Bygone are the days of blackboard, chalk and text books in the classroom
For the past week a group of five engineers and trainers from Intel Education Services Corps (IESC) have been visiting the primary schools providing support to the teachers on the use of the Intel-powered classmate PCs. The team was led by Linda Kenworthy who
have all volunteered to take part in the educational programme in
Seychelles.
With the help of the trainers and engineers, over 40 teachers from the 23 primary schools on Mahe, Praslin, La Digue and Silhouette upgraded their technological skills in maintenance of the equipments and creating lessons using the software on the CMPCs and teacher's laptop.
"We trained the teachers on the classroom management software (mythware) so that they can create lesson plans on the teacher laptop and share these with the students via the Intel-powered classmate PCs,” said Ms Kenworthy. "We are in other words, training the trainers,” she added.
The CMPCs program was launched in the primary schools since 2010 and initially the Ministry of Education had trained the teachers to use the technology in their classrooms.However, with movements of teachers, resignation and teachers who have taken up further studies it has not been easy for some schools to fully implement the program.
The session was attended by the primary school teachers involved in the training as well as Ministry of Education officials.
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Seychelles? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Seychelles in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez