SchoolNet Namibian Activity Worksheet Competition

Closing date 6 September 2005!

Winners will be announced in the Namibian Youth Paper on 13 September 2005

A large number of schools, and the teacher training colleges, in Namibia have been using ICT facilities - computers, OpenLab software and internet access - provided by SchoolNet Namibia, in conjunction with training courses on ICT management, literacy and ICT/classroom integration.

Through the medium of our weekly comic, "Hai Ti!" in the Namibian Youth Paper, we try to encourage teachers to use ICTs in the classroom, and help to localise and "Namibianise" resource materials such as text books, activity worksheets and lesson plans for subjects in the national curriculum.

This competition is aimed especially at teachers, lecturers, student teachers and subject developers in Namibia. We would like to see your ideas and creativity, using computers, various software applications and the internet, result in some wonderful new activity worksheets which you can share with other teachers in Namibia, using the Internet and/or other information media which can be easily and innovatively reproduced and distributed!

As a reward, SchoolNet Namibia and its sponsors will send the top ten Worksheet producers to the International "Innovations in Education" conference to be held in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal from 28 - 30 September 2005, with all expenses paid.

Winners will also have opportunity to participate in a comprehensive "E-Learning Development and Implementation" Training and Certification course offered by UNAM, Polytechnic, NIED and NAMCOL tutors, in collaboration with InWent and the Namibian Open-Learning Network Trust.

Eligible participants:

All teachers at schools, students and lecturers at teacher training colleges, education, distance- and E-learning faculties of the University, Polytechnic and NAMCOL, in Namibia.

Winning Categories:

Best overall Namibianised Worksheet(s) by a Primary School Teacher
Best overall Namibianised Worksheet(s) by a Secondary School Teacher
Best overall Namibianised Worksheet(s) by an Education Lecturer
Best overall Namibianised Worksheet(s) by an Education Student
Best Numeracy or Mathematics Worksheet(s) by a Teacher, Lecturer or Student
Best African Language Worksheet(s) by a Teacher, Lecturer or Student
Best European Language Worksheet(s) by a Teacher, Lecturer or Student
Best Natural Sciences Worksheet(s) by a Teacher, Lecturer or Student
Best Namibian Social Sciences and Humanities Worksheet(s) by a Teacher, Lecturer or Student
Best Creative, Technical or Vocational Worksheet(s) by a Teacher, Lecturer or Student

Rules:

All entrants must provide their name, age, contact details and school's or tertiary institution's name;
Entrants are encouraged to enter more than one Worksheet, in as many categories;
All entries must indicate which subjects, grades and/or section(s) of the national curriculum the Worksheet(s) are intended to address;
Worksheets must be in any format which is, or is easily, digitised (scanned) for subsequent electronic distribution - website ready JPG, DOC, HTML and PDF formats are strongly encouraged;
Entrants agree that the Worksheets may be hosted on the SchoolNet or EdsNet websites;
All entries will be licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 licence
(see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ for more details).
All entries will be attributed to their author with a link back to the website where they will be hosted. Make sure you get permission from any collaborators or sources to use this licence in your work!
Entries may be submitted by hand delivery, snail-mail or electronically;
Judges' decision is final.

Submit your Worksheet entries:

by snail-mail, on a CD or Stiffy Diskette, to:

The Namibian WorkSheet Competition
SchoolNet Namibia
P.O. Box 7102, Katutura

or electronically to:

TOOLKIT @ schoolnet.na

Any queries may be addressed to the same addresses, or contact Ebben at (061) 212 973.

Closing date :

All entries must be received at SchoolNet Namibia on Tuesday 6 September, 2005;

Winners will be announced in the Namibian Youth Paper on Tuesday 13 September 2005.