Awarenet

awarenet is an eLearning platform and social media tool that offers our learners a personal networking space, tools for blogging, online discussions and project work. They learn how to present themselves online, how to connect and communicate, how to upload pictures, create slide shows and videos. It is a secured space of collaboration and communication between the learners and their teachers.
Our community coordinators see their classes on a weekly basis to work with them on various projects about health, music, sports, science, history and social services. Their main activity is the engagement in awarenet projects, which combines online and offline work. The online projects are always combined with offline activities like participating in sport events, organising public concerts, social engagemeents and the writing of newspaper articles to apply what we have worked on with the students and to make the programme sustainable. Our coordinators further offer to install awarenet servers in existing computer labs and give introductory workshops for teachers and show them how to integrate awarenet into their day-to-day work and teaching. The platform is developed in such a way that remote schools without internet or with interrupted internet access can use it as well as it also functions when offline. awarenet is an open-source programme and can be integrated at any school and after school training programme. Since there are no costs involved for schools, awarenet offers many opportunities for learners and teachers and well as partnering NGOs in the educational sector.