VeSeL: Village e-Science for Life Blog

https://glsn.com/

an Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP) supporting remote communities with access to digital libraries for offline use.

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 4/03/2009 02:38:00 PM 1 comments

Royal Horticultural Society Campaign for School Gardening

Plant Scientists Investigate: lessons and activities for schools and gardens

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 2/26/2009 10:41:00 AM 0 comments

Institute of Education connections.

Article in IoE Life magazine about International Development unit, Summer 2008.

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 12/29/2008 07:54:00 PM 0 comments

Portable teaching tool using solar and wind for powering local experiments. Details here

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 4/28/2008 01:25:00 PM 0 comments

Teachers Talking Kenya is a project that brings together a group of rural school teachers in the Kangundo district to use the internet and learn on Friday evenings. The initial project was enabled by CAWD (virtual campus CAWDNET) and the Commonwealth of Learning.

For more see the Teachers Talking Blog

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Posted by x at 10/22/2007 09:04:00 AM 0 comments

The TESSA project website is now up. "TESSA is a research and development programme creating 'open content' multimedia resources and course design guidance for teachers and teacher educators in Sub-Saharan Africa." This could be useful for content for any educational work.

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Posted by josh_u at 1/19/2007 08:52:00 AM 0 comments

See BBC World Class for information about linked (several in Kenya) schools, experiences of school linking, resources fro linking schools etc...

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Posted by josh_u at 11/14/2006 02:20:00 PM 0 comments

These projects are interesting because of their experience with developing and using materials for in-service teacher training using handheld devices and laptops.

TESSA is a research and development programme creating 'open content' multimedia resources and course design guidance for teachers and teacher educators in Sub-Saharan Africa. Leading to a Toolkit for Educators and Planners : Designing Open and Distance Learning for Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. TESSA is led by The Open University (UK) and the African Virtual University (AVU) based in Nairobi, Kenya.


DEEP is a research and development programme investigating the use of new information and communications technology (ICT) for teaching and learning. It works in schools serving disadvantaged communities in different parts of the world.

Executive Summary for DEEP IMPACT: an investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education in the global south - Education Paper 58 is available here.

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Posted by josh_u at 10/25/2006 11:58:00 AM 0 comments

Yesterday, I heard someone say how SMS text messaging was being used in Kenya for in-service Teacher Training. Sounds interesting so I 'Googled' to find out a bit more. So far:

• The Potential for Using SMS to Support Learning and Organisation in
  Sub-Saharan Africa (a presentation.ppt, a paper.pdf)
  
• DFID/IMFUNDO have something to do with this
  

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Posted by josh_u at 10/19/2006 10:42:00 AM 0 comments