SchoolNet hosts Tudor Clee who is creating an amazing ‘Touchable Earth’ app for tablets

About Tudor… Tudor Clee is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand specializing in Criminal and Traffic law. After a series of uphill battles in New Zealand, Tudor wanted to do something to serve a greater purpose. He decided to create a Worldbook project called  ‘Touchable Earth’. SchoolNetSA was Tudor’s host in South Africa and on the right you can see him along with Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet.  About the Touchable Earth project… ‘Touch...

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A chance for your class to be filmed? Read on…

Recently our Programmes Manager, Omashani, received a letter about the SABC Education Show ‘Mother of all professions’ from Unathi Memela, the Content Producer of the show. The show will be filming in the different provinces and planned to complete Gauteng before the June break.  If you are from one of the other provinces and would like to be considered for this as per the conditions outlined below, please contact Omashani at SchoolNet via the email address on the SchoolNet website (http://scho...

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A day at TEDxCapeTown ED on 16 June 2012

Submitted by Fiona Beal Imagine receiving a phone call on the morning of the totally booked-out TEDxCapeTownED event on 16 June and being asked, “Would you still like to attend TEDx – we have a ticket for you?” Well, it happened to me, and I got there at lightning speed as excited as a kid in a candy store! What a worthwhile day it proved to be – with the words of movers and shakers in education pounding at one’s heart and leaving their mark.  Let me explain what a TEDx event is. ...

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Gauteng Vodacom ICT Resource Centre Launched

Submitted by Megan Rademeyer from SchoolNet On 13 June 2012 the third of nine provincial ICT Resource Centres was launched in Sunnyside, Tshwane by the Gauteng MEC for Education, Barbara Creecy. The intention of the Vodacom Resource Centres is to help the Department of Education to meet its goal of exposing a significant number of learners to ICT and to upgrade the quality of instruction given by teachers. Gauteng MEC for Education, Barbara Creecy “Improving the quality of education is m...

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The British Council partners with Schoolnet SA, Sangari SA and Softstart to establish IT hubs in South Africa

This report is given by Janet Thomson the Executive Director of SchoolNetSA   The British Council has formed partnerships with SchoolNet South Africa, Sangari SA and Softstart to establish IT Hubs in South Africa as well as promoting a range of future projects for South African classrooms and communities. On Saturday March 31st the Zenzeleni Community Centre in Mpophomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands saw the opening of the first of the British Council’s IT Hubs in Southern Africa opened by the ...

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