Learning4Content/Workshops/Face-to-Face schedule/L4C22/Workshop Reports/Host Facilitator Report

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Workshop Dates and Facilitator contacts

The workshop ran for 3 days from 17th- 19th December

Vincent Kizza

Tel: 256-312130
Email: vkizza2001@yahoo.co.uk

Acknowledgments

The facilitator wishes to express profound appreciation to the following without whom this workshop would not have been possible:-

• COL for the sponsorship of the workshop.
• Mr. Victor Mensah,who despite his heavy office demands,agreed to co-facilitate this workshop.We will eternaly be grateful to him.
• The foresighted Gayaza High School Administration for accepting to host the workshop.
• The support and technical staff at the School
• The distinguished participants whose zeal and hardwork saw us to the end.

Introduction and Background

This was the inagural face-to-face L4C workshop in our country Uganda.

Venue

The venue of the workshop was Gayaza High School,a top Uganda girls school,15km from the capital city Kampala.

Participants

In all there were 24 participants who turned up out of the expected 30,all of whom except one signed their learning contracts. Of these,10 were females.22 were secondary school teachers and 2 were teachers in training from Makerere University.

COUNTRY	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	GENDER	ORGANIZATION	PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION	EMAIL	PHONE NUMBER +256-772-416197	LEARNING CONTRACT?
Zambia	Victor	Mensah	Male	CYPRCA	Programme Manager	mensah.victor at gmail dot com	00260 97 8404 739	FACILITATOR
Uganda	Vincent	Kizza	Male	Gayaza High School	Teacher	vkizza2001@yahoo.co.uk	+256-0712312130	FACILITATOR
Uganda	James	Lukenge	Male	Makerere University	Student	Lukenge111@yahoo.co.uk	+256-712 204 835
Uganda	Ronald	Ddungu	Male	Gayaza High School	Deputy Head teacher/ICT coordinator	ronaldddungu@yahoo.com	+256772433879	Signed.
Uganda	Richard	Kyakoonye	Male	Gayaza High School	Educational Officer	Kyakoo2000@gmail.com	+256755510047 0r +256712510047	Signed.
Uganda	Lucy	Nakiboneka Serunkuuma	Female	Gayaza High School	Interface Systems Analyst/Education Officer	lserunkuuma@yahoo.com	+256-772-416197	Signed.
Uganda	Stanley	Mayanja	Male	Hope High School	Teacher	msstanley18@yahoo.com	+256-777135352	Signed.
Uganda	Muhammad	Bigirwa	Male	Namagabi Senior Secondary School	Education Officer(teacher)	mbigirwa@yahoo.com	+256-772-457687	Signed.
Uganda	Alex	Mondo	Male	Gayaza High School	Teacher	mondilex@yahoo.com	+256-772-618422	Signed.
Uganda	Christine	Nakimbugwe	Female	Watoto Childcare Ministries:Hope High school	Teacher	nakimstin@yahoo.co.uk	+256712588488	Signed.
Uganda	Anthony	Kagoro	Male	Gayaza	Teacher	anthony.kagoro@gmail.com	+256-712-493989	Signed.
uganda	Justine Namatovu	Namatovu	female	Makerere universtity	Student	kizzajustine@yahoo.co.uk	+256777518258	Signed.
Uganda	Solomon	Asea	Male	Gayaza High School	Educator Officer/Teacher	aseas99@yahoo.com	+256 772 447 802	Signed.
Uganda	Florence	Namukasa	Female	Makerere College School	Education officer	namukasakizza@yahoo.com	+256773123364	Signed.
Uganda	erina	Nanfuka	Female	Gayaza High School	Educational specialist	elnahn@yahoo.co.uk	+25671535887	Signed.
Uganda	Cathy	Bateesa Takozekibi	Female	Gayaza High School	Education Specialist(History,Economics)	cathybats@yahoo.com	+256772463260	Signed.
Uganda	Mashood	Safari	male	Kinaawa High School Mugongo	Teacher.	msafari82@yahoo.com	+256782581681	Signed.
uganda	Pearl	Tendo	Female	lunar	teacher	pearl.tendo@yahoo.com	+256779267697	Signed.
uganda	michael	kayongo	male	gayaza high school	teacher	kayongom2001@yahoo.co.uk	+256392840130	Signed.
Uganda	Victoria	Naggayi	Female	Mwereerwe secondary school	Teacher		+256782815189	Signed.
Uganda	Deus	Seruwu Kasanya	Male	Entebbe S. S. S	Education Officer	d_kasanya@yahoo.com	+256782419700	Signed.
Uganda	Samuel	Kizito Sempiri	Male	Gayaza high school	Teacher	skizito99@yahoo.co.uk	256-0772-587-008	Signed.
uganda	eva	ntege	female	vienna college namugongo	teacher	ntegeeva@yahoo.com		Not Signed.
uganda	chebet	chebet	male	Gayaza High School	Teacher	miltonchebs2000@yahoo.com	+256 782 068382	Signed.
Uganda	Rachel	Nabwami	Female	Watoto Child Care Ministries	Teacher	rnabwami3@yahoo.com	256 - 782 - 680257	Signed.
Uganda	Ronald	Kasendwa	Male			rkasendwa@gmal.com	+256775194615	Signed.
Uganda	Daniel	Daniel Kakinda	Male	SchoolNet Uganda	Executive and Training Director	dkakinda[AT]yahoo.com	+256 772 820 167	Signed.

