I have just returned from a rather lengthy and successful visit to Gauteng. The response to our CAT content in both our Biblion and XT products was overwhelming. Comments such as: ‘Thank Jenny for persisting in getting hold of me to look at this product. It’s going to be of great value to our learners’. [...]
This is the end of my first working week of 2010. I am really excited about the prospect of attending at least one of the 2010 World Cup matches at the new Cape Town stadium. I’ve applied for 6 matches; hopefully I only get tickets for 2 or 3 of them. But back to work [...]
An impact of the introduction of the new curricula in South African schools is the tremendous burden on teachers regarding assessment. There are essentially five aspects to an assessment the preparation of the assessment, the conducting of the assessment, the marking of the assessment, the evaluation of the results and finally the remediation. In all [...]
ICT is utilized in many different ways at schools in South Africa. There have been and are various initiatives and projects that have and do supply schools with infrastructure, tools and services. Some of these have focussed only on administration, others on the improvement of computer literacy and others on the delivery and support of [...]
What strategy do schools have or need to cope with the frequent power outages occuring across the nation? We have been told the situation is going to worsen over the coming few years. For those who have only recently been connected to electrical power it’s hardly something new, but for the privileged that have always [...]
