Hello everybody. It is GREAT to have you join the course. Welcome!
I have transferred your introductions to the blog! Please open 'Comments' under this post and look through the names... and reply to anyone that you recognise and also to some new folk! let's make each other feel welcome! To reply just click on the Reply button below the comment - and don't forget to add your name if you reply in the anonymous category.
You should have received Email 1 as well as Email 2 from me. The course starts next week Monday 21st July and very shortly you'll receive Email 3 with details for the week.
Just to summarise:
Week 1: Introducing digital storytelling
During the first week of the course, participants will learn about digital storytelling and very straightforward licensing methods for online creations. The free Creative Commons licensing a wonderful way to share stories on the web.
The webinar presentation: ‘‘Introduce digital storytelling in your classroom’’
Week 2: What makes a good story for a learner in the early grades
During the second week we will become familiar with the African Storybook website and what it offers. We'll consider what the African Storybook team is looking for in a story i.e. length, reading levels ideas etc. and talk about what children need when they are learning to read.
The webinar presentation: ‘How to use the African Storybook Project website in your classroom’
Week 3: Finding Inspiration for your story
During the third week of the course, participants will learn about the different methods of creating a story, and practise writing a story offline. We'll look at story starter ideas and consider ways to structure a story
The webinar presentation ‘It's time to write our stories’
Week 4: Adding your story to a suitable presentation template and discovering ways of illustrating your story
During the fourth week of the course, participants will be introduced to using a presentation application such as PowerPoint or similar (depending on the device being used) for their digital writing. We'll consider different ways of illustrating a story and will start on the illustrations for your story. We'll discover how to add these illustrations to our story presentation application.
The webinar presentation: ‘Illustrating your story and adding it to PowerPoint (or similar)’
Week 5: Converting your digital story to a video (optional)
In the final week participants will be given the option of adding different elements to their stories such as narration and music. We will look at ways of converting the story to a video and posting it online.
The webinar presentation: 'Convert your story to a video and publish your digital creation online'
My name is Jenny Mauchan and I am the ICT integrator at Fish Hoek Primary. I spend my day teaching Computer classes form Grade R right up to Grade 7. I took part in the African story book project last year. this year I would like to involve my older learners in the project as well.
ReplyDelete1. I am Claire Wilkinson from Durban Girls' College.
ReplyDelete2. Teaching grades 8 - 12; Life Orientation, History & Counselling.
3. It interests me and I thought it's quite a nice idea for Grades 9s to create stories with their iPads."
My name is Mabore Lekalakala and I work as a teacher at Toronto Primary School. I spend my day teaching Maths and Computer Literacy with iPads and Computers. After school, I work with learners on Spelling Bee, Drama, Poetry, Storytelling, Maths games and Computer projects. With this course, I hope to improve on the stories my learners wrote last year and to have my entire class participating in this year's digital story writing.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Toronto Primary School?
DeleteMy name is Nombulelo Yeni and I am employed by Department of Education, UmIazi District Office, Special Need Education Service. I spend my day visiting schools for support, holding meetings with SMT member, principals of schools and conducting workshops. I'm hoping to develop skills of developing digital stories in IsiZulu and publishing the stories for teachers to access and use with their learners.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Maureen Els and I teach in a preprimary in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, . I have been wanting to write stories for children for quite a while - perhaps this venture will help me get started!
ReplyDeleteI am Roy Auret, school principal at the Barrydale High School, a school with 500 learners from grade R to grade 12. I am teaching Afrikaans and Mathematics for grades 6 and 8. I am interested in using the computer and digital devices in my classroom and would like to start writing stories in Afrikaans because when you go to a shop, there are lots and lots of childrens' books in other languages, but not much in Afrikaans. It will be a whole new experience for me.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Paul Critchlow from Mount Pleasant Primary in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I run the computer centre, teaching the learners from Gr R to Grade 7 on Technology Integration. We are a dual medium school.
ReplyDeleteHi! I'm Helen Laas from Embury Institute for Teacher Education in Durban. I'm a lecturer in the teaching in Literacy in the Foundation Phase, with a specialization in Inclusive Education. I lecture to undergrad students in Literacy, Inclusive Ed and Using IT in the classroom. I love reading and I love toys, especially digital ones... and I love anything that makes reading easier for children who are experiencing difficulties, so I am hoping to find a way to inspire my students to use technology in another way in their future classrooms.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Tebogo Moremi from Tukisang Primary in Stilfontein, South Africa. I am an English, EMS and Maths teacher for Grade 7s. i love reading and interacting with others especially for improving teaching approaches. I have learners who are lazy and therefore poor readers. i hope to find ways of developing interest and therefore love for reading in this course. I also wish to be expert teacher using technology to be able to share with my colleagues.
ReplyDelete"My name is Antoinette Majiedt from Kloofview Primary School in Rustenburg, South Africa. I teach Afrikaans as a first additional language for Tswane speaking learners.Gr.4-7.I am also Head of Department of languages and IT at our school. I love to read and also excercise.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to enhance the language use at our school because it is actually a third language that is compulsary in our curriculum and
By doing this course i will be helping learners to learn in a fun way and exposing them to learn using IT."
I am Florence Masetla from Johannesburg, South Africa. I am an adult educator and ICT researcher and I have recently taken an interest in child and youth development. I love telling and hearing stories. I am hoping to learn more about story telling using technology.
ReplyDeleteI'm Thejane Malakane and am an educator at Toloane Primary School in Maseru, Lesotho. I spend my day teaching and assisting learners in their academic work.
ReplyDeleteI hope to get professional ideas on how to develop a digital book that I can use in my teaching.
My name is Ntsoaki Mokala. I am an educator at Don Mattera School in Johannesburg, South Africa, which provides service to learners with social educational needs. Due to the nature of my students, who include among others those who are autistic, hyperactive and other multiple disabilities, my teaching is structured around issues relating to social responsibility, hygiene and learning to be independent. The syllabus is structured on learners acquiring skills,helping them cope with their disabilties and finding their 'place' in their communities. Through my participation in this course, I am hoping:
ReplyDelete• to find ways to enrich learners through storytelling in their own mother tongue
•to empower learners to use and appreciate their own languages
•to acquire knowledge and skill of how to create and publish stories online
I am Lehlohonolo Raymond Mokopotsa from the Lesotho College of Education in Maputsoe in Lesotho. I spend most of my time studying. I am hoping to get skills and techniques on how to teach pupils apart from that information about my reaches.
ReplyDelete1) Bronwyn Desjardins
ReplyDelete2) ICT Integration & Resource Centre Co-ordinator at St Stithians Girls' Prep in Randburg, South Africa
3) I am hoping to find ideas to share with the staff and to get the Grade 3 to 5 girls that I teach research skills to to create their own digital stories.
1) Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn, Parklands College, Cape Town, South Africa
ReplyDelete2) Lead ICT Integrator: I research, facilitate, assist, demonstrate integration of ICT into teaching and learning: Visual Arts educator Grade 12.
3) I would like to see how other people are creating books and illustrations, I would like new ideas, I would like to contribute to a worthy cause.
Hi, my name is Kerry Dunkley and I am a teacher librarian at Somerset College Prep in Somerset West, South Africa. I love using digital storytelling with my Grade 00-3 classes and am looking forward to creating something I can call my own. I hope to learn both storytelling skills as well as how to implement them digitally in an e-book/iBook. I have attempted to use a couple of the templates offered online but they have proven to be too complicated (coding e.t.c) or simply not good enough. Thanks Fiona!
ReplyDelete"My name is Xoliswa Magubane. I am an educator at Sobantu Secondary School in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. At the moment I'm teaching Business Studies to Grade 11s and Life Orientation to Grades 9, 10 and 12. I used to teach Computer Applications Technology but that was discontinued at my school. I also do counselling to the learners that really needs it. That's how I spend most of my days at work. I hope to gain storytelling skills since I would like to do that when I retire (write books)
ReplyDelete1) Kathy Aitken, Roedean School (SA) in Gauteng, South Africa.
ReplyDelete2) I am the I.T. Teacher, but am also responsible for ICT integration in the classroom, specifically in assisting teachers to achieve meaningful blended learning.
