Missed Opportunity

My efforts to connect Kerala schools to collaborate, contribute and learn from my PLN personal learning network, a group of proactive teachers from across the world has not been successful, despite continual efforts.

I felt sad as I read Mrs. Morgan's Blog. Her lucky second graders meet and learn from Astronauts! Even our college grads are denied such opportunities, due to apathy and change resistance here in Kerala.

Weeks ago, Sherman, a teacher deeply in love with Mathematics, had sent me an invitation.

I talked with many a teacher and asked her to connect her school with Sherman. Unfortunately, they lost a great opportunity. I shall keep trying to help Kerala.

Sherman is on a Skypathon; he wants to teach a hundred different schools this year, connecting with them on Skype. His students had an interaction with my school last week.

Hopefully, I will be able to present my proactive teachers, a handful of  young school boys and girls at Malaysia. Radiant has invited us. I hope we are up to her challenge.

Veronica Woo, a.k.a. Radiant invited me when I told her about Anne Mirtschin's presentation, with me as co-facilitator, to teachers and students of Kerala, at the inauguration of Nanma ICT centre, which the Chief Minister of Kerala inaugurated on 11 February 2012.

The Frugal Teacher: Skyping with an Astronaut!

How Sherman helped Indian Space Science Project

The Frugal Teacher: Skyping with an Astronaut!

The Frugal Teacher: Skyping with an Astronaut!

Children: The Global Gladiators

My friend Armando, a member of my PLN, Hello Little World Skypers, has started a project.

He has embarked on a global language adventure. His VoiceThread project envisage translation of Khalil Gibran's poem on children, to be read in all languages by all nationalities of the world!!




Challenged, I have volunteered to make the mark of God's Own Country, on this embedded VoiceThread.

I have a great friend, a Malayalam poet and blogger, Jos Antony. I am getting the poem translated into Malayalam by Jos Antony. The poem will be recited by Elizabeth Johny or Manju Jojo, both members of Hello Little World Skypers.

I have invited my friend in Egpt too. Mariam El Agamy may help in translating it to Arabic and have one of her students recite the peom at VoiceThread. WOW! The accordance of technology!!

Wiki Ambassadors Galore

Elizabeth Tresa Thoppil

Versatile Elizabeth played and sang along the prayer blogger Jos Antony had written just for the WikiEducator Awareness campaign. Residence Association was very supportive. They helped train Teresa and her team to come online on Skype and sang the prayer song. Wiki Ambassadors, members of Pnakkappalam Balajanasakhyam Unit, has started a trend in Kerala. They pioneered a prayer song in camera for the first time in Kerala.

Sajmi

Wiki eLearning for Content Pre-Training Workshop at Trichur was attended by both print and visual media. Eager learners thronged the hall.

Sajmi, Wiki Ambassador, spoke of the need of the hour: wiki way of living, ways of changing digital divide into digital dividends.

She has take it as her life mission. She promised to help anyone in the audience in any which way she can to help the audience master Wiki Editing Skills. She is an energetic collaborator and a self starter. 

Ashwin

Ashwin started his Wiki presentation highlighting the need to adopt technology to democratize education. An active member of Hello Little World Skypers, he had received an award for his Connecting Classrooms project, collaborating with Mike McGrother's global peace project.

He also spoke of his plan of action at Global Classroom 2011-12 project, having met Michael Graffin at Mike's video conference with the Finance Minister of Kerala.

Sara

Eager to bring her friends to the WikEducator platform, Sara spoke fervently of an urgent need in India.

Indian teachers and learners must use technology to flatten the pyramid. They should understand, sharing is an imperative of teachers.

Raghunathan

An accomplished soft skills trainer and experienced technologist of the Petrochemical industry, he spoke of the teams he has brought to the Wiki Platform. He shared his screen showing Sarah Stewart, a veteran Wiki Facilitator, at her interaction with students of an NGO named Disha. 

On Indian Republic Day, Sarah had come online to wish Disha team Happy Republic Day and made their day with her charismatic interaction with them.

Raghu also showed Disha members Skype conference with Michael Graffin at the Republic Day celebration.

Venu

An accomplished Chemical Engineer, employed at Qatar Petroleum, Raghu is a volunteer facilitating Disha learners in Chemistry, the subject he is very fond of. Raghu spoke of how he came across WikiEducator and his happy surprise the great resource known as WikiEducator.

Jos Antony

Blogger and Malayalam Poet Jos Antony added yet another feather to his cap. He is well known in Kerala as a Blogger, Poet, Author and Technology Driver. This time he spent midnight oil writing a prayer song for WikiEducator's Pre-Training Workshop at Trichur. 

He, with the support of Panakkappalam Residence Association, organized the Online Prayer. He always plays win win. He is the person who grouped together this team for Skype interaction with Mike McGrother's team on 6th October 2011.

Later, he came online to meet the participants at WikiEducators' pre-training workshop and invited them all to learn the wiki way to make this world a better place for one and all.

C F Joseph

International Motivation Trainer, author and educator volunteered to help anyone interested in upgrading their life skills. He is setting up a facility for below poverty line children to realize their potential and excel as leaders. Everyone is Born to Excel, he implored.