MirandaNet Fellows in Free State, South Africa
During the past few months MirandaNet has been supporting the Department of Education in Free State Province, South Africa, to implement an e-learning project – the e-Lapa Project.
Ten schools across the province were selected to form part of a pilot project from October 2004 – March 2005. Insights gained by the Free State will be applied to the wider project, which is set to embed e-learning in all schools in the Province by 2010.
Christina Preston’s involvement started a year ago: she has tirelessly worked with Free State officials to develop the project, and in October 2004 she, together with Christine Knight, who was the MirandaNet Administrator at the time, and eight fellows flew to Bloemfontein. For a week the MirandaNet Fellows worked in the schools with their Free State counterparts. Following that visit the MirandaNet Fellows continued to support the schools online via email and the Internet.
Online
work has recently been augmented by a visit by 30 students and 26 teacher
members of the 10 Free State pilot schools to the UK in early January. Learners,
educators and the Learning Advisers for the ten schools arrived in January
and spent three days working at Chafford
Hundred school, Essex. After that they spent two days in the schools of
their MirandaNet colleagues, followed by time at the BETT Exhibition. Visit
the online environment
for the e-Lapa project by following
this link. You will also find details of the visit, and work by educators
and learners, by visiting
the online Gallery.
[Follow this link to read more about the Elapa Project at BETT05]
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