essential english homestay
Country of activity:
United Kingdom
Category:
Education
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
POTENTIAL TO INCREASE JOB PROSPECTS BY IMPROVING THE USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Target groups:
PEOPLE FROM 13YEARS IN FULL OR PART/TIME EDUCATION
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY STUDENTS/PEOPLE REQUIRING AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES
Summary:
MY OBJECTIVE IS TO TEACH STUDENTS ENGLISH ON A ONE TO ONE BASIS IN MY HOME SO THAT THE STUDENT IS TOTALLY IMMERSED INTO THE CULTURE AND LANGUAGEWHILST LIVING IN A RELAXED FAMILY ATMOSPHERE..THE HOMESTAY INCLUDES EXCURSIONS TO LOCAL PLACES OF INTEREST AS WELL AS LONDON..I ALSO ORGANISE CULTURAL VISITS FOR STUDENTS OR OTHER VISITORS WHILST ARRANGING FULL BOARD ACCOMMODATION WITH LOCAL HOST FAMILIES..THESE GROUPS USUALLY COME IN THEIR OWN COACH WITH THEIR OWN GROUP LEADERS...FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE VISIT WWW.ESSENTIALENGLISHHOMESTAY.CO.UK
Competition year:
2002
Baia Mare -the leaden sky city
Country of activity:
Romania
Web site:
Category:
Education
Vision, objectives and goals:
Our environment needs protection from polluting factors.It's in our hands to avoid pollution.Water ,Air,earth all need to be safe and sound in order to keep our children's future intact.
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
I don't know if the project increases the quality of life but I am sure that the ideas that the project provides wiil help people to do something to stop pollution and maybe then with a properly built environment people wiil make a better life.
Target groups:
Yes,against the polluters
Summary:
Any citizen of our city is thinking how to prevent pollution.Our proposal is quite simple.We don't say that is easy,but can we try?Sure.All that we must do is to reach beneath the outside of the matter,and to seek the reasons and the effects.Find out the sourse of the pollution and erase it from the start.I won't tell you more now,you'll have to read the project to find out.
Competition year:
2002
Global Classmates
Country of activity:
United States
Web site:
Category:
Education
Vision, objectives and goals:
Global Classmates creates cross-cultural and contextual learning experiences for youth around the world. Global Classmates is about utilizing opportunities that new information technologies provide to build bridges between cultures, develop new curricula for the education of global citizens, and create new ways of learning and teaching that can effectively serve more of the world's children. This program is coordinated by Digital Partners (a Seattle-based non-profit organization utilizing the digital economy to serve the world's poor), World Affairs Council, and the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs. The three pilot school partnerships have informed a refinement of the initiative for wider deployment in Asia and launching in Latin America and Africa to serve economically challenged schools. For the next phase we already have established partnerships in Pakistan (an Afghani refugee school), Swaziland (a vocational school for rural girls), Chile (a performing arts school), Mexico (a rural school in the state of Jalisco), and Nigeria (a training center for talented poor youth). The program partners with local institutes and nonprofit organizations to provide the technology, facilities, assistance and training for participating schools that are economically disadvantaged.
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
Global Classmates is making technology relevant to new users. It does so to facilitate cross-cultural interaction and provide educational opportunities to poor students around the world. It is utilizing the available technologies to empower a new generation of educators and learners. It provides a sustainable collaboration platform for organizations and individuals to utilize digital knowledge to directly benefit the world's children and, thereby, the world's future.
Students participating in Global Classmates are using collaborative tools, such as SharePoint, to enhance their collaborative learning experience and become better-informed global citizens. In addition, participating teachers are able to enhance their teaching materials and learn to collaborate with other teachers around the world, empowering teachers with better tools to train students to become global citizens.
This empowerment is facilitated by:
1) Employing existing tools and technologies for collaboration.
2) IT training of students and teachers to utilize resources to promote global citizenship.
3) Mobilizing local resources to serve economically disadvantaged schools and open new windows of opportunity for them.
