Published by steve July 24th, 2007
in DHBP.
For two days students from Eikendal Primary, Floreat Primary and Montagu Drive Primary schools created their own digital hero books in a workshop led by Steve Vosloo. The workshop, held at Montagu Drive school in Mitchell’s Plain, was both engaging and fun for all involved. Students worked from their paper-based hero books to create a 2-minute digital version made up of scanned images, photos and images taken from the web, displayed to the sound of their voice narrations. Selecting and editing the images, recording the audio and writing a script to tie it all together were some of the new skills that the students learned.
Big thank yous to the educators Druscilla van Niekerk, Joy Prinsloo and Bonnie Lamb for their hard work in bringing digital hero booking to their students, the principals, students and everyone from Khanya who made this possible.
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Druscilla van Niekerk and students creating their digital hero books
Bonnie Lamb and students
Steve Vosloo leading the workshop
Montagu Drive Primary school, located in an area notorious for gangsterism and violence.
Published by steve July 17th, 2007
in DHBP.
Today Steve Vosloo visited two schools in Cape Town that have been participating in the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP): Eikendal Primary in Kraaifontein and Floreat Primary in Steenberg.
At Eikendal Primary there was an opportunity to meet Druscilla van Niekerk, the educator who has been hero booking with her students, Percival Meissenheimer, the principal of the school, John Jacobs, the IT/LAN administrator and also some of the young heroes.
A few of Druscilla’s students have already created digital hero books while others will be attending the second digital hero book workshop on 23-24 July. When asked what he thought of the project, one student replied: “It’s something new and exciting.” Druscilla felt that her students were now “more clear about goals and objectives in their lives,” even though sharing personal stories was difficult for some students.
From left: Druscilla van Niekerk, John Jacobs and Percival Meissenheimer, along with students at Eikendal Primary school.
At Floreat Primary, Steve met with the school principal, Noel Isaacs, and educator Joy Prinsloo, who has been hero booking with her students. It was wonderful to put faces to names after working together - but virtually - for so many months.
Joy Prinsloo and Beverley Job-Beziek, Khanya facilitator
A big thank you goes out to the educators, facilitators, principals and students for making the project such a success at these schools.
