1998     Invited by Microsoft South Africa to attend the              BETT 98 International Conference/Show in              London with the specific aim of establishing a              Connected Learning Community at St Alban’s              College - A first in South Africa 1998-01 Co-opted member of SchoolNet South              Africa Transitional Executive Board              responsible for Content Development 1998-01 Chairperson of the reconstituted Gauteng              School’s Network representative of the whole              of the province  http://www.gp.school.za 1998     Chairperson of the organising committee for the                International Student Project for Gifted                Children to held at St Alban’s College  in                           collaboration with the Victorian                Education Department                www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/futures/bf_isp.htm 1998       Invited to Represent the CSIR at the Global                Connectivity in Africa Conference held in                Addis Ababa to display the Curriculum                Management Tool and Wireless Technology, 1998       Presented a paper,                Warmware Issues in Education,                at the Regional Preparatory Conference,                UNISPACE III for Africa and the Middle East                Regions, in Rabat, 1998       Invited to present a paper on                The Connected Learning Community                at the Science and Society >98 conference                held at the CSIR, 1998       Co-authored the publication of 38                grade 7-9 text books  in Technology Education                through Maskew Miller Longman –                Series title “Technology Today”