4) Bridging the Digital Divide by identifying, selecting and mentoring schools to enable them to harness their new resources.
Target groups:
Global Classmates addresses students throughout the world
Among Global Classmates' targeted groups are schools that are economically disadvantaged
Summary:
Global Classmates is a collaborative learning program to promote global citizenship among youth across borders and cultures. The program's activities are implemented through an integration of a password-protected "collaboratory" for each of the partner schools into the Global Classmates website. These collaboratories allow teachers and students to interact, share, and exchange ideas within a password-protected online space. The pilot year of the project was designed to explore the use of digital pictures and video recordings, e-mail, chat rooms, discussion lists, electronic document libraries, voice and web cam collaboration, as well as more traditional video conferencing technologies, to facilitate classroom-to-classroom interactions. A total of six (6) schools—located in the United States, India, and Senegal—participated in the pilot phase of Global Classmates. Paired into three (3) groups, these schools worked through our online collaboratories to both develop and implement a collaborative learning experience. Partnerships for the next phase of the project have already been identified, including schools from Pakistan, Swaziland, Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Nigeria. Global Classmates provides a sustainable collaboration platform for organizations and individuals to utilize the digital technologies to directly benefit the world’s children and, thereby, the world’s future.
Competition year:
2002
Hello Kids
Country of activity:
United Arab Emirates
Category:
Education
Vision, objectives and goals:
We, as project developers, do believe in the idea of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,Crown Prince of Dubai and the Minister of Defence, to convert Dubai into an electronic city, especially in education. Education for elementary schools has not been moved to be online. Moreover, education web sites for younger children are limited. Therefore, we thought as UAE local women to start and build our project upon this idea.We would like to see every child especially in our country to be able to navigate the Internet and study online. We have just started with a simple idea which can be improved in the future. We hope the idea of this project will be expanded and used in our schools. We believe that our project is different from other students’ projects, because it is simple and doesn’t have much text. Its language is very straightforward because it is for younger children. Simply, instead of text we used images and sound.
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
We believe if childern were enducated and taught to study online , we believe with this precudure children would break their fear from using the Internet in particular and the computer in general. Also, we think the English language is the first language in communication between different nations. Therefore, if children start to learn English from their first years they will become very fluent when they grow up, and so they will face no difficulties in communicating with other people. We believe communciation is very essential especially in business. So, when our children increase their ability to communicate with others when they grow up, they will be able to make better business and subsequently, they help in developing our country's economy.
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Target groups:
our project is mainly directed for children undre 9 years old who just can start to learn English
Summary:
We are four Software Engineering students who developed this project. It is a combination of HTML, ASP, and Flash. It serves two sides; the administrator and the user. The administrator is responsible for updating Oracle Database tables, and managing the website settings such as the font type and foreground for some ASP pages. There are 20 web pages available for the user to navigate. On the other hand, the administrator will have 13 pages to work on. The project consists of four main subjects: Math, English, Science, and Games. Each subject gives the child an opportunity to learn and have fun at the same time. Images and sound support the exercises. Also, the site produces some tips for parents on how to improve their children’s learning skills. Moreover, it provides membership for children who join the kids club. Finally, users can have an overview about the site and its developers, besides giving us as web developers their ideas, opinions and comments about the site when they contact us.
Competition year:
2002
'Net-Shema'
Country of activity:
Israel
Category:
Education
Vision, objectives and goals:
The hearing impaired community’s main needs are communication and access to information.
Most of the students participating in the site are integrated in regular schools .They feel isolated and lonely in their situation. They can not find ‘a sympathetic ear’ talking to their parents who also need support in the growth of their children. Teenagers have many questions about their self-identity :In which society do I belong ? How to tell my boy friend about my deaf parents? Does the cochlear implant surgery really help? …
In ‘Net-Shema’ they can talk freely about everything with other teenagers and adults who went through similar experiences .They can get consultation from a psychologist and a social worker who is also deaf. For them and their family she is a model of success:‘one day my child could graduate University… sometimes this is a far dream…
The younger students need to learn and practice the language skills every day. The interactive and visual texts in ‘Net-Shema’, encourage them to use written and afterwards spoken language. The students publish their stories and get response from the staff and other students-and then starts a dialog on a subject that is relevant and close to the students’s world.