Pre-workshop Preparations

Lesson Notes and Programme Coordination Discussions on the workshop began in October between the COL team, and the facilitators via online forums and telephone. The workshop code was L4C22 and a page created for same under the Learning4Content WikiEducator web page WikiEducator.org/ Learning4Content. Programme planning and coordination, Lesson Notes and workshop discussions were all linked to the L4C page of the WikiEducator Uganda country page (WikiEducator.org/Uganda/L4C).

On-Ground Arrangements Host searching, venue booking, participant scouting, invitations, follow-up on invited participants, technical arrangements (software and hardware considerations), contingency arrangements (batteries, power generator, etc.), budgeting, and other administrative arrangements in Uganda was conducted by the Uganda team led by Mr Vincent Kizza. Mr Mensah provided advisory services and technical backstopping for workshop programme synchronization.

The venue was Gayaza High School’s Computer lab, with a capacity to host over 35 participants on a 1-to-1 computer basis. Back-up batteries and power generator set was at hand and ready for contingency situations. The technical assistance was provided by Mr Sam Kizito, the Head of Computer Section of GHS. A day before the workshop, the relevant WE pages for the workshop were cached on the server to avoid a reduction in bandwidth speed during the workshop.

Workshop Proceedings

Day 1: Objectives

The objectives of the day were to introduce participants to:-

• WikiEducator and COL
• Web 2.0 Technologies
• Learning contracts
• Setting up a WE account
• WikiMedia editing and formatting

Day 1: Proceedings

The day stated a bit late at 9:30am instead of the scheduled 8:00am because of the late reporting of many participants. However the day later picked pace and all planned activities were carried out as per the days time table.

Day 1: Achievements

By the end of the day,participants were able to:-

• Acquaint themselves with WE and COL
• Open acounts on WE
• Sign learning contracts
• Do basic editing and formatting.

Days 2 and 3: Objectives

The objectives of days 2 and 3 were:-

• Take stock of acquired skills in Day 1
• Create and link pages.
• Insert images and other file types.
• Colaborative page editing and interactions
• Some content creation
• Pedagogical templates
• Wiki strucures and free content

Days 2 and 3: Proceedings

• Typically,each of the days started with a 30- min practical session to finish off assignments from previous day.
• Folowed by a recap of the previous day's work through an out door flash light session

Lessons Learnt

• Pre-workshop preparation and on-spot communication between parties is key to workshop success .
• Particpants can be encouraged to bring own laptops where applicable.
• Basic computer literacy should be a requirement for participation
• Provision of meals enables participants to remain focused.
• The portion of creating new pages and links is a bit heavy on participants an should be given more time.
• Participants sort of get scared with signing learning contracts.
• The portion of free software/Content takes more time than earlier alloted and greatly excites participants.