3) I am hoping to get a better idea of digital storytelling ,and the implementation thereof, so that I can assist any teachers who would like to try this. And it sounds like a fun course!
I am Paul Mudau, a teacher from Thaba-Morula High School in Brits, South Africa. I teach Afrikaans and English to Grade 12 and 11 learners.
ReplyDeleteI am Andrea Kritzinger from Paarl Girls' High School in Paarl, South Africa.
ReplyDeleteI am responsible for Tech Integration Grade R - 9
I am Marina Moller, a lecturer at North-West University, in the School of Educational Sciences in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. I teach all the computer related subjects to all the student teachers. I want to integrate digital storytelling in the teaching of my subjects so that the students also learn how to do that and integrate that in the school when they have finished with their studies.
ReplyDeleteI am Amy Jensen from the North West University in Vereeniging, South Africa. I teach Academic English to undergraduate students. I would like to incorporate this writing activity into one of my modules that is aimed at Foundation Phase teachers.
ReplyDeleteI'm Nikki Steyn from Crawford Prep in Pretoria, South Africa. I teach ICT (computer studies) to the little ones, from grade 0-3. The kids thoroughly enjoy working on a computer (which makes my days great - well... usually). I did this course last year, however, I never completed my story and so my aim is to finish one story! I also let my Grade 2s and 3s participate and 16 stories were submitted and 'distributed'. This year I'm hoping for over 50 completed stories (eish.. it's a bit much, but why not?!). Some of my colleagues might join too!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Elvis Sehlabaka and I work at Thotagauta Secondary School in Welkom, South Africa. I am spending my day teaching learners, I hope to aquire knowledge on how to teach learners using computers.
ReplyDelete1) Elizabeth Tait - previously Crawford College La Lucia, South Africa
ReplyDelete2) Retired
3) The College is re-organizing the approach to teaching the junior grades with particular reference to online teaching and learning. I would like to get involved with providing course material for them.
My name is Ntsoaki Ramabolu. I am a Mosotho woman aged 27 and I work as a full time instructor at Leqele High School in Maseru, Lesotho..It is a government school for disadvantaged learners so they have a bad English foundation and a low literacy rate. I spend most of my time there teaching them English language as the second language. From this course I hope to get equipped with more skills that will help in improving my learners' literacy rate.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Lynette Snyman and I am working temporarily at St Stithians Girls' Prep in Johannesburg, South Africa. I teach Afrikaans First Additional Language to Grade 4, 6 and 7. I am very interested in storytelling and believe that it has many educational and social benefits.
ReplyDeleteI am Linda Bradfield the ICT Co-ordinator at St Mary's, Waverley in Johannesburg, South Africa. I assist teachers by facilitating the integration of ICT into their lessons. I do a lot of staff development in this field to make teachers feel more at home as they use computers and mobile devices in their lessons.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to use this as another means to include a more interesting an exciting approach to teaching and learning."
Hi, My name is Eric Mzolo from Falesizwe Secondary School in Frankfort, South Africa.I work with computers at school as a CAT teacher and economics as well on daily basis ,I spend most of my time on the computer performing various tasks .
ReplyDeleteFrom this course i hope to gain a lot from the trainers and most of all be in a position to apply what I have learnt and also to pass on the skills I gained to other educators who really are in need of them most ie: primary school educators as they deal daily with the Grade 1-3 learners.
I am Carlene Gonzo from BRIDGE in Johannesburg, South Africa. I am a project and knowledge manager at this organisation. I am looking for new and innovative ways to share our organisation's work.
ReplyDeleteI am Hawa Bib Patel , an educator at Roshnee Islamic School in Vereeniging, South Africa. I am HOD of ICT at the school. I lead the school magazine which is coordinated by learners and write articles for the local newspaper and business magazines.
ReplyDeleteI hope to improve my writing skilss to benefit my learners submitting articles to the school magazine and at the same time help others come on borad"
1. My name is Bonelela Memani. I am an isiZulu teacher at St Stithian's Girls Prep in Randburg, South Africa. .
ReplyDelete2. I teach isiZulu as a First Additional Language to Gr 3 - 7 girls. [Work experience 22 years - I worked at Johannesburg College of Education, WITS Education Campus, St Mary's School for Girls Waverley and Sacred Heart College]
3. I'm hoping to gain more knowledge on writing for First Additional Foundation Phase learners and help the underprivileged in developing the love of reading in both isiZulu and basic English.
My name is Karin Horne. I am Deputy of the Foundation Phase at Crawford Pretoria. I did this course last year and loved it. I wWant to do it again to learn all the options I did not do last time round. Learnt so much and need to learn more! I will again write my own stories as I do not have a register class to work with. Writing stories for children is a very enriching and fun thing to do. Wakes up sluggish brain cells too. I can't wait for the first email! Thank you, Fiona and Lorato, for presenting the course once again!
ReplyDeleteKarin R Horne"
Hi my name is Agotha Clarke and I work at St Mary's school for girls in Waverley, Johannesburg. I am a Grade 0 teacher and would like to learn more about creating stories digitally.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Lynn Trollip I work at St Mary's School in Waverley, Johannesburg. I teach Grade 0 girls. Enjoyment of creating a digital storybook learning to use iPad and including it in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Marie Crooks from Crawford Preparatory in Johannesburg. I hope to improve my technology skills, feel creative and achieve something different.
ReplyDelete1. Claire Wilkinson from Durban Girls' College.
ReplyDelete2. Teaching Life Orientation, History and Counselling.
3. learn something new.
1) Cheryn Baier from Maranatha School in Piet Retief, South Africa.
ReplyDelete2) I teach a co-ed class of Grade 4 second language students. I'm the IT facilitator and run the Grade 4-7 Computer Classes. I coach athletics, netball and mini cricket in season.
3) I hope to gain the knowledge and skills required to use digital story telling as a tool for both my own stories and the creative writing of my classes."
I am Jenny de Gouveia from St Andrew's School for boys in Bloemfontein. I teach Grade 2s. I could do with motivation / inspiration for digital learning in my classroom
ReplyDelete1.. Lindsay Husted (Mindset Network, Johannesburg, South Africa)
ReplyDelete2. Learn Xtra Content Coordinator - I help create & curate content for our various Gr 10 - 12 revision projects.
3. I am always eager to learn/explore new ways in which to make learning more creative & accessible!
Hi, my name is Margie Fussell. I teach IT to Gr 0-2 girls at St Mary's in Waverley Johannesburg. Each class has an hour lesson a week. There are 2 classes for each grade.I hope to learn new skills that perhaps I could get the older girls to try. It will also be wonderful to work in a collaborative forum to create books for children to read.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Romela Gajadhur from Embury College in Durban. I do ACI and ELS with adult students who are currently teaching at creches and pre-schools. This method will benefit these students and their learners as well
ReplyDeleteMy name is Kathy Cowie. I teach class music at Crawford Prep in Pretoria to Grade 0,1,2 and 3 children. I have always dreamed of writing for children, and in the past years have been involved in co-writing our school concerts. I also write a lot of music which has been given the thumbs up by the children I teach.
ReplyDeleteHi! My name is Barry Morgan. I teach English at Wesgreen International School in Dubai.I have a short play published as one of an anthology of short plays for high schools in South Africa. I am hoping this course will motivate me into writing regularly.
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Thank you."
I am Brenda Hendricks and I teach at Steenberg High School in Cape Town. I am the Technology educator for grades 8 & 9 and have been doing so since its inception to the curriculum. I am also the co-ordinator of Klawerjas (a fascinating, indigenous card game) as well as Darts and I participate actively on various major committees at school. I am very interested in getting to grips with this course as I am an avid reader with two lively grandkids whom I am busy teaching how to read and spell. To this end I do believe this course will be the inspiration that I need to assist not only those entrusted to my care but my kin as well.
