[Health] Fwd: RE: Introductions

Wed Aug 4 21:00:37 EDT 2010

Great stuff from Ian...

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From: "Ian Thomson" <IanT at spc.int>
Date: Aug 4, 2010 5:41 PM
Subject: RE: [Health] Introductions
To: "Beth Santos" <beth at waveplace.org>

Hi Beth,

While I am gathering the SPC info, have you seen the Health training
material US Aid have produced? It is very good, but not for kids. But
perhaps it can be adapted

Have a look at

http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm

It is easy to register and complete a course just to see how it works

We in the Pacific are keen to adapt this to work off line as many health
clinics are not connected, or the bandwidth is too expensive. So far, US Aid
have not been very helpful in this, but we are persevering

Ian Thomson

PacRICS and OLPC Coordinator

SPC

Phone +687 26 01 44

From: elizabeth.ann.santos at gmail.com [mailto:elizabeth.ann.santos at gmail.com]
On Behalf Of Beth Santos
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:04 AM
To: Ian Thomson
Subject: Re: [Health] Introductions

That's fine. We can definitely look at them and see if they're something we
can build an Etoys/other program out of. The content is the biggest hurdle
right now!

Beth

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Beth Santos
Outreach Coordinator
Waveplace Foundation

Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44
Fax: +1 610 797 3199
Cell: +1 603 661 1273
http://www.waveplace.org

Waveplace on Facebook <
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Waveplace/270512992335>
Twitter: @waveplace <http://twitter.com/waveplace>

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Ian Thomson <IanT at spc.int> wrote:

Hi Beth,

I will see what we have, but they are really only a PDF version of a paper
pamphlet. We have nothing that is interactive or collaborative.

Ian Thomson

PacRICS and OLPC Coordinator

SPC

Phone +687 26 01 44

From: health-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:
health-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Beth Santos
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:15 PM
To: Ian Thomson
Cc: OLPC Health list
Subject: Re: [Health] Introductions

Ian, I'm wondering if it would be possible to look at some of the resources
SPC uses in public health education and then work to translate them to a
digital platform?

Beth

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ian Thomson <IanT at spc.int> wrote:

Hi All,

I work for an intergovernmental agency in the Pacific Islands, providing
Technical Assistance to 22 Islands. It is called the Secretariat of the
Pacific Community (SPC)

I work in the ICT Outreach program and have responsibility for OLPC and the
Rural Internet Connectivity System (affordable VSAT Internet)

So far, we have started 9 country OLPC projects.

SPC has a major Health program in the region and runs many projects on Non
Communicable Diseases and things like elimination of malaria, TB etc. Some
of our health projects are funded by the Global Foundation. We do quite a
lot of education and capacity building in the program and have developed
many paper based education resources

In the Pacific, we are looking at developing culturally appropriate digital
resources that help islanders address their major issues such as Health and
Climate Change.

Ian Thomson

PacRICS and OLPC Coordinator

SPC

Phone +687 26 01 44

From: health-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:
health-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Beth Santos
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 7:46 AM
To: OLPC Health list; etoys-education-team at googlegroups.com
Subject: [Health] Introductions

Hi all,

Now that I'm back in the USA, let's get people introduced to one another. I
think a good idea might be to first introduce ourselves and describe our
interests, then pair people up together (Etoys people with public health
people and such) to take on different units (I'm assuming at least the
majority of them will be based in Etoys so that teachers can edit them to
make them culturally relevant in various locations). Then we can get a
timeline going to see some of this stuff out.

So if you can just take a quick five minutes to introduce yourself and to
indicate what particular interests you have in terms of public health
projects, that'd be great!

I'm Beth and I'm the Outreach Coordinator for Waveplace Foundation <
http://www.waveplace.org> . After doing a few laptop pilots using Etoys and
OLPC's XO laptop, what I realized was really missing was some public health
curricula that kids could use in our (and other) laptop programs around the
world. I have my own computer program running in São Tomé that has
benefitted from the Waveplace courseware but has also done a lot of
development on its own. I've also worked in Haiti and St. John with
Waveplace.

Lots of interest in terms of public health, nothing in particular comes to
mind, though I do have experience with malaria and AIDS prevention
initiatives.

Excited to be working with all of you and hoping that we can get some great
work together!

Take care,

Beth

PS Etoys Education Team-- I cc'ed you on this email in case any of you are
interested in joining us on the OLPC listserv, which is our home even though
it's technically a Waveplace project that we're doing. Let me know and I'd
be happy to add you, or sign up yourself to the OLPC list at least!
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