Dan Andrew Otedo
Male
Nairobi
Kenya
Profile Information:
- Subject area expertise
- History and Religious Education
- Grade level(s) taught
- grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12
- Present status
- Certified/Licensed Educator
- Language(s) you can instruct in
- English
- Number of years teaching experience
- 11-15
- Skills & Interests
- Integrating the Development Of Information And Communication Technology With Societal Applications, To Enhance Government Business And Community Welfare..
I have a plethora of experience having been a high school teacher for over 10 years and later involved in ICT4D and ICT in education initiatives. I have been involved in Community-based capacity building initiatives in training young women in rural and marginalized urban areas to use ICT’s to generate new business activities, new income, and new jobs and in the long term community development opportunities.
I have also managed a youth employability training program under the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Group at the African centre for Women Information and communications Technology ACWICT www.acwict.org
I have managed the Innovative Women Teachers program, a Microsoft Partners in Learning project that aims among other things providing opportunity for ICT integration in teaching as well as helping realise the potential of the girl child using education.This involved customizing the e-Learning Microsoft Digital Literacy curriculum, and training Trainer of trainers at the Kenya Institute of Education and deploying them to train teachers in the countryside.
Working with Rural Schools Computers and Educational Materials Program www.rural.or.ke ,I have also trained over 50 Youth Polytechnic and National Youth Service ICT Instructors at the National Youth Service Training Institute, with the theme of integration of e-learning in national youth Polytechnic for sustainable development the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Microsoft ESA.
2009-2010: Consultant -Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance VVOB Belgium, providing buddy ICT skills training and ICT Integration in Education to Senior Managers of the Ministry of Education Kenya.
My scope of work has been authoring and localising training manuals for capacity building on ICT integration in Education for Senior Education Managers at the Ministry of Education Kenya , as well as providing training on Microsoft Office Outlook and Outlook Web Access training to secretaries at the Ministry of Education Kenya.
June 2009 Trained 55 National Youth Polytechnic Instructors and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on integration of e-learning in Youth Polytechnics for sustainable development with support from Microsoft Partners in Learning using the Microsoft Digital Literacy curriculum.
I am also a trustee of the Organic Health Response (OHR Trust), OHR represents a mission cultivated by a group of Kenyan organic farmers, health workers, and teachers and a team of international medical and graduate students which through local and global partnerships, are setting up a unique solar powered Cyber – VCT facility called the Ekialo Kiona Center. The project will use information communications technology, social solidarity and ecological sustainability to turn the tide against HIV/AIDS. In Mfangano islands on Lake Victoria - If you are willing to volunteer, in what area(s):
- internships, membership outreach, organisational partnerships, workshop facilitation
- How did you hear about us and a few words why you want to join EBB:
- From Mali Bain, through the Minciu Sodas laboratory.She was leading a team of TWB members in Naivasha .We met with the group at the Kenya institute of Education where i was overseeing an ICT teacher trainer of trainee workshop
marijka
Sep 29, 2009
marijka
Oct 22, 2009
David Wahome Kibui
Hi Dan, am still exploring and now I see what very rich activities you have been engaged in. hope to continue learning and when time comes to chip in on any part that I can. Thanks a lot. From David
May 28, 2013