A list of the many individuals and organizations who have helped us during the first, precarious two years of CBN. Without their help we would be nowhere. The Swedish Arts Council Swedish supporters of CBN applied for, and received, funding from The Swedish Arts Council and SIDA. This funding was used for joint workshops both […]
What is exactly happening with reading in the digital age? And how can we keep up? Every generation believes that theirs has seen the most change, the most progress (real or imagined) the most difference. It would be hard to imagine one that has seen more change than has happened in the last twenty years.
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CBN and the participating young people from Red Hill took the Swedish students for a tour around their Red Hill homes. The purpose was for us to show them where the children come from and how they live. It was a good tour because it gave them opportunity to chat with the kids and adults
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Some of the children attending the Swedish / Red Hill workshop tell us how the workshop went and how they enjoyed being part of the workshop. Simphiwe Today I have learned to read a book in a iPad, I saw how easy it is and to understand because it is easy and much faster. It
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During our first two years, we continued to explore the theme of Home – and this will never be all that far from our workshop ideas. But we have expanded into other trains of thought with the Cederberg Stories Project, which began in 2013 and will continue throughout 2014. We found the perfect book to
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CBN is about books. Yup. But we approach books in different ways. Making reading cool is what we do – and using electronic media in that crusade works for us, and works for the young people we reach through our workshops. Using iPads has been a long-standing dream, but it didn’t seem really possible until
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On 3rd March CBN held a workshop with Swedish student in Simon’s Town, the workshop was very exciting we were like brothers and sisters, we communicated very well with each other. We had a session learning about iPad, how to use iBook and Book Creator which is our main focus as CBN. During our workshop
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On Friday 21 February and Saturday 22 February, CBN held a two-day workshop on family histories, facilitated by Professor John Parkington. The workshop was held in the CBN classroom at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project and twelve invited participants from Grade Seven attended on both days. We began with family stories, particularly form a book
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On 1st March our latest Swedish visitors touched down at Cape Town Airport, ready for action at Red Hill and other Rotary projects in the Cape Peninsula. There will be an informal two-day workshop with iPads lent to us by Digicape in Cape Town as part of their seeding programme for educational use of iPads.
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The full report for 2013 is now available as a PDF for anyone who needs all the ins and outs (and the ups and downs!) To read it, please click on: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/sites/default/files/resource-documents/children%C2%B9s-book-network-2013-rsb-version3_0.pdf Any further information required is available from: info@childrensbook.co.za
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This article, by Jay Heale, was broadcast on Fine Music Radio, Cape Town, on 13th January 2014. What were you doing on Tuesday 10 December, while thousands walked through the drenching rain to be at the Commemorative Service for Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium? I’ll tell you what I was doing, because you’ll never
The tenth of December 2013: None of us will ever forget the announcement last week that our beloved Madiba had left us during the night. There are different kinds of love, adulation, respect, and admiration but none as powerful as the love of children. Children loved Madiba with unshakeable strength that had nothing to with
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My name is Jonica. I live in Clanwilliam but I am from Sterkspruit in Eastern Cape. I am really shy, but when somebody laughs or gossips about me, I don’t care. I want my people to be proud of where they come from. I am proud of my world, my people, my culture, and myself
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Themba wrote: I just love playing soccer with my friends. I also love playing rugby and I love my dog. Jamie I have a small white cat called Kitty-cat. I love playing with her. I also like to go and play in the veld with my friends. I love to go walking in the veld
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On Tuesday 10th of December, in Simon’s Town Library hall, there will be a gathering of storytellers, musicians and children to celebrate the end of one year – and anticipate the beginning of a new one! Programme: Children aged 10,11 and 12 have been invited from Red Hill informal settlement. Transport by bus has been
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After the recent two-day workshop in Clanwilliam, so many children asked for more, that CBN has initiated a Stories on Saturdays project. Our partner in this reading initiative, Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) is situated in an old school complex and offers plenty of space for different activities. CBN has been allocated a classroom of
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Grade Four children (9 years old) at Elizabethfontein Primary School wrote about emotions seen on faces. Yellow Happy faces: ‘I draw my friend, and that makes me happy.’ ‘Happy is when you get gold.’ ‘Happy is when the flowers come and the trees get new leaves.’ ‘This face is happy because the girl in that
End of the year exams begin on Monday. Today was the last day suitable to visit the Grade Four class, as promised. At ten o’clock CBN pulled up under a tree. Grade Four were ready. This is a reading school. Today we worked with the idea of emotions, first with story, then with a game
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Jay Heale reflects on changing methods of getting it all down on paper. When I started teaching in South Africa (in the archaic year of 1969) pupils were allowed to use fountain pens, but most still used the old dip-pen, an inkpot and a fresh sheet of blotting paper every week. Yes, really! There was
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Books of Africa – Jay Heale writes on some statistics from America, and thoughtfully examines some from his own experience in South Africa. Two sets of statistics have emerged from the United States recently. Well, we know what we think of statistics, don’t we! The US Census Bureau informs us that half of the children
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