Teachers Talking (TT) Programme
Pamela McLean email Pam54321@googlemail.com
Links to Internet activity and photos
TeachersTalking yahoo group
First members joined on October 14th 2004, to help with the preparation of the first Teachers Talking (TT) course. Subsequently this group was used on the first TT courses to give participants their initial experience of being part of an online community. Its use has changed now. It is used more to give the participants some initial practice of using an online group before joining the Learning From Each Other group.
Teachers Talking wiki Created in 2004 by Ross Gardler and other members of the Teacher Talking yahoo group as an online "resource cupboard" in preparation for the first Teachers Talking course.
Teachers Talking 2004 This wiki page includes a photo sent to the support group during the TT course in 2004. It shows the course participants and school children. The course participants were teaching the children some of what they had learned.
WorkNets chat room This is where I now take TT participants for their first experience of being part of an online community. It is the chatroom of Minciu Sodas (Lithuanian for "Orchard of Thoughts") directed by Andrius Kulikauskas.
London University link-up photosA high-tech high spot of a TT course. Tim Neumann of London University arranged a three-way audiographic conference linking TT in Fantusam with London University and AHEAD (Action for Health Education and Development) - an amazing experience - especially as some participants had only seen their first computer a couple of days earlier. There was much animated discussion when we had to mark Fantsuam accurately on our screen so that Tim would know where we were. He showed us teh features fo audiographic conferencing. There was a video link too, so we showed him some Fantsuam things and we saw where he was. This experience was excellent and gave us confidence to do further vidoeo conferencing.
Low-Tech TT classroom photos We have to be down-to earth and low tech as well. In the mornings the TT training was under the mango tree at the Fantsuam Foundation Fish Farm compound
LearningFromEachOther This the other yahoo group that I encourage TT participants to join. It is the group that I lead within Minciu Sodas.
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) TT course photosTT in Kenya, August 2007, at Holy Rosary Secretarial College, Tala, Kangundo district, thanks to COL. The TT Kenya group have made good regular use of the
WorkNets chat room since I came home to the UK, so we have continued to work together.
TT Kenya 2007 Course Contents
The course contents used for TT Kenya can be seen online at
Cawdnet Campus, which is where we are experimenting with Moodle. We are
finding Moodle very valuable for collaborative working, but none of our collaborative work-in-progress is visible to guests.
TT 3rd Anniversary photos:
Participants from the first TT course joined participants for the 2007 course to celebrate the third anniversary of TT. During the celebrations I was able to demonstrate an on-line discussion in the Minciu Soda WorkNets chatroom, which the participants contributed to with enthusiasm. I have e-met some of them there again since coming home, and they have had some informal course follow-up and got to know more Minciu Sodas people.