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What a great session with the EduNova facilitators today! We condensed about 4 workshops into a 3-hour period. We worked on integrating multimedia projects into the curriculum. During the session, we worked on projects using Presentation Software, Digital Storytelling, Video, and desktop publishing. At various times, we had digital cameras, cell phones,…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 21, 2009 at 13:00 —
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Well, another week has flown by. So many things happened this week, it is hard to remember them all. We started the week with a workshop for principals of the teachers we met in the first week. It was interesting to hear their perspective on things. The principal’s “boot-camp” lasted 2 days. In many ways, I would have liked for us to participate in more than a…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 19, 2009 at 13:00 —
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Ian and I gave a workshop on SMARTBoards for the Khanya facilitators today. It was interesting on many levels.
At some point during our first week, we were told that the Khanya facilitators were responsible for training the teachers to use the IWBs. The teachers clamoured for training, with most having little to no previous experience with a board.…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 17, 2009 at 16:25 —
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There's a movement in South Africa to equip every teacher with a laptop. The plan has undergone a number of major changes over the last year or so, but in the current incarnation, teachers are eligible for a stipend from the government if they purchase a laptop to use in preparing and delivering instruction.
In the schools, computers are scarce. A school might have a computer lab or two, but there aren't any computers in the classrooms. In many cases, I've seen SMART Boards…
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Added by John Schinker on July 17, 2009 at 15:00 —
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I am doing my MBA from Ireland in international business. I have worked with construction industry for couple of years including a stint in gulf area and I needed to submit my dissertation this semester. I have a special interest in business development and wanted some suggestions for
dissertations titles specifically focusing the Ireland industry. I was browsing through the website when I found this dissertation help website…
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Added by Rose Tyler on July 17, 2009 at 4:21 —
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We are in the middle of our week of workshops for facilitators. Today’s menu included a visioning workshop. When asked about the main goal or mission statement for the organization, the participants came up with a statement about getting computers and training to the school to allow for “curriculum delivery through ICT.”
Think about that for a…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 14, 2009 at 14:00 —
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We visited the Cape of Good Hope today. Along the way we stopped in Simon’s Town and saw some penguins. I brought along one of the Flip video cameras that were donated to leave in Africa and was able to capture some video footage to take back for students at home to work with.
I often say that teachers do all the things we wish our learners would…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 11, 2009 at 13:30 —
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The first week of workshops is finished. When we arrived home, I went for a walk on the beach and looked back on the week. Here are a few reflections on things that I have learned from these wonderful South African Educators.
1. Slow down and take it easy. I realized this week that it has been a long time since I have worked with teachers who…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 10, 2009 at 13:30 —
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Today was the day for discussing issues of access to ICT, and the formation of ICT committees in the schools. I had arranged to have a Skype call with someone who supports and coordinates ICT Integration at the school board level in my home school board. We were waiting to start the Skype call on the big screen when he dropped off Skype.
As I…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 10, 2009 at 13:30 —
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I was able to listen to a group a educators in a session this afternoon sing a song called “Shoshanna”. This is a song that is sung all over Africa during soccer matches and the like.. It was a wonderful mingling of the rich, powerful, happy voices of our colleagues. The rhythms of it went straight through to my core. I feel so lucky to have been there…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 9, 2009 at 13:30 —
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Well, I have been in South Africa, specifically Cape Town, for a little over a day now. I am here with a Teachers Without Borders – Canada team who will provide ICT training to for teachers from schools in the Townships.
While I am still trying to take it all in and assimilate what I have been seeing.
We visited the school where we will be…
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Added by Jody Meacher on July 5, 2009 at 13:30 —
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I have been on the road now for nearly a week now after finishing a crazy academic year of much travel and one of the best teaching years I can remember. The last few weeks have been a flurry of submitting reports, packing for a conference in DC and Africa, saying goodbye to staff and students at one school and meetings and introductions to a new school. When I return from Africa in late August, I will officially begin my new job of directing…
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Added by Sharon Peters on July 4, 2009 at 16:00 —
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June 28, 2009
On Friday I packed the last of my things, said my goodbyes to the staff, students and parents that I have worked with for the last five years, locked my classroom and handed in the key. On Monday, it will be given to someone else, and my nameplate will be removed and replaced, at least for the next two years.
I am now officially “on extended leave” from my life in Canada and my career in the Ontario public school system. While the staff…
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Added by Michael Peters on June 28, 2009 at 13:00 —
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I am inviting all great spirited teachers from around the world to join my Virtual School
www.nederburgvirtualschool.org
We are a school that wants to Collaborate with schools from around the world. To create reusable learning content for our learners and enable them to explore the infinite possibilities that the Digital Media can offer.
Regards,
Errol Keet
Added by Errol Keet on June 23, 2009 at 5:25 —
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First is to thank Almighty God for the life He Has given unto us.
Being an ICT teacher in North Eastern is a big Challenge. You wake up one day you find many learners to teach, Oh! the next day you don't have even one then you wonder what a day?
There is Low knowledge of ICT in the region so, there is need to create awareness to enhance the community about the need for ICT in the region in terms of regional and national development to assist the achievement of the vision…
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Added by Daniel Mutinda Munuve on June 14, 2009 at 5:55 —
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Youth Media in Nigeria
Lee Rother, PhD
In March 2006, I spent three incredibly rewarding and challenging weeks in Western Nigeria introducing Media Education to hundreds of primary and secondary students and their educators in numerous schools. My experiences in Nigeria came at the invitation of the Youth for Technology Organization, and Martins Akpan; the co-coordinator of Teens Resource Centre and producer of a community cable program titled TEENSWORLD on MCTV. This…
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Added by Lee Rother, PhD on April 24, 2009 at 14:05 —
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I was looking at the Earth Treasury wiki and found it wonderful project, piggybacking on OLPC's computer program in education in order to further health, economic opportunity, human rights, and anything else in the way of sustainable development. Nothing could have come to me at the appropriate time than this resource. My interest is provoked by our desire to put teachers and children in public schools in Kenya, on the path of ICT’s, more specifically, how to use ICT is improving learning…
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Added by Dan Andrew Otedo on April 4, 2009 at 7:30 —
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What the US government is doing in revamping education in America is may be just what Kenya needs now more than ever. While our education system is a pale comparison to the education systems in the northern countries Kenya’s education (like that of her sister East African states) needs a bold radical surgery in the public education.
Whereas the government of Kenya continues to grapple with insurmountable social and economic challenges, it should not be lost to us that the quality of…
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Added by Dan Andrew Otedo on March 14, 2009 at 15:30 —
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This blog post starts today 10 March 2009. Just back from training of educators on the use of OneNote in lesson preparation. The trainees were quite delighted.
Added by Charles Robert Adjah on March 10, 2009 at 9:30 —
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Growing Up In Africa's Cruelest War Zone
It's terrible to be a child anyplace without adequate food, shelter or access to education. Add war, and society's youngest members face a life of relentless horror and uncertainty. But even war seldom produces the kind of cruelty endured by children in African war turned zones like Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, etc. Over the past two decades rebels in this war areas have systematically used child abuse as a military strategy. First children as…
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Added by Maurice MArtin on March 1, 2009 at 12:30 —
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