ReplyDeleteI am Absolom Netsianda, a curriculum advisor and ICT coordinator
ReplyDeleteat Vhembe District, Nzhelele East Circuit, Thohoyandou-Limpopo in South Africa
Hi Absolom, looking forward to working together. Mabore
DeleteHi, my name is Mathandi Mokumo. I am working at Landau ICT Centre in Witbank, South Africa. I spend the day conducting training for out of school youth, educators and learners. I am hoping that at the end of the course I will be able to write my own digital story and will share the skills and expertise learned with my clients from different spheres of life.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Anusha Govender. I am an educator at a government school, Wembley Primary School in Phoenix, Durban.
ReplyDeleteHi. My name is Tebogo Moremi. I teach at Tukisang Primary School. The school is in the North West Province in South Africa. I am teaching English FAL, Maths, EMS. I am very interested in ICT. I have attended ICT conference for the past two year and have gained a lot. I wish to ultimately become an ICT teacher. As a language teacher, I believe the course can help me a lot in developing love for reading and language usage in general.
ReplyDeleteI am Tebogo Molefe, a Skills Development Facilitator registered by the ETDP SETA and CEC of Geleza Educational Solutions in Johannesburg. My academic qualification includes Business Management, Marketing, Digital Branding and Project Management. These have horned me to be a qualified facilitator in the field of education and technology. I have been assigned by Intel Education to facilitate the Intel Teach Program on Educators computer literacy, which is currently being offered to schools nationally.
ReplyDeleteHe lectured E-Marketing at TUT and was also a part of a research project in the One Laptop Per Child in Kliptown. His approach to learning is centered on the belief that each person, whether child or adult, can learn new methods that will allow learning to become an enjoyable process"
I am Josephine Nkadimeng from Itireleng Primary in Emalahleni, South Africa. I am interested in how to write interesting stories for Grades 1-3 using Sepedi as Home Language,catering for different reading levels
ReplyDelete1) My name is Rakel Kavena Shalyefu from the University of Namibia
ReplyDelete2) I am a lecturer in the Department of Lifelong Learning and Community Education
3) I hope to learn how to write digital stories
My name is Andriëtte Gous and I am the Librarian at SAHETI School in Senderwood, South Africa. I would love to learn about digital storytelling as I have never used it.
ReplyDeleteHi there, I am Thomas Rademeyer. I work for Ls Die Poort, a small primary school in Pretoria, South Africa as a Grade 5 teacher, doing the English second language and Life Orientation. I teach, I coach and I entertain, and that is how I spent my days. I love writing, and hope to learn a few things that can benefit my own writing for the school as well as personally.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Debbie Baker. I am the ""Reading Room"" facilitator for the Foundation Phase - Grades 0-3 at Crawford Preparatory School in Pretoria. I spend my day enthusing young children with a love for reading. I help the Grade One children with all their reading tasks.
ReplyDeleteEach class has an opportunity to visit the reading room once a cycle to come and enjoy a P4C lesson with me - that's a Philosophy for children lesson.
We have lots of fun and enter into some serious discussion as well!
I love to tell and read stories, so I hope to develop more as a story teller by doing this course."
I am Nontobeko Ngcobo from Inqolayolwazi Primary School in Pietermaritzburg. Today I spent my day at the library with learners loaning books to read during winter holidays. I hope to learn more skills on how to help the learners be best story tellers.
ReplyDeleteHi. I'm Cathy Tansell. I teach the Grade 0 girls at St Marys in Pretoria. They are the babies in a school that goes up to matric! I would like to add value to stories that I have already written for various lessons as well as be inspired by the ideas of others. It is always good to share our talents.
ReplyDeleteI am Jackson Ssekiryango from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. I spend the biggest part of my day in my office reading, writing or marking. This course will ease the process of writing stories for children and I will adopt the method in my teaching of writing skills in my department.
ReplyDeleteI am Sipho Shongwe a lecturer at the University of Swaziland. I offer courses in the Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum and Teaching both fulltime and in distance learning. As a a former school teacher and current teacher trainer I have a story to tell, hence am looking forward to this course to be equipped on digital storytelling and share with colleagues experiences.
ReplyDeleteI am Prosperous Nankindu, a Lecturer at Kyambogo University, Department of languages and communication, in Kampala, Uganda. For the next three months, I intend to be spending most of my time in the library trying to write some materials for publication out of my PhD research findings. I hope to learn more about digital story telling and writing for early grade learners.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Pamela Ngugi. I am a lecturer in the Department of Swahili at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. I spend my day teaching and reading. I also spend some of my days writing stories. I hope to enrich my skills in writing captivating stories for children.
ReplyDeleteHi I'm Solly Mkansi,an e-Learning facilitator in the Gauteng Department of Education-Ekurhuleni South, in Alberton, South Africa. Most of the time I train teachers on integrating ICTs into the curriculum. I expect to know more about how Digital Storytelling can enhance the teaching of language.
ReplyDeleteI am Ndabayithethwa Fikizolo, a Deputy Principal at Nozizwe Primary
ReplyDeleteSchool in Klerksdorp, South Africa, and I am responsible for the curriculum development of the educators at our school. This course will better equip me in coaching and training my staff. I have also encouraged them to register for this course.
My name is Pinky Macheke and I am a librarian at Patogeng Primary School in Pretoria. From this course I am hoping that i will gain creativity of writing stories and discovering what stories will make kids enjoy reading all the time. Lastly learn to write stories for different levels, and how to version the Level 3 stories to Level one stories. .
ReplyDeleteI am Coumba Toure from Ashoka Transforming Youth Years in Dakar, Senegal, I was born and raised between Mali and Senegal, I am the coordinator for Ashoka Africa Empathy Initiative. I am currently working on transforming education systems to raise a new generation of changemakers. I am a co founder Sogoba Production a social entereprise based in West Africa whereI design education material for children. I am a writer and a storyteller. I have extensive experience in facilitating meetings, engaging young people, and designing and implementing and evaluating training programs to promote human’s rights specially for women. I have worked with many organizations such as the Institute for Popular Education in Mali http://iepmali.org, the 21st century youth leadership movement in Selma Alabama, and the Youth for Environmental Sanity in Santa Cruz California (http://www.yesworld.org.) I am a feminist, and board member of the Urgent Action Fund for Women Africa. She also serves as an advisor to the Global Fund for Women and to the New Field Foundation and to IDEX. I am a mother, a sister, and a daughter to many. She is currently a How Fellow . My work is to help show the necessity of change in the education systems and I am looking for individual and institutions that i can partner with to do that. I also write and publish children book through Sogoba production Coumba.
ReplyDeleteI am Ruth Zakosa from the Zenex Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa. I manage the communications portfolio at the Foundation. My responsibilities include uploading relevant information on the Zenex strategy, projects, research and evaluation on the Zenex website, managing the Zenex brand, conceptualising, arranging and managing Zenex events and writing some documents for the Zenex team. We wwant to upload some stories on the Zenex site, howver, these stories are not for learners in school, but primarily the Zenex stories and the stories of some of our project beneficiaries. I hope the course will provide an alternative way of creating these stories, in an audio format.
ReplyDeleteI am Kelly du Plessis from Crawford preparatory, La Lucia, Durban. I teach Grade One and I am interested in keeping up-to-date with the exciting new things happening in the classroom related to new technology. I've always been a interested in stories and literacy, so this is a great combination of both.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Thandeka Majola. I work for the Centre of Adult Education at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, I do not have a tertiary background but I developed a lot of skills from working in this centre.
ReplyDeleteI will like to learn more in order to boost my skills and experience I have. I am a translator, research assistant, material developer for adult learners. and i am also doing a lot of work in this centre as I am developing material that will be use to train KwaZulu Natal Traditional Council"
I am Kennedy Oulu, the Country Director of The Foundation For Tomorrow in Arusha, Tanzania. I do a lot of people management, mentoring and other related stuff, Jowever I know there is a gap in complimentary stories that holistically develop our children and youth. This course should help me contribute to bridging this gap.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Samuel Andema. I am the founder and executive secretary of Firm Foundation Education Trust - a newly founded Community Based Organization in Arua, Uganda which has a mission to promote researched-based, theoretically grounded literacy instruction in schools and communities to transform society. I normally spend my day three surfing the Net, writing and responding to email, performing office work, going out to do outreach programs, and staying with my family.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Doris Maandebo Abiria. I am a tutor at Arua Core Primary Teachers' College in Uganda. I specifically work as a Center Coordinating Tutor at Arua Hill Coordinating Centre where I coordinate professional development in 61 primary schools under the cluster.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Thamie Nzama, an intern at an ICT Centre in Durban, working on the system. Since it is a Centre, many people come in and out. I have always been keen to learn one of the African languages, Swahili in particular.
