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Englishnet – New exciting resource for English teachers!

Englishnet is a new website created by English teachers, for English teachers. It was created specifically to host resources for the teaching of the  South African English Language curriculum. This website offers a range of resources from lesson plans, to programmes of assessment, electronic marksheets, specific lessons on the prescribed literature, etc. It also has [...]

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Yo, Pravin! Tax the fatcats so every kid can have a computer

Ok, Jake and you okes. Cool it. Lissin up. Stilte. Thula. Shuddap, bliksems! Can the suits from Vodacom and MTN at the back put away their free mobiles? I want to talk about kids and computers and how every kid should have one. Unless they do, they’ll remain peasants in some 19th century backwater.

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How to choose educational software

How to choose educational software

Teachers go crazy for educational software. I’ve witnessed this first hand. As I sell educational software for EvaluNet, this obviously encourages me.
The crux of the matter however, is that there are too many schools out there who have too many educational software products that they just don’t use – either because they don’t have time, [...]

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Stay and invest, don’t drop and go

Stay and invest, don’t drop and go

In my four years of working at EvaluNet, and visiting literally hundreds of schools across the country, I often come across schools that have spent tens of thousands of rands on educational software and hardware that was promised to be of immense value but turned out to be a massively useless white elephant.
The problem lies [...]

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Site Upgrading

We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience, but we are busy with a major (and exciting!) website upgrade! Please be patient and check back here in a few days. In the mean time, sign up to the Teacher’s Monthly Magazine using the form on the right!

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