DORA - Mobile Digital Learning: July 2015

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

DORA at 7th Kids IT Conference on the Coast

"DORA has spent today (and will tomorrow) playing with 75 tech ex kids from all over the Coast - aged 10 -12. They've played with drones, and time lapse photography, the steam train at Shantytown - so they've been in several centuries.

Jason Blair from West Coast Tech Education Trust has apparently taken loads of footage -he's tagged her in twitter, Facebook, the kids have uploaded stuff to YouTube. The Mayor of Greymouth got on and had a play. It's been brilliant!

Sarah did a 1.5 hour workshop with these kids around security and safety online -all engaged, all interacted. The used the sites the kids are using and she walked them through the risks. It is tally exciting! This is the 7th Kids IT Conference on the Coast 75 kids from schools everywhere. 2020 must have a presence next year. They loved our stuff!

DORA is presently sitting up at Shantytown with time lapse cameras attached to every window. We wanted to see whether her panels were all clean and in order - Drone!"

Cheryl Smeaton ace@westreap.org.nz

DORA, Mobile Digital Learning Centre

With support from InternetNZ, 2020 Communications Trust converted a beautiful old school bus into a hi-tech mobile learning centre in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dora was purchased from Central Motorways Ltd in Alexandra where she had operated as a school bus since 1985. She has been reinvented as a mobile digital learning centre, to support our Stepping Up classes in Christchurch, as since the quakes, venues at schools were limited, and transport often unreliable. With our independent mobile learning centre, we can take our digital learning to any venue.

For more information, please contact Laurence Zwimpfer at laurence.zwimpfer@2020.org.nz

Stepping UP

Access further learning and enhance your job opportunities

Stepping UP is free community-based computer and internet training that helps adults build digital skills in small easy steps.

Stepping UP is for anyone with basic computer knowledge wishing to develop skills relevant to their work and life. You choose the modules you want to learn.

Stepping UP is also an ideal follow up to 2020 Trust Computers in Homes training.

Visit www.steppingup.nz

The 2020 Trust

New Zealanders fully participating in our digital world

Stepping UP is an initiative of the 2020 Trust.

The 2020 Trust works with communities, leading programmes contributing to New Zealanders’ digital literacy, skills and inclusion.

Our other programmes include Computers in Homes, KiwiSkills, ICDL and the Digital Inclusion Map.

Visit www.2020.org.nz