This past Friday and Saturday I had the great priviledge of attending one of the most inspiring, outrageously entertaining, and compelling education conferences ever. This, of course, was the EdTech Conference 2011 hosted at the International School of Cape Town in Wynberg. I’ve never seen ‘ordinary’ teachers this excited to use technology before. The vibe [...]
This past weekend I came across a very interesting analogy by Kobus van Wyk of e4Africa. In it, Kobus compares technology implementation at a school with building a house. This is what he says … “Imagine you’re a builder and are contracted to build a house. The client approves the building plans and agrees to [...]
Teacher’s Monthly is giving away two tickets to the EdTech Conference in Cape Town on the 13th and 14th of May 2011! The conference focuses on “High-Tech Teachers with a Low-Tech Budget” and promises to be simply amazing! The tickets we’re giving away are worth R350 each and all you need to do to stand [...]
By Dr Malcolm Venter So the Department of Basic Education (DBE) has decided to review the system of funding schools and the related issue of school fees (Cape Times, April 27, 2011). This is a most welcome development – but there are some caveats that need to be considered as they go about this enormous [...]
We’re really excited to announce the new partnership between EvaluNet and EPA Technologies to take our flagship assessment and classroom testing software, XT, into the international arena. The partnership between EvaluNet and EPA Technologies will see XT introduced at schools throughout the Caribbean. EPA Technologies Limited is a software development company specializing in producing Computer [...]
We recently launched our latest product called TestGrab. TestGrab essentially provides learners with hundreds of printable tests and memos to help them prepare for their upcoming exams and class tests. Modeled on past exam papers, TestGrab makes use of content from the EvaluNet content vault. This means that we are now giving learners the opportunity to interact with new EvaluNet content directly.
Towards the end of 2010 we made a donation of our XT software to Bottomup Social Development, an organisation that deals with youth work in the Cape Town area. Here’s what they say: The Evalunet Software has been a great assistance to us in the last quarter as we could use this to easily create [...]
Beneficiary: Motheong Independent Primary School Motheong Independent Primary School is an under-resourced school serving the disadvantaged township of Atteridgeville West in Pretoria. The school has 450 children from varying socio-economic backgrounds of which 25% are supported entirely by donors. Many of the school facilities such as the computer centre are shared with neighbouring schools, ensuring [...]
Excellent educational software should NOT cost tens of thousands of rands. Excellent educational software should be affordable to those that need it most. Of course nothing in this world is free, but we’ve tried to make our educational software as affordable as humanely possible by announcing a big drop in the price of our software range for schools.
St Mary’s DSG Pretoria use XT in their computer centre as well as on the SMART interactive whiteboards in their classrooms. We interviewed Andrea Hundermark, the school IT teacher and computer guru, about how she uses XT on a daily basis.
