Dan Andrew Otedo Male Nairobi Kenya: Share

Dan Andrew Otedo's Apps (1)

Dan Andrew Otedo's Friends

View All

Dan Andrew Otedo's Groups

ICT & Global Education

10 members
Social Issues in Educati…

12 members

View All

Dan Andrew Otedo's Page

Profile Information

Subject area expertise

History and Religious Education

Grade level(s) taught

grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12

Present status

Certified/Licensed Educator

Language(s) you can instruct in

English

Number of years teaching experience

11-15

Skills & Interests

Information communicatons technology, especially integrating of ICT's in education in order to improve learning outcomes.

I have a plethora of experience having been a high school teacher for over 10 years and later involved in ICT4D and ICT in education initiatives. I have been involved in Community-based capacity building initiatives that training young women in rural and marginalized urban areas to use ICT’s to generate new business activities, new income, and new jobs and in the long term community development opportunities
This has involved managing youth employability training youths under the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Group at the African centre for Women Information and communications Technology ACWICT www.acwict.org to empower and prepare young women for emerging job opportunities in the 21st century.
I have managed the Innovative Women Teachers program a Microsoft Partners in Learning project that aims among other things providing opportunity for integration of ICT in teaching .This involved customizing the e-Learning Microsoft Digital Literacy curriculum, and training Trainer of trainers at the Kenya Institute of Education and deploying them to train teachers in the countryside.

Working with Rural Schools Computers and Educational Materials Program www.rural.or.ke ,I have also trained over 50 Youth Polytechnic and National Youth Service ICT Instructors at the National Youth Service Training Institute, with the theme of integration of e-learning in national youth Polytechnic for sustainable development the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Microsoft ESA.

I am also a trustee of the Organic Health Response (OHR Trust), OHR represents a mission cultivated by a group of Kenyan organic farmers, health workers, and teachers and a team of international medical and graduate students which through local and global partnerships, are setting up a unique solar powered Cyber – VCT facility called the Ekialo Kiona Center. The project will use information communications technology, social solidarity and ecological sustainability to turn the tide against HIV/AIDS. In Mfangano islands on Lake Victoria

If you are willing to volunteer, in what area(s):

internships, membership outreach, organisational partnerships, workshop facilitation

How did you hear about us and a few words why you want to join TWB-Canada:

From Mali Bain, