Taking it global

Taking it global!

I recently attended a session where Suzie Vesper spoke about Taking it global, a social network for social good which was set up by two Canadian teenagers.

By youth for youth.

You can view Suzie’s PowerPoint

Tig Presentation

View more presentations from Suzie Vesper.

Suzie is working with Wellington loop schools to promote using the Taking it global website as way of getting school students to begin working collaboratively with school students in other parts of the world. This link takes you to Suzie’s wikispace on the Taking it global project.


Some of the more useful aspects of Taking it Global are:

• The thematic classrooms and learning recourses available. Thematic classrooms are available on: Tobacco Control, HIV/AIDS, Ayiti: The Cost of Life, The Orange Revolution (human rights) and Grub (Youth perspectives on food choices and food systems but it is not yet working :-( ).
• The games, each thematic classroom has a game aspect.
• A way of finding groups to work with on online collaboratively projects.
  
  

Adult literacy and numeracy in the UK

How e-learning is changing the delivery of adult literacy and numeracy in the UK.

This was a presentation at the Day in the life of a digital resource conference, 19th March 2009.
The presenter Jenny Hunt: an e-learning strategist who has worked for the University for Industry and the BBC.
Jenny specialises in literacy and numeracy for adults, with a focus on e-learning. She has been involved in national programmes developing e-learning training for providers of education. Literacy and numeracy training is provided free for adults (anyone over 16yrs).

Interesting example of eLearning in action!

Jenny demonstrated several of the learning programmes developed in the raising adult literacy and numeracy initiative. Here are some examples of those:

• learndirect courses
• BBC Skillswise
• Raw

What are the advantages in using eLearning?

• It offers a flexible approach to learning, particularly for adults [ anytime, anywhere learning]
• It helps to remove the stigma attached to learning English literacy ] and Maths [ numeracy ] as adults
• It caters for different learning styles and helps those for whom traditional ways of learning didn’t work
• Learning can be tackled in ‘bite sized ‘ pieces
• Peer support is available through community forums
• As well as gaining literacy and numeracy skills, learners are learning ICT skills