ReplyDelete1) Dr. Shelley Jones, Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University - Institute for Educational Development, East Africa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
ReplyDelete2) Teaching, research, student supervision
3) Interested in learning more about ASP to support students who may be keen to use ASP in their teaching
I'm Nicole Schouela and I am the founder and overseas director of Stand Tall Training Centre, a primary school in Kampala, Uganda. I have also sent this link to our school administrators and teaching staff in Uganda. Having just attended the African Storybook Conference in Vancouver, my intention is to familiarize myself with the nuts and bolts of implementing the African Storybook project and to work on integrating it into our curriculum. I'll be in Uganda in October and feel this would be a perfect time to take the course and discuss it in October with our staff there.
ReplyDeleteI'm Kate Nkwane Deputy Principal at Patogeng Primary in Atteridgeville, Johannesburg. .As Head of Curriculum I have passion in the development of Literacy at our School. I hope to be empowered and skilled with the process on how to write strories digitally to teach learners .
ReplyDelete1) Nathalie Koenig, Axium Education, Zithulele, Eastern Cape.
ReplyDelete2) I spend my days doing a combination of English teaching to Grade 6-12 learners, and coordinating a team of 'community readers' who run a Foundation Phase literacy programme at two local schools. I am also exploring strategies for increasing reading and writing for enjoyment in this community, and ways to support teachers who in their English teaching, and use of stories in the classroom. It still seems like quite a new position - so days are varied!
3) I hope to learn about a new tool to engage young writers with - which will hopefully motivate and inspire them to write more! I'm excited about the multilingual opportunities in this forum - and hope that learners will be inspired to write in their mother tongue. I also hope that it will give me an incentive to experiment with learner writing more, as it will get writing development higher up on my radar through engaging the course content.
Hi my name is Trish Bosch and I teach at Hurlyvale Primary in Edenvale, Johannesburg. I am currently the HOD for Languages and I run the school library, so I spend the day with children and books! - I hope to be inspired to follow my passion for writing for children.
ReplyDeleteHi . My name is Bernadette Eloff . I work at Randfontein Primary in Randfontein. I have been a teacher for 30 years and have taught a wide variety of subjects from Grade 3 to 7 .
ReplyDeleteI started the course last year but due to studying commitments was unable to complete the course. I learnt alot . I hope to learn a lot more and to successfully complete the course and submit my completed story
The skills I learn and hope to learn are being and will be used in my lesson presentations ."
Allow me to introduce myself, I am Miss Prathna Harypersad. I am a current student at Embury Institute if Teacher Education in Durban. I am a 2nd year BED Foundation Phase student. Most of my day spent at campus is on Lectures and getting as much knowledge, courage and enthusiasm from my lecturers and fellow colleagues.
ReplyDeleteI am Sikelela Dlamini from Pro-Learning High School in Manzini, Swaziland. I teach English & Literature in English to Grades 10, 11, & 12 on a part-time basis. I created digital stories using Photoshop & other tools during an a course I audited at the University of California at Berkeley between 2001 & 2002. I haven't been able to do this since & wish to reactivate & develop the skill for the benefit of the students I teach & my own professional development in education.
ReplyDeleteI am Georgina Nandila Sitali Mubanga a lecturer at the University of Namibia in the Department of Education in Language, Humanities and Commerce. I am a teacher educator teaching BEd (honours) students who are training to be primary school teachers. I teach a Namibian language called Silozi. I spend my day looking for information on the language I teach which is scarce and also writing passages for my students in order to demonstrate how they can teach reading for pleasure, reading for comprehension and how they can set acceptable questions on the passages I write. I hope to learn more skills on how to write acceptable stories for my students so that they can also go and be innovative when they complete and I also want to write stories for primary school going children because these are not there.
ReplyDeleteI am Emily Mbhele from Tholulwazi Secondary School in Pinetown, South Africa.. I teach English to Grade 8 and 12 and Tourism Grade 10. As a language
ReplyDeletedepartment we help each other in the teaching of both Isizulu and English languages. I am responsible for the library and the Reading Program within the school.I hope that the workshop will help me develop my writing skill which will then be shared with my reading group. I do hope that they will be encouraged to write as well so that we could increase reading material for the young ones
Alemu Woldie is my name. I work for CODE-Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. .I spend my day by compiling reports,preparing templates and different formats communicating with librarians from the regions, writing articles for publication and surfing the net for my different information need. I hope to get additional skill and knowledge from the course that helps me to implement the e-book project we are just starting.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sara Mohale. I teach at Patogeng Primary in Pretoria, South Africa. When not at work I spend my day watching TV, reading the newspaper, spending time with my 10yr old son or working in the garden. I am an aspiring writer and I hope the course will equip me with more skills to continue writing stories. I am part of the ASP team and any new skill to improve my writing skill is always welcome.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Lebohang Moroe and I am a trainee at the Soweto Theatre in Johannesburg. I spent my day reading about children's theatre and theatre for youth and young people.
ReplyDeleteHello, I'm Kate Whittaker, I'm librarian and information manager currently contracting at Pearson Publishing in Cape Town where I assist with a variety of research tasks and bringing digital projects to fruition. I am passionate about well told stories and so I am interested in learning what goes into the creation of digital stories for school literacy. I am also interested in learning what teachers and story-tellers are doing and how they are using online tools to create collaborative learning using stories and how online tools and can be used to promote literacy.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Melony Nieuwenhuys . I am currently teaching Grade 4 Social Science and Afrikaans at Bryandale Primary School in Bryanston, Gauteng Province, South Africa. I am hoping to promote storytelling to my learners and to encourage them to be creative enough to see their own thoughts come alive digitally and be appreciated by other learners for their enjoyment and entertainment.
ReplyDeleteI am Zehrah Hoosen from Embury Institute for Teacher Education(EITE) in Durban. i am a full time student at EITE. I just want a good experience.
ReplyDeleteI am Estelle Goosen, Subject adviser for CAT in the Overberg Education District in Caledon, South Africa. I have been a language teacher before I became involved in computers and stories are still very much part of my life. This course merges these two worlds.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Norman Proctor. I work in Welkom for the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State Education Department. I am assist schools with setting up and maintaining libraries, encourage and support reading, and teach information skills.
ReplyDeleteMy name is James Odongo and I work for Mango Tree Educational Enterprises Limited in Lira, Uganda as a Project Manager Strengthening a Literate Society Project and at the same time a Writer consultant for early primary literacy materials. I get my work done according to my monthly work plan and I always create some allowances for other activities. I hope to equip my self with skills in creating nicer stories for children in P1-P3, and also be able to learn how to convert digital stories to video.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sive Mbolekwa I work for Axium Education in Mqanduli as an assistant literacy coordinator. We work in two schools in a literacy intervention program for grade 1s to 5s. My day is spent implementing the program. We use a lot of stories and story-related activities and games.
ReplyDeleteI hope to get to know how to go about writing a story as I am also a storyteller and an inspiring writer."
I'm Namulwana Jemeo, i work with Madrasa Early Childhood program, Kampala, Uganda. I spend my day mostly by doing office work, training teachers at the center and carrying out hands on support to pre-school teachers at their respective schools.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Katie Huston , and I manage the DG Murray Trust's Creative Learners portfolio in Cape Town. The DG Murray Trust is exploring how information and communications technologies and digital resources can be leveraged to improve learning outcomes, and believes stories and reading for pleasure are central to children's literacy development. I am interested in learning more about digital storytelling.
ReplyDelete1. My name is Shivani Sahadeo and I am teaching Grade 1's at Crawford Prep. Pretoria, South Africa.
ReplyDelete2. I am a qualified Foundation Phase teacher and have been teaching for 15 years.
To learn more about how to approach story writing techniques as there is a huge lack of interest from kids.
