IESC Tanzania 2015

Two week chair series at the vocational school which we toured today.  Each class contributes a portion from the carpentry team to welding and even painting.  

Checking up on classmate PCs deployed last year at a rural school in Magugu.  Undeserved celebrity status reached by all.  

Celebrating final projects at Embarway  School District.  Congratulations on fantastic presentations Solomon and Winess.  We’re so happy for your fantastic success!

Meet our dedicated techie Steven with new friends

Good looking bunch in blue.

Last nights late night PC lab session. 

Shomari sharing his excellent presentation,  Check out these proud coaches - Benny and Mlanki.  

Fantastic group of dedicated students in a late night PC lab session.

Laura reviewing new material with a group.  Vanessa is the only student acting as a coach and is doing an excellent job.

Solomon and Agness working together filing folders on their laptops.  Solomon and Agness are one of 8 teams of 2 students and 1 coach.  Coaches are teachers or students with advanced skills who partner with two novice learners to coach learners on the training material in their local language.  We’re so fortunate to have so many excited teachers and coaches to support our PC basics training this week.

All our teachers and students arrived safely to the training center. Vincent, Joseph, Mary and Melchizedek wrapping up orientation learning more about what the week holds.  

We’re lucky enough to be able to use the GCFLearnFree Material in our training next week.  See if you’re as good as our teachers and students will be by next week.  Give the mouse training activity a go.  Can you get the snail to the water on your first try?  http://www.gcflearnfree.org/mousetutorial

Mainly to give something back of the much I have received, and at the same time it is a great opportunity to get to know a country and culture as well as colleagues unknown to me and work together with the local people towards a shared goal. The fact we will engage in a growth process with the local people, trying to help them to familiarize with modern technology and to find ways to use it to improve their lives, is exciting!  Also we will have the opportunity to learn from them and about them, so after two weeks we may feel a little bit less like strangers to each other. I cannot be certain of anything in advance, of course, except for that we will be giving that course and I will try to do my best to help them move forward. So there will be intensive interaction between ‘them’ and ‘us’  and I hope at the end of the project ‘them’ and ‘ us’  may feel a little bit more like ‘we ‘.

We’re excited to get started!

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