The site is a bridge to information. The web is flooded with information but it might be too much for our children. Therefore we need to mediate the information.
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
I believe that the most important thing that happened to our community is the feeling that ‘you are not alone’; you are a part of a group that accepts you as you are.
The site opened an opportunity to share their feeling and difficulties .people write every day and get a response immediately.
By the time, we saw an improvement in the social position of our students in the classes where they are integrated .
Children who participate in discussions and language activities Improved their wtitten and spoken language.
Thanks to ‘A window to tommorow’s world’ we gave more than 100 students free connection to the internet.
In the last few monthes we could give some students also free new computers and printers home according to the ‘A window to tommorow’s world’ plan.
Target groups:
‘Net
Shema’ adresses:
1
Hearing impaired students from 2ed class up to junior high school
2
Family members
3
Teachers and staff
4
Specialist such as: otorhinolaryngologists, speech therapists,
psychologists and social workers
For the first 2
Summary:
For the last three years Net-Shema created a non-territorial community of hearing-impaired people,their family and the staff of their school, in order to enable them to become better integrated and more functional in society. Net-Shema expanded the support system of the hearing-impaired student beyond the regular support meetings with the teacher supporting the hearing-impaired,(usually one to two weekly hours per week).
The students who took part in the site’s activities expanded their horizons and enriched their personal world: they have experienced creative writing activities, met new friends from all over the country and chose to take part in dialogues about their special subjects in the forums.
A special psichologist for hearing impaired teenagers, Dr. Erez Miller, and a social worker, Hadas Sherm, are responsible on publishing twice a month an article about the issues that are discussed in the forum run by them: teenagers, families and staff use the e-mail and the forum to raise problems: now we have important conversations that leading specialists in this area are involved. We see it as an important achievement for our community because especially in the northern region we did not have access to specialists .
Dr. Luntz is leading an information center about the cochlear implant –a surgery that can help some people hear.
This year we started working with the Arab speaking staff and students. We created a group of leading teachers that took a part in a course at Oranim collage .
Competition year:
2002
Vision malgomaj
Country of activity:
Sweden
Category:
Education
Competition year:
2002
Privaterra
Country of activity:
United States
Web site:
Category:
Education
Vision, objectives and goals:
Educating human rights workers in the tools of privacy and security technology. Privaterra will teach human rights workers how to implement and use privacy and security software and hardware, including encryption software, firewalls and related technology. We explain the tools in simple low tech language to ensure the tools can easily be understood and will be used.
We inform human rights workers about the necessity to protect the privacy and security of data and communications for themselves and their clients. All too many people have a false sense of the privacy of their communications so it is important to explain how and where data and communications can be vulnerable. It is also necessary to explain what can happen if such information gets into the wrong hands, which can be a matter of life and death for human rights workers and the people they serve.
We provide the tools and opportunity so that human rights workers in related organizations can communicate securely with each other.
Target groups:
Human Rights NGOs are the main target
However, we teach these groups both how to use privacy technology and how to teach others the same skills
This way, the human rights workers are able to pass on the skills and knowledge to those they are trying to p
Summary:
Human rights workers worldwide often put their lives at risk in their daily activities. The individuals these human rights workers wish to help are often in danger from malevolent forces because of their activities, identities and ideas. Ensuring the communications and collected information of human rights workers and the individuals they serve remains private is often a matter of life and death.
Advances in technology have made it easier for human rights workers to compile information and bring their issues forward. However, these advances have also made it easier to spy on these human rights workers, cracking into their communications networks and stealing access to their private information. While it is impossible to completely eradicate the possibility of such activities, encryption technology and other security measures can considerably diminish the likelihood that human rights workers’ private communications and other materials will be accessed by unauthorized individuals.
