Teachers and tutors of English in Kasese districts have been implementing a project on teaching
English language using ICTs. They have been trained in using various ICT tools
to develop and prepare lessons and deliver them in the classrooms. Computers for Schools Uganda carried out
refresher training for teachers to renew their skills and bring on board newly
recruited teachers. Apart from the training, heads of departments of English
also received internet modems and digital cameras on behalf of the departments.
The training was carried out on 23rd May 2014 where 20 teachers and
tutors attended. This training mainly focused on boosting teachers’ research
skills using the internet and using social networks as a platform to exchange
information and views with other teachers/tutors across different schools. They
were trained on how to use e-mailing as a means of communication and those that
did not have e-mail addresses were helped to create them. Skype accounts for
each of the teachers and tutors were opened to create a platform for
communication amongst the teachers.
The teachers were
guided on how to use different browsers like google, bing and yahoo to search for
relevant information on the web. This helped teachers expand their knowledge
base as information that was got from the web supplemented the already existing
information from the text books.
Apart from learning how to source for information from the web,
teachers were also taken through the process of storing teaching materials on
external devices for future reference and back up. This was to help resolve the
problem of flexibility and viruses. By storing their work on an external disk,
it would enable teachers to edit their work even within the comfort of their
homes.
