In my opinion, teaching is one of the most demanding and difficult of all jobs. The internet is making things a little easier though. We’ve searched the web high and low to find some useful online applications and resources that integrate well into the school environment. If you’re a tech savvy teacher, you’ll most likely find some of these tools to be really useful.

Software is expensive. Schools have budgets. Educational software is also expensive. Schools buy educational software. Which means schools have budgets for educational software. And so they should. There are many excellent products out there, each adding their own flavour of value to varying aspects of the academic environment. But are these resources being fully maximised?

Computers 4 Kids specialises in providing a unique ECDL Foundation endorsed Integrated ICT Curriculum, as well as all the backup, support and in-service training to ensure your ICT centre works for you!

2Simple Software specialises in educational software, specifically aimed at foundation and primary level learners. Our software is creatively based, and open ended which allows cross curriculum use, thereby being able to cover all learning areas. We have also recently launched a home user range which consists of six of our programs and can be found in stores.

EvaluNet develops educational software and training for South African schools and teachers. We’re a national company that’s really proud of the educational software we create and the lives we touch. We’re fresh, innovative, and believe in establishing long lasting relationships with our customers.

Over 80 principals from some of Cape Town’s top schools attended an exclusive function at the Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa in Century City 2 weeks ago. The function marked the official launch of the GetAhead School Project, an initiative of EvaluNet.

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, [...]

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 [...]