My Name is Thembinkosi (Themba ) Mabaso. I work at the Department of Arts and Culture in Johannesburg managing the design and promotion of National symbols. I also write books and would like to perfect my art of writing for children.
ReplyDeleteI am Eden Daniels from Princess Primary School in Edenvale, South Africa. I'd like to see more children involved. I'd like to be the winning teacher using more took sand experience with digital story telling.
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Annette Islei - I am a researcher and 'old friend' of the School of Education, Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda. We are working together on a project to improve the teaching of literacy in Primary 1, Kabarole District, Uganda. We have been working closely with schools and educationists in the locality who support in-service teachers. Teachers writing their own stories is part of the Diploma course at the University, and part of our project. It will be fantastic to be able to digitize these. So learning how to help teachers write, and developing personal computer skills are the aim. The internet hardly functions adequately at the University or Teacher's College for people to take the course. Others are restricted to internet cafes. So I am an important link person for them. I am also a member of the Uganda Multilingual Education Network (Juliet Tembe and I know each other), and Secretary for the Language in Africa SIG of BAAL (UK), so I have means of aiding dissemination. I have forwarded the email round my SIG list.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Janine Peters. I am a retired ELL specialist teacher from the Keiskamma Trust in Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. I plan to assist and work with local teachers and interested parties with the development of young learner reading materials/texts and methodologies. This falls under the directive of an education project run by the Keiskamna Trust in the Eastern Cape. The major focus will be on developing literacy skills in isiXhosa and English. This course would help to link to and use what promises to be an exciting database.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Medadi Ssentanda and I work with Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Although I work with Makerere University, I'm currently on study leave. So, I spend most of my day home, either reading or attending to family chores. From this course, I hope to acquire skills of writing children stories and secondly to learn how to tell stories to children.
ReplyDeleteI am Amanda Ntataise. I work in curriculum development, trainer capacity building and project management at Ntataise in Johannesburg. I have wanted to write children's stories to go with our mathematical development programme but despite attempts have found it difficult. It is also something I would like to share with others.
ReplyDeleteI am Dr Solomon O. Makinde of Lagos State University, in Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. I teach courses in Language and Literature Methods, Curriculum and Instruction.
ReplyDeleteI believe the course would serve as an enrichment input in language teaching and learning. I hope to benefit much from stories from other African countries.
I am a 4th year student at Embury Institute for Teacher Education in Durban, I am involved as being Vice-President to the SRC. My goal in registering for this course is to develop my skills in writing stories accessible to all learners by integrating the diversity of cultures in South Africa as well as the inclusion policy to make children aware thus promoting equality among all learners.
ReplyDeletel'm Kate Monare and I'm teaching Grade 2, Letsopa Primary, Ottosdal in the North West Province. This came at the right time as l am busy collecting relevant data to make my class interesting as l am trying to make it ICT class. So l am very excited, cant wait to start.
ReplyDeleteShort Bio: Dr. Ray Doiron is Professor Emeritus in Faculty of Education at UPEI University in Canada and will be the Project Lead for this IDRC grant. He has an international reputation in school libraries with leadership in international organizations, invitations to speak, published research and numerous workshops in several countries. He has been keynote speaker in every province in Canada, president of a national school library association and a consultant on major library initiatives. He has taught courses in early literacy, curriculum, and librarianship and was instrumental in developing a Graduate Certificate in School and Community Librarianship. His research interests include play in early childhood education, early literacy, and school/community libraries and their roles in literacy education and community development. He has traveled extensively visiting libraries in several countries and currently works in a year-long intensive training session for 50 new librarians from community libraries in rural Ethiopia. He is a “field expert” with CODE Canada and CODE-Ethiopia where he has been active in programme and research consulting, programme evaluation, and development/implementation of the current training programme for Ethiopian librarians. He has supervised preservice teachers during their six-week teaching practicum in a school in Addis Ababa and has given doctoral seminars and consulted with researchers at Addis Ababa University.
ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Ravina Harrilall. I work for the Gauteng Department of Education as the Subject Advisor for Languages at the Johannesburg North District. My job entail providing support and development to the teachers in the schools in my district with regard to curriculum completion and challenges. With this course I have hoping to be capable of writing books for children and to assist my teachers to create their own written books, and most importantly to get my teachers to involve their learners in more writing activities. I am looking so forward to the experiences of this course.
ReplyDeleteI am Sarah Collins, lead administrator at Early Inspiration in Port Elizabeth. Early Inspiration provides training for ECD practitioners working in underprivileged areas. Early Inspiration is looking at creating more of their own resources for teachers and I feel the course would add another aspect to the resources we are able to develop.
ReplyDeleteI am called Jane Driwaru,working at Stand Tall Training Centre in Kampala, Uganda.,i spend my day at stand tall by teaching in class room(mathematics and religious education),and doing some administrative work. From this course i expect to share with others skills and stories on how i can make learning interesting and enjoyable,and encourage my learners to write stories in local languages"
ReplyDeleteI am Mujabi Philip, I work with Stand Tall Training Center in Kumpala, Uganda, and I am the Head of Art and Technology department. I am 33 years old. I love computing and working on my art work. I spend most of my time working with kids in entrepreneur ventures.
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Lisa Treffry-Goatley, and I work as an editor for the African Storybook Project at Saide. I spend most days with a variety of intriguing and sometimes surprising characters who keep my imagination well exercised and engaged! I'm hoping to get a better understanding of the process of digital story creation, to share experiences with others on the course, and meet new and wonderful characters lurking in creative minds.
ReplyDeleteI am I am Grant Devlin. I am not a teacher nor an educator, but a chartered accountant working with MS group in Cape Town! I do not work in a related field (MS Group does mineral exploration and drilling in Africa), but have always had a love of children's books, writing, illustration and education. This course sounds very interesting, and a way to open a new door for me to explore my creative side. Looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI am Melissa Chetty. I am currently employed at Capitec Bank in Kwazulu-Natal. I am currently studying teaching. I have completed a Tefl course. I am pursuing a career as a teacher and I would love the opportunity to learn and gain knowledge in any way possible. I am studying Foundation Phase so I believe this course will be an excellent learning experience. I hope this course will allow me to learn how to keep children's attention and how to make story telling fun and interesting.
ReplyDeleteI am Mahlodi Mathonsi, a HOD for languages and an English educator at Lotus Gardens Primary SchooI in Tshwane, South Africa. The language of learning and teaching(LOLT) at our school is English. I spend my day by teaching learners English and I also encourage learners to read . I am also in charge of our Library which I am trying to establish it to be a fully functional library so that to instill a culture of reading to our learners. I hope to be able to create a platform for Lotus Gardens Primary learners to be young writers and be able to write about their experiences and even to be more creative.
ReplyDeleteI am Edith Kyomugasho Buhazi, a freelance teacher educator in Bushenyi, Uganda. I have formed a Community-Based Organisation (CBO) called Educare Initiative (EdI). One of its mandate is capacity building for teachers. Currently am equipping teachers of early grades (near my home schools) with reading approaches/techniques/ skills of how to read in both the local language and English. Am also trying to create a library for the schools as all of them have book stores where its impossible to locate a needed book.
ReplyDeleteI am Brendan Fortuin from READ Educational Trust in Ormonde, South Africa. I am a national trainer at READ and am primarily responsible for managing high school projects.
ReplyDeleteI hope to use my knowledge of the English language to learn how to write interesting stories that appeal to learners in the intermediate and senior phase of our schooling system."
I'm Candice Kinnear from READ Educational Trust in Gauteng. I am a Materials Developer who writes Teacher Training Courses and Resource Material for literacy teachers. I also develop materials for learners. Our organisation works predominantly with First Additional Language English teachers and learners. I hope that this course enhances my knowledge of digital literacy (which is currently limited!) and furthers my knowledge of the traditional storytelling genre.
ReplyDeleteHi , my name is Andrea Berzen. I am the director of BAOBAB Training in Johannesburg. We train/teach Early Childhood Development Teachers from the various communities in Johannesburg and surrounding areas. We teach both theoretical and practical aspects for working with young children . We encourage our teachers to tell stories to the children everyday and most importantly to tell the stories that are connected to the children's life and experiences . We also encourage the teachers to tell the stories in their 'mother tongue'.
