| Oct - 2002 -The Red Book is a 10MB scan of addresses and phone numbers that might pertain to IT in Gambia. PLease contact marcmaxson@yahoo.com before downloading. (Requires Adobe Acrobat) |
| May - 2001 -Clara Soh has been recognized in Gambia's Observer newspaper as a leader in IT. Read about it. (Small version) |
| Read about what 5 Banjul Area Schools did for computer education in the 2001 Computer Lab Case Studies - May 2001. |
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IT Manual (Part 1 of 4) The latest DRAFT of the future manual for IT/Computer volunteers serving in The Gambia is available. Please read it and send your comments to marcmaxson@yahoo.com. |
| Check out a new website on the project to bring computers into The Gambia using only the financial resources of local people. It is Resurrecting the Dinosaur |
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March 24th, 2001
Curriculum Development Workshop Leading Computer Educators convened at Girl Guides to produce a syllabus and computer manual for the 2001 school year. Here are my pre-meeting notes: Notes , a list of important teaching software, and a sample one term schedule. Syllabus , the adopted Gambia DRAFT syllabus for the first year of computer literacy classes in Senior Secondary schools, starting June 2001. Syllabus in RTF format for your Word processor. Onofficial notes from the Curriculum development workshop, by Marc Maxson. |
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The DRAFT version of the Computer Manual, in zip format for QUARK XPRESS. Ignore unless you have Quark XPRESS v4.5 |
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November, 2000
Four Peace Corps Volunteers travelled to over a dozen rural schools to promote hands-on science demonstration using locally available materials. Here is a record of the  Science Demo Road Show
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October, 2000
Marc Maxson and Jen Johnson had the priviledge of seeing the whole of the Gambia while delivering mail to Peace Corps volunteers. Here is a photo-tour of the Gambia. See the Gambia |
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Discuss These Articles on our Web bulletin Board. You can add your own comments now and it instantly updates! ITC Webboard |
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Information Technology Survey - August 24-27, 2000 Peace Corps Volunteers recently undertook a comprehensive survey of computer resources in Gambian Senior Secondary Schools (SSSs), Divisional Health Centers (DHTs), and Regional educational offices (REOs). We counted visible computers and interviewed the staff as to the origin and condition of the computers and electricity. This is a summary of our report. Gambian school by school summary and report recommendations This is our report to each of the schools we visited. Survey Questions - read the interview survey and physical assessment guidelines before looking at the raw interview responses and raw physical results File Downloads |
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IT Newsletter
- August-September 2000
Our first newsletter is mostly a colection of technical info for
PCV teachers to use.
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| The Solar Power IS Possible, Even in the Gambia: Case Study at Essau Senior Secondary School is now available. This guide needs to be updated, however, is a good start for those schools in the Gambia who wish to use the sun to power their computers. |
| For more information contact Mike Casper or David Mills |