Privaterra works to educate human rights workers about privacy and security technology, and to help them implement and use it in their daily operations.
Competition year:
2002
Baltic Business College
Country of activity:
Sweden
Category:
Education
Competition year:
2002
PROGETTO RHODA 'numeri con qualità'
Country of activity:
Italy
Web site:
Category:
Education
Vision, objectives and goals:
Il progetto si propone di creare materiale utilizzabile nella didattica della matematica nella scuola elementare: softwrare interattivo, lezioni, schede.
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
Il progetto si propone di costruire i concetti matematici nei bambini partendo dal loro mondo enciclopedico. I concetti matematci vengono costruiti partendo da concetti noti della vita quotidiana. Inoltre le attività matematiche vengono proposte come obiettivi da attività da svolgere nel mondo reale, dove la capacità di individuare algoritmi diventa una strada per risolvere problemi legati ad un obiettivo di un personaggio reale o immaginario.
Target groups:
Il sito è rivolto agli insegnanti di scuola elementare, ai genitori e ai bambini
Summary:
Il sito contiene software utilizzabile nella didattica in due forme: come presentazione di argomenti e costruzione di concetti, come esercitazione e/o verifica individuale.
I software sono scaricabili o utilizzabili direttamente in rete, sono utilizzabili anche sui computer obsoleti, quelli che vengono regalati alle scuole.
Competition year:
2002
Nepal ICT Project
Country of activity:
Nepal
Web site:
Category:
Education
Operational areas:
Rural
Project type:
Online community
Other project type:
Online community
Vision, objectives and goals:
<span class="bluebodytext">The vision of COPPADES is to contribute positively to the creation of an equitable society in the grassroots as well as to the national level that helps to the realization of social justice.</span><br /><br /><span class="bluebodytext">The mission of COPPADES is to promote organizational activities among women, the poorest and the discriminated grous by building up awarness among them and empowering them through economic self dependence </span>
How ICT contributes to the organisational objectives:
The project has tangible contribution in enabling the rural and poor students to compete with the ones that are able to study in urban and well equipped schools. Without this project thousands of rural students would not have been able to learn computer skills and understand how the Internet can open a wide vista of opportunities. The Inteernet connectivity has also been beneficial for the rural community people to connect with their relatives that have gone to foreign countries for employment and also access information on agriculture, health and legal matters.
Target groups:
Children
Youth
Women
Men
Empowerment of target groups:
Access to computer and ICT technologies has many advantages. The students that are able to use computer and the Internet are able to compete in the job market rural or urban after they graduate from their schools. The girls that are able to use such technologies have immediately been able to break the traditional barriers imposed on them by the prevailing 'gender discrimination' and assert their rights and freedom. The community people that have been able to learn computers and use the Internet through the school facilites have been able to access important information on agriculture, domestic and foreign jobs, health and others. All these activities have contributed to the achievement of goal of empowering the rural people in Nepal.
User needs:
The widespread use of the computers and the Internet have changed the way things work in the government, business and other sectors of development. People have seen that they are deprived of vital resources that some people - rich and urban - have started to take for granted. They have realized that there is a gap between those who have access and those that do not with regards to knowledge, opportunity and access. People want to see these facilities in their school through which the impact can be widened. There are also women owned community based organizations (CBOs) such as the cooperatives and user groups that have used the computers and the ICT resources. We work with people that come and contact us with these needs.
Summary:
We provide technical training on computers - hardware and software - ICTs and on the use of ICTs in various sectors of development. We provide computer equipment and other equipment such as the Internet modems, connectivity, Worldspace satellite multimedia device, coordination with solar PV panel providers for places where people do not have grid connected electricity and so on. The use of computers has greatly enhanced the capacity of the rural schools to equip their students with better education, the teachers to increase their capacity to teach students more effectively, women and poorest owned cooperative societies to improve their management capacity more effectively and the rural communities to have access to information and knowledge on health, education, human rights and the current national and international debates political or others. The challenges of HIV AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis have been discussed more effictively in the communities.
Competition year:
2002