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ESF has

  • provided online tutoring in English for Moroccan High School students,
  • connected schools in Morocco and Australia,
  • started the development of an Archive of Legend and Myth which will house students throughout the world multimedia online  presentations of local and national myths and folk tales. 
  • provided support by a school psychologist and parent advocate helping them deal with behavior issues in the Caribbean.
  • I will be presenting an interactive lecture on  the brain basis  of thinking style and its relationship to learning disability.
  • Over the past year we have met and collaborated with diverse groups and the three projects have a common theme of poverty and low technology.In each project, ESF will provide professional development in education, special education, and psychological/social guidance.

The first project (Vite-N-Hope) is located in Lahore, Pakistan.  For the past 10 years VNH has been providing health and education to the street children in the Red Light district.  It has been in existence for 10 years undera UNESCO grant.  We will work with the teachers and show them how to integrate a computer as a tool of learning into their classes.This may range
from printable worksheets to the use of Excel spreadsheets to analyze data, depending on the level of technology available locally.

The next two projects are both one computer sites and our services will be limited to email, discussion forums, and skype.  The staff of ESF has been using telecomputing since 1981 and know how to use whatever the level of technology.  In the early 1990's two of the teachers were using a single computer with modem speed of 1200 were dealing with special education students.

One location is the Philippines, where a special education coordinator wants to provide internet support for the teachers of 20 students with physical and cognitive disabilities.

The third project is one started by Joshua Konkankoh, the creator of Free World Cameroon.  Cameroon is in much the same situation as the Philippines: One man in charge with one computer.