SchoolNet Uganda Activities

Helping schools to enhance the teaching and learning process using Information Communication Technology (ICT) through provision of affordable computers, ICT for Education advise and sensitization, technical capacity building and support, teacher pedagogical professional development and support, local education content development, school networking and school international linkages for project-based learning

Report of the ICT Sensatization workshop now available for download.

Please you can download the report of the ICT Sensatization Workshop Heateachers held at Gayaza (19-20) August from the link below. http://schoolnetuganda.sc.ug/workshops/headteachers-ictworkshop.htm

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Ronald Ddungu to represent Africa at the Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teachers’ Forum to be held in Hong Kong (3 -6) Nov, 2008.

Ronald Ddungu, a teacher of Mathematics and Physics at Gayaza High School and a very active member of the SchoolNet Uganda network has been selected by Microsoft to represent African teachers at the Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teachers’ Forum to be held in Hong Kong (3 -6) Nov, 2008 where he will be presenting his mathematics [...]

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Ronald Ddungu to represent Africa at the Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teachers’ Forum to be held in Hong Kong (3 -6) Nov, 2008.

Ronald Ddungu, a teacher of Mathematics and Physics at Gayaza High School and a very active member of the SchoolNet Uganda network has been selected by Microsoft to represent African teachers at the Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teachers’ Forum to be held in Hong Kong (3 -6) Nov, 2008 where he will be presenting his mathematics [...]

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The International Conference “Rights and Realities in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights” held (10-11) Nov 2008, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The International Conference “Rights and Realities in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights” was held (10-11) Nov 2008, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Conference Objectives. The two day conference aimed to:  Provide an inventory and analysis on the challenges in implementation of a rights-based approach in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights.  Identify [...]

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ADOBE YOUTH VOICES (AYV) ONLINE COURSE (6 Oct -16 Nov) 2008

SchoolNet Uganda in partnership with iEARN-USA and Adobe Foundation is piloting a new project called Abobe Youth Voices (AYV). Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) is a global philanthropy initiative that empowers youth worldwide to comment on their world using multimedia and digital tools to communicate and share their ideas, demonstrate their potential, and take action in their [...]

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New project announcement : Adobe Youth Voices

SchoolNet Uganda, iEARN – USA and Adobe Foundation  have partnered to implement a new project in Uganda, the Adobe Youth Voices (AYV).  IEARN- International Education and Resource Network is the largest global network of over 20,000 teachers, 3 million students, 120 countries, 30 languages that empowers teachers and youth to collaborate through a global telecommunications network [...]

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ICT Sensitization and Training Workshop for Headteachers of secondary schools held 19th -20th August at Gayaza High School

One of the lessons, SchoolNet Uganda has learnt in the implementation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in schools is  the need for infrastructure (ICT facilities), capacity building (for both Headteachers as torch bearers and teachers as doers) and educational content for the successful use of ICT in enhancing the teaching and learning process. SchoolNet Uganda [...]

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Makerere University Bachelor of Statistics Students participate as Research Assistants in the on-going World Starts With Me (WSWM) Evaluation 2008

12 students from B.Stat 1, Makerere University participated as research assistants in the on effect evaluation of the World Starts With Me (WSWM) projected implemented currently in 100 schools in 29 districts across the country by SchoolNet Uganda. The World Starts With Me is an adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights program. The effect evaluation [...]

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Evaluation of the “World Starts With Me” (WSWM) Project 2008.

In 2003, World Population Foundation (www.wpf.org) in cooperation with Butterfly Works (www.butterflyworks.org) and SchoolNet Uganda (www.schoolnetuganda.sc.ug ) developed an innovative ICT-based adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights curriculum ; the World Starts With Me (WSWM). In 2004, the World Starts With Me was awarded the Golden Nica Award for the Digital Communities by Prix Ars [...]

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Using the Environment to teach Mathematics – by Ronald Ddungu

“Mathematics concepts have remained a myth to many students because of the way we teach. If the lessons were made more practical then the students would enjoy whatever is being taught.” says Ronald Ddungu. Ronald Ddungu is a teacher of Mathematics at Gayaza High School, Wakiso, Uganda and one of the active teachers in the [...]

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AWARDS

Over the years, SchoolNet Uganda has received a number of International and national awards for its contribution to ICT4D. Some of the awards are:

  1. Stockholm Challenge Finalist
  2. The Golden Nica Award by Prix Ars Electronica
  3. ICT Capacity Development Award by Uganda Communication Commission
  4. The Uganda Annual Best FOSS Integration Case Award, 2005