ReplyDeleteEven though this course is directed at Grade1-3 . I still feel that it will be so worthwhile , as I will be able to share the knowledge and information with my facilitators as well as the teachers whom we teach ."
My name is Kayondo Ssimbwa from Stand Tall Training Centre, a tuition free school for the disadvantaged children in Kamopala, Uganda. I am the Principal of the school. I oversee all activities and ensure smooth, efficient and effective accomplishments. I spend some of my time in office and guiding learners in classroom activities. I hope to know about various African stories, their hidden wisdom and how to use them to cause a positive change in all aspects of life among the learners, teachers and even myself.
ReplyDeleteI am Freda Neiman, a Facilitator, Trainer, Assessor and Moderator at Baobab ECD Learning.at BAOBAB Training in Johannesburg. I am also a consultant and curriculum developer at Ububele Pre-School. I will be able to use any knowledge gained, and stories shared, in both the above environments to benefit all young children.Story telling is essential for the development of language and literacy, science and mathematics, and for communication. It also plays a very big and important role in developing EQ , helping children to learn about understanding and expressing emotions and feelings of self and others. All these factors will contribute to improved performance at school and a positive attitude towards learning.
ReplyDeleteI'm Huma a freelance English Language teacher trainer in Karachi in Pakistan..I love the interaction with teachers and students both and feel motivated by inspiring them realize their potential through trial and error. As the principal of the school DPS, besides the administrative work, I help teachers plan lessons using their creativity to its max. I allow enjoy taking students English speaking and writing classes on a weekly basis. I've been trying out various ways to get students and teachers to unleash their thinking and explore creativity in expressing themselves. I hope to learn better strategies, in order, to help my teachers and students to become better thinkers and writers.I also plan to use student/ teacher created stories as text whenever required. Also getting students/ teachers to publish their work on blogs is an area that I would definitely like to try.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Pumza Mfundisi. I work with Foundation Phase pupils from the Zithulele community in Axium's Literacy Programme in Mqanduli South Africa. I spend my days telling stories to kids or choosing stories to tell the kids. I am hoping to learn how to write stories since I love stories.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sibongiseni Mcunukelwa. I work with Foundation Phase pupils from the Zithulele community in Axium's Literacy Programme in Mqanduli South Africa. I spend my days telling stories to kids or choosing stories to tell the kids. I am hoping to learn how to write stories since i love stories.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Nandipha Tanana. I work with Foundation Phase pupils from the Zithulele community in Axium's Literacy Programme in Mqanduli South Africa. I spend my days telling stories to kids or choosing stories to tell the kids. I am hoping to learn how to write stories since I love stories.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Pumza Mfundisi. I work with Foundation Phase pupils from the Zithulele community in Axium's Literacy Programme in Mqanduli South Africa. I spend my days telling stories to kids or choosing stories to tell the kids. I am hoping to learn how to write stories since I love stories.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Thozama Phithi. I work with Foundation Phase pupils from the Zithulele community in Axium's Literacy Programme in Mqanduli South Africa. I spend my days telling stories to kids or choosing stories to tell the kids. I am hoping to learn how to write stories since I love stories.
ReplyDeleteI am Adina Feldman, a Grade two teacher with Baobab ECD training in Johannesburg, looking for ideas useful in the remedial Grade 2 classroom.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Darakhshan Talat Zaheer and I'm Ex Coordinator of Nasra Public Schools in Karacchi, Pakistan. Currently, I'm not doing any job due to personal reasons.
ReplyDeleteI hope to learn new ways of story telling through digital media .
Hi! My name is Pam Reddy and I teach at Durwest Primary School which is in Reservoir Hills, Durban. I teach English, dance and drama to Grade 7 learners. Most of them come from the Clermont township. I really enjoy what I do and look forward to learning new ways of teaching and learning.
ReplyDeleteWriting stories has always appealed to me and I look forward to putting my creative side into use through the step-by-step guidance you offer through this course. Thank you."
I am Theresa de Young. I work for the Western Cape Education Department as the Coordinator: School Library Services. My work involves the development of school libraries from scratch to the selection of school library resources that are in line with CAPS to organising of special library events and representing the province on a national level with regards to school library issues. I hope to learn the important elements of developing a digital story so that I can eventually produce a quality story that would appeal to school children.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Esther Ajiambo, I am 25 yers old. I am an English teacher at Stand Tall Training in Kira, Uganda, and also the Head of Department English subject. I love reading and writing.
ReplyDeleteI am Mary Anyiendah a teacher at Mukuli Primary School in Mbali, Kenya. Each day i teach English to young learners and story telling is part of my activities with the young learners because they enjoy stories a lot. i hope to publish my stories so tat they can benefit more learners in Kenya and across the borders of Kenya
ReplyDelete1. My name is Rinae Sikhwari, I work for a literacy organisation called PRAESA (Nal'ibali), in Polokwane, South Africa - Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa.
ReplyDelete2. My day involves spreading the word about our national reading for enjoyment campaign, called Nal'ibali. I am a cluster mentor; I monitor and work with volunteers, teachers, parents and children to drive the campaign through reading clubs where children get an opportunity to read for enjoyment, be told stories (storytelling) In either Sepedi or English
3. I would like to get more skills on how to improve my storytelling abilities and also writing my own stories particularly for different children and how to incorporate the aspect of different settings and surroundings to allow children from different areas and backgrounds to enjoy stories.
My name is Herbert MG Pepple. I'm a children story writer with Once Upon A Time Nigeria in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and would really love to join this programme to improve my skills. I publish a reading magazine for primary school children.
ReplyDeleteHello! My name is Salma, and I have recently moved to Toronto, Canada from Karachi Pakistan. I am a teacher of ESL, and in Pakistan I worked with the Access Microscholarship Program, a project of USAID run in 85 countries. I worked with underprivileged communities to improve English language skills of youth aged 14-18 years. We also engaged students in community service projects where students learned to help and serve their communities in a variety of ways.
ReplyDeleteIn Pakistan I also worked with the British Council to train teachers of English language, mostly of rural communities, to improve their English language skills and knowledge of teaching methodology. Now in Toronto I am putting together my application for Canadian Certification. I am also working with an organization where I am an examiner for IELTS speaking examinations. I am very excited to take part in this digital storytelling course as I believe storytelling is an effective and powerful way of teaching and communicating. Its a great way to keep traditions and culture alive! I am a graduate of history and philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A and I am certified as a teacher of English by the University of Cambridge.
I am Wadda Cyprian,a teacher of English language and literature at Nyondo ss in Mbale Kenya. I am also pursuing a masters in Applied linguistics at Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU). I spend my day teaching. I hope to get well acquainted with digital story telling and also built capacity in creation of stories and teaching with the mother tongue.
ReplyDeleteI am Anna Kula. I teach Literature at Marist International University College in Nairobi, Kenya. I hope that by doing this course I will sharpen my skills for writing for children and also contribute to ASP.
ReplyDeleteI am Dragamulai Wayi from Millennium College School in Koboko, Kampala, Uganda. I'd like to get skills in writing good stories. I enjoy telling stories. When I tell a lot of stories to my students they love it.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Fathima Vawda. I am studying to be a foundation phase teacher at the Embury Institute for Teaching Education in Durban. I would like to learn some interesting ideas for teaching.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Anne Wamalwa a teacher at Kilifi Junior School and Daycare Centre in Kilifi county on the Northern coast of Kenya. As a regular teacher I practice in the early years where I have a passion to see all children being literate and be able to construct their own knowledge. I hope to learn new skill of writing stories which my learners can read, and make them create an interest which will build on developing a reading culture in them. At the same time i expect to gain skills that would help me assist my learners in articulating their ideas where they can write their own stories."
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sheila Drew. I am a programme specialist for ECD at Saide. Most of my work involves supporting course designers and writers to develop quality, open programmes for teachers and teacher educators. I am also one of the South African country co-ordinators for the African Storybook Project.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Lorraine Sekgabi. I am a teacher at Mayibuye Primary School in Johannesburg and I am teaching Grade 3 learners. l am currently assisting my learners to try and make their stories online. It is very interesting as they are working on the tablets. From the course I wish I can make lot of stories and be able to compete around the world.
ReplyDeleteI am Carmen Emanuel. I train teachers at BAOBAB ECD and I teach at HItsch Lyons school in Johannesburg, and I give workshops on a variety of aspects to do with education. I hope to enhance my storytelling abilities digitally as I often create stories for the classroom.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Hamza Sheshe. I'm a Science teacher, an educator at Mhonda Teachers' College, Morogoro in Tanzania. I’m also facilitating early child teaching in the area of Science. My hope is that through the knowledge and skills which I expect to acquire from this course, my teaching and knowledge of how to teach, will be improved. Hence my pre-service teachers, especially those who specialised in early childhood education, will get the best knowledge and skills.
ReplyDelete1) I am Beatrice Murila of Kenyatta University, Niarobi, Kenya.
ReplyDelete2) I am a lecturer. So I spend my day giving lectures, conducting tutorials, meeting students to sort out their queries and marking assignments and projects.
3) I hope to learn how to write stories in my mother tongue to children who understand my mother tongue.They would understand them more easily than those that are written in English, which is their second language.
1. I am Marion Drew. Paleng Children's Centre. Tseanku village, Malea-lea, Mafeteng, Lesotho.
ReplyDelete2. We make and use stories, we are a pilot site for the African Storybook Project, we work with children in our little library using books and games and toys and other exciting things!
3. To learn more about writing.
1. My name is Eze Foluke and am a Mathematics educator in Federal College Of Education (Tech) Omoku in the Rivers state of Nigeria.
ReplyDelete2. My day starts with attending to officials mails before going to deliver lectures to students adhering to the college timetable while on Fridays, 2hours is dedicated to supervision of student project.
3. At the end of this course, I hope to gain new teaching strategy in storytelling that will make the teaching of mathematics more practical and friendly."
Hello there. Am also a maths teacher. Looking forward to learning together.
Delete1) I am Beatrice Murila of Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
ReplyDelete2) I lecture, carry out tutorials, meet students to discus issues that they do not understand and mark assignments and projects.
3) I hope to be able to write stories in my mother tongue s that the pupils can understand the stories better than they do in English
My name is Elizabeth Ralfe. I am a retired academic. I worked at Edgewood College and then in the Faculty of Education at UKZN until my retirement. Since my retirement I have been working in a number of areas. I am a language consultant with the Toyota Teach Primary School Project and my job is to assist language teachers in the project schools. I am also the director of the KZN Writing Project and have been running annual Winter Writing Institutes for teachers. In addition, I was for many year the Chairperson of the KZN branch of the Reading Association of SA. I am hoping to encourage writing among the teachers I work with and to be able to share with them the huge potential of digital story writing.
ReplyDelete1.My name is Mavis Dikeledi Dijoe.
ReplyDelete2. Senior Education Specialist at Moretele Area Office, Pretoria
3. Subject advisor, Monitor, Trainer in Home languages (Setswana ), also an Author for Shuter and Shoot and Vivlia respectively.
4. Hoping to enlarge my scope and explore my potential in stories.
My name is Elsa Mouton. I'm a senior educational specialist in the Foundation Phase in the Dept of Education North West Provincial Curriculum, Lichtenburg.
ReplyDeleteIt means that I assist and develop teachers on a daily basis. My main focus is on the implementation of the curriculum for English First Additional Language. The shortage of texts/stories in English on the correct level and within our learners frame of reference, is a challenge. I hope this course will help me to supply our teachers with quality stories and text for Shared Reading that is not only supporting the themes selected but also catching stories that will help to develop a love for reading and learning.
My name is Chantelle Rose from the Free State Department of Education based in QwaQwa.I maintain school libraries, train teachers on library management and information skills, and promote reading. A creative outlet from bureaucracy. Another way to promote reading, especially recreational reading, as well as a method I can use to assist teachers in facilitating creative writing amongst their learners.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Cordelia (Randi) Foli. I work as Subject Adviser and researcher for the Department of Education in Port Elizabeth. I spend my work day planning research and monitoring curriculum implementation. my current interest is searching literacy in the Foundation Phase.i love working with teachers and advise on classroom practice.
ReplyDeletefrom the course I wish to revive the dormant writing potential that I think i have."
My name is Morithi Maibelo aka "Brian". I'm working at Mshuluzane Mayisela Primary School in Bronkhorstspruit. I'm mostly spend my day teaching learners how to read and write better. I'm hoping to learn how to write stories for school learners and put them online for easy reading.
ReplyDeleteI am Diana Paterson Speech and Drama teacher in Ballito. As I have recently moved I have closed my studio for extra mural drama which I ran for many years. I am not sure what the future holds but I do volunteer reading with the Shine centre and plan to do the same at a school for orphans nearby. I have always wanted to write children's stories and feel sure I could pass on my newly acquired skills in some way in the future
ReplyDeleteI am Mbongeni Nzimande from Port Shepstone, and I am a writer who wants to gain knowledge regarding the writing of children's stories.
ReplyDeleteI am Khothatso Ranoosi at Paleng, Tseanku Malealea Mafeteng in Lesotho. I want to learn about story telling on the computer.We work in our library with children. We work with stories and games.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Charles Sarpong, from the University of Education, Winneba, UEW, in Kumasi Ghana. I spend my day by searching through stories and doing research about the generational periods apart from my school assignments. I am hoping to be a good educator in nearest future, and to become one of the greatest people in information and communication technology in this world.
ReplyDeleteI am Mavis Smallberg, a heritage practitioner and a creative writing facilitator, currently working on a book project at the District Six Museum, Cape Town. The objective is to share stories about the history and culture of District Six through the lens of food. My job is to identify and categorise relevant themes in existing oral history research, identify research gaps and assist in preliminary editing. I'm also a poet and a former English teacher with a deep interest in history and heritage. Hence i am keen to contribute towards this project to provide much needed new reading material that is relevant and free. I hope to sharpen my skills in writing for little ones and to learn skills in telling stories in this digital age.
ReplyDeleteI am Napagi Augustine from GFLRC, (Gayaza Family Learning Resource Centre) in
ReplyDeleteKasangati, Uganda. Training librarians, farmers and children story read aloud Early literacy development projects
I am Lise Abrahams from Expert English in Cape Town. I help English students to gain the confidence and skills they need to master my favourite subject. My aim is for them not only feel empowered in the use of langauge but also utilise the power that language can wield. I hope that this course will provide me with a platform to help my students unlock and share their creativity.
ReplyDelete1. I'm Aidah Namukose, and I'm homeschooled in Jinja, Uganda.
ReplyDelete2. I work on a schedule that includes all my subjects and a few extra curricular activities.
3. I hope to greatly improve my writing skills and write a good story by the end of this course.
I am Mari van der Merwe from the KZN Provincial Manager and Lead Staff Member for SC SA on ECD (Save the Children) in Durban. I provide strategic guidance for Save the Children's work in South Africa in the area of Early Childhood Development. The main focus of our work is to capacitate ECD practioners.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of suitable 'African' stories to use when working with the young child has been identified."
I am Thamie Tenza working at Maluti District Office in Matatiele as a DCES. I spend my days coordinating MST Programmes, Library services in schools as well as coordinating the use of ICTs in schools. I hope to be assisted with the art of writing stories and even other genres as I wish to start writing.
ReplyDeleteI am Rejoyce Batyi. I work for the Department of Basic Education in Grahamstown District Office, as a Senior Education Specialist for E-learning. I spend most of my days in this district schools running workshops for teachers on how to integrate ICT into teaching and learning. I hope to get further techniques on how to help teachers integrate ICT into teaching and learning, storytelling as one of them and by using different devices.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Willy Rangira, a Senior Program Manager at CODE, a Canadian international charity working to promote reading and writing for school-aged children in many parts of the world. I have been associated with the ASP project from early on, as an interested observer and continue to believe in the project. I work with Ghanian, Malian, Ethiopian and Liberian local organisations that can and should benefit the ASP project. With these partners, teachers are taught how to teaching reading, librarians are guided in providing more reading promotion activities through community libraries and reading corners; and local authors and publishers are supported to improve on their skills. Taking this course will enhance my understanding of the making of great stories and how to use them in teaching of reading and for leasure. As a father of two young children, I want to make a long-term dream a reality: read my owns stories to these kids, including stories in Kinyarwanda.
