iEARN Teachers Training Workshp at American Centre Lahore
6-8th April 2004
20 educators from 10 public, private and trust schools have successfully attended the 3 days
iEARN Teachers Training Program from 6th-8th April 2004
Most of the participating schools are adopted by US
consulate as a part of their school improvement program. The schools are mostly community
schools they are focused and the staff and leadership from are enthusiastic to
initiate iEARN projects in their schools.
"As a teacher this experience is valuable to me because only the iEARN platform gave us a chance to express our feelings all over the world. And most important of all, our students who do not know the computer more than a computing machine will have a unique opportunity to work on different projects with other students of the world through internet.
The participants have enthusiastically completed all the offline and online workshop activities and made real efforts to learn the skills and understand the concept of shared online learning.
The three days session was facilitated by veteran iEARNers that includes Kelly Teamey, Sarah Alam & Mr Saleem Ibrahim
Also we are thankful to Miss Tahira Habib and her staff for providing us with all the logistical and technical support.
iEARN-Pakistan in collaboration with US Consulate organised a 3 days iEARN Teacher Training Workshop at the US Consulate General Lahore.
Rex Moser the Public Affairs Officer and Farah S. Kamal the Country Coordinator of iEARN Pakistan innaugurated the workshop sessions.
Mr Steve joined the group for the closing ceremony and distributed the certificates to the participants.
Sometimes one lands on a very new place
without any prior idea of what’s going to happen. Fear of the unknown, is natural.
While on my way to the attend the program I had mixed feelings but now I am very happy
that I was invited. I’ve made many new friends on-line as well as off line.
“The more we study the more we know about our ignorance” proved true for me.
Before coming here I was unaware of the iEARN but after this crash-course I’m better
acquainted to the people involved and make a difference in the lives of many. _____
Shabnum
After searching through the projects at
iEARN Project site now I found myself some ideas how to apply the projects in the school
or in lesson. How to involve students in such type of activities. Now I have gained some
confidence about how to start these project activities in school. What I feel is there are
no boundaries, No limitations, No hesitation, but only the sharing , trust, love and
respect for each other being the iEARN family. ___ Larry