canada, Uganda, Kenya, India, Mozambique and local including representatives from the Department of Basic Education. This was a very interesting event and I thought I would write about ten of my takeways.
1. The launch of the African Storybook Project webs...
Recently we featured a post on this blog entitled ‘Ten takeaways from the African Storybook Project Colloquium in
Stellenbosch recently’ The groundbreaking African Storybook Project (ASP) which is
being administered by Saide uses the web to revolutionize literacy education
for African children, and draws on research to strengthen the project. Viewers
are invited to use and contribute to open-access stories in multiple languages.
The project is an initiative of the South African Inst...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
The African Storybook Project is well under way to scale up the availability of free reading material for African children in Grades 1-3 through the digital medium. (I have written about this project in previous posts on the SchoolNet blog.) It is planned that the African Storybook website that will house this collection of stories will be released in early 2014. This post serves to highlight the African Storybook Colloquium which was held at Stellenbosch University on 17-19th O...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
We are very pleased to announce that a teacher has been selected to accompany the African Storybook project team to an African Storybook project workshop as well as a Reading Conference in Nairobi in August. The teacher is Yolandi Ferreira, the English teacher, from Laerskiool Helderkruin in Johannesburg.
Yolandi was competently aided by the computer teacher, Noeline van Wyk, and they sent in 63 very good stories written by different grades in their school. ...
Here is another class hard at work creating stories for the African Storybook Project. I have written about the African Storybook Project in a number of posts. The website is hopefully going live in July with stories written by South Africa teachers. If you would like your class to write stories suitable for Grade 3 students across Africa to read, please submit them by 21 June and use the guidelines found in this post. There’s still time to submit a story suitable for a Grade 3 reader for the Afr...
Thank you so much to those who are sending in their stories about how their writing is going for the African Storybook Project. This is a fantastic project for Grades 1-3 children in Africa where the plan is to create an awesome website of stories that teachers and their classes around Africa can use. The blog post that gives more information about this project is: There’s still time to submit a story suitable for a Grade 3 reader for the African Storybook project. Join us!
The story in this pos...
I am always so thrilled when teachers send in some information about their writing for the African Storybook Project. I would like to thank Karin Horne, the Deputy Principal from Crawford Preparatory in Pretoria for sending in this picture and information. Karin says, “This is a picture of me down loading photographs from my camera and phone, to use in my story.”
Karin Horne from Crawford Preparatory School in Pretoria
Karin has also sent in the delightful story she wrote called ‘The ...
I am SO thrilled when teachers send reports on how their Digital Storytelling writing is going for the African Storybook Project. This is an amazing project. The plan is to create a huge website of stories for the Grade 1-3 children of Africa where the stories can be read, translated and adapted for use by teachers and students across Africa. The website is due to be launched in July and the idea is to populate it at its launch with donated stories created by mainly South African teachers and students.&n...
We have just completed our online course on Digital Storytelling and now we are waiting for stories suitable for Grade 3 readers around Africa to be submitted from teachers and schools in South Africa by June 21st. It is planned that these stories will be displayed on the African Storybook Project website when it is launched in July.
SchoolNet was thrilled when we were invited to view a lesson presented by one of the teachers who participated in the course and I thought I would write a blogpost ...