ReplyDelete1 My name is Mr Abudulai Jakalia.
ReplyDelete2. I teach on part-time at the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana
3. I am either teaching or vetting project works
4. Learn to put a few stories on line as example to my students and teachers
I am Brenda Musoke Musasizi, I work as the National Coordinator for the Uganda Community Libraries Association in Kampala, Uganda. I hope to understand how digital storytelling can be adopted within our network of libraries, share experiences for libraries currently involved with the project.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Hameeda Mbadu, I am a practitioner at an ECD Centre in Boksburg
ReplyDeleteOn a normal day I facilitate active learning and develop Grade R children holistically. So story telling is one of the activities for the day. I hope I could master the art of story telling. Often we tend to make up our own stories which would not have a good ending nor morals. So this would be a vey valuable exercise.
My name is Gladys Ryan. I'm self-employed at Communicating Simply working in the development sector. I support people with their writing or write on behalf of organisations - their histories, case studies, stories of impact, etc. I would love to learn more about writing for children and am strongly committed to developing stories which highlight social issues in a friendly, gentle manner suitable for children. i would be keen to learn how to do so.
ReplyDeleteI am Bukelwa Yuze a qualified educator who works with foundation phase teachers and learners at Nelson Mandela Institute for education and rural development
ReplyDeletein East London. .I develop activities for learners in Isixhosa for grade R-3. using storybooks. I read and tell stories to learners at school and to teachers during their workshops. I'm hoping to learn more skills to be a good story teller for children and adults."
I am Emmanuel Boadu Ayeboafo from Ghana, an Ashanti who speaks and writes both English and Twi fluently. I am 25 years and a student at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. My area of study is early childhood education. I spend my free time by making research on the internet and reading articles. I am hoping to improve my story writing skills after this course.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Mercy Naa Annor from Holy Family Roman School in Accra, Ghana.
ReplyDeleteI always spend my days in the classroom teaching l want to use it to write stories for Africa children.
I am Alhassan Adiza from the NJA collage of Education,GES in Wa -Accra. I spend my time training basic school teachers.
ReplyDeleteI am Sabina Ofeibea Baidoo from the Uuniversity of Education, Winneba,Ghana. . I was able to read the instructions and followed it. I hope that at the end of this course I would be able to write African stories for all manner of students from all levels.thank you. And also to be able to write stories for students from other countries. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Shelanna Sturgess from Durban Girls High School. I am an art educator who has just discovered arts-based education research. Thus I am currently working on an MTech research project that looks at the effect of culture on visual arts education. Part of my research is about how introducing indigenous knowledge systems into visual arts education enhances learners outputs. Thus I am looking forward to the course as I am currently writing children's stories on indigenous knowledge systems that could be used as textbooks. I am also excited about learning about digital publishing as the second part of my research covers how technology crosses geographical divides by providing computer-supported collaborative platforms.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Afrifa - Yamoah Daniel. l am a graduate teacher at Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School in Kumasi, Ghana. spend my day teaching my students and reading storybooks. l must say l also spend much of my time with my family as l love being with them.
ReplyDeleteI am Diana. Terkpeh. Simms from the Senior High School in Kumasi /Ashanti in Ghana. I spend my day reading teaching students since I am a teacher. My goal is tTo acquire more. knowledge. and to impact it to my students reading
ReplyDelete1) My name is Greig Krull and I work for Saide in Johannesburg, South Africa
ReplyDelete2) I am an Educational Technology Specialist and part of the team behind African Storybook
3) I am here just to follow along with the course and provide any support if needed.
1) I am Francisca Antwiwa-Gyasi, Gyahadze M/A JHS in Winneba, Ghana.
ReplyDelete2)Teaching, counselling
3) I hope to help children learn about Africa and other parts of the world."
Khadijah Jakalia is my name. A student at the Mountcrest University College in Accra Ghana studying law. I do a lot of reading and aside my usual course materials I love children's books. I spend my free time reading children's story books. I have tried writing a few children's stories, I hope this course equips me with the skills to transform my passion of writing books for children into a reality. And add a touch of modern technology as well.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Sara Saunders. I am intern with World Vision Uganda where I support their Community Literacy Project in Lango region with documentation and capacity-building in local materials creation, including local language children's books. I don't speak the local language (Leblango) myself, but I am working towards building the capacity of local teachers and project leaders to create books in their own language. I hope this course will equip me to train them to utilize and contribute to African Storybook Project when we reach the point where they will also have access to the computers and internet connection needed.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Salome Ottani from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
ReplyDeleteI want to achieve more storytelling skills, to learn from others and see how other countries present their stories to young children. I'd like to learn about new stories and figure out the possibility of using the net to disseminate ideas on an integrated approach to storytelling.
My name is Bajabulile Xulu from Lihlithemba Technical High School in Ndwedwe, Verulam, South Africa. I am hoping to acquire the skills and expertise I need to have for story writing and telling. I o be hope to be well equipped for my creativity
ReplyDeleteMy name is Tania Langeveldt and I head up an entry-level company called Thata Ka Kitso (which in Setswana means "Strong in Knowledge"). I currently run three English intervention and Teacher Training projects in three schools in the North West. My aim is to assist the teachers to have a fresh look at the curriculum content and to design lesson plans that will integrate all the learning areas, with the focus on the concept of "learn through play". I am passionate about storytelling, puppetry and role-playing and want to create my own stories that will fit it with the themes we teach.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Samuel Opoku Abora, I am a master of philosophy student of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. I am in the second year now but I have done children's literature as a course at the first year. I have started writing children's story and i hope to get a lot of experience from this programme. I am a basic education student starting my teases by the end of July.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Juliana Babulweri-Ire and l teach at the Tamale Polytechnic in Ghana. My day begins at 7:00am and end at 2:00pm in the classroom where I teach English Language to intermediate students. I have additional responsibility as a housemistress and I visit the students in their house three times in a week to interact with them and learn at first hand their concerns and any other issues bothering them and then find solutions to these concerns and issues. I hope to learn more about early childhood education since that has always been an area of interest to me.I have always helped young children after school, this course will better equip me with the needed knowledge and skills.
ReplyDeleteI am William Wagaba. I am a lecturer at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Everyday I talk and listen to people, read, write and supervise work, attend meetings, engage in conversations and drink lots of water. I look forward to learning from and sharing knowledge with others about digital stories.
ReplyDeleteHello William. My name is Nicole and I live in Vancouver, Canada. I'm one of the founders of Stand Tall Training Centre in Kampala and we are planning to introduce the African Storybook Project at our school.
DeleteI'm Kpan Prosper. I live in Wa and teach ICT at Dan-Ibu International School in Wa, Ghana. I report to school at 7:00 HUNt and close from school at 16:00. I am a creative writer, and I started writing at a tender age of 14 and I have written fourteen books so far-yet to publish most of them. I hope to learn new ideas from this course that will actualize my dream of becoming the greatest African writer.
ReplyDeleteI am Bariya Ibrahim, an early childhood educator, and a student of the University of Education at Winneba in Accra, Ghana.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Rebecca Maame Kyeremaa Riches. I am a student of the University of Education in Winneba, Ghana and an early childhood educator. I will like to gain experience in children' literature from this course
ReplyDeleteHope we will know each other just step by step as we go through the course. Otherwise , it is difficult to get and know each and everyone at this point.I still appreciate the mix. Alemu from Ethiopia
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful people to be with in class. It is never late to acquire new knowledge and skills to use in life!
ReplyDeletewondwerful peole to be with in class
ReplyDeleteI am Linda Bradfield from St Mary's, Waverley, Johannesburg. I am the ICT co-ordinator and would love to encourage and assisit all our foundation phase teachers to take part in this project.
ReplyDeleteHi Prof, looking forward to working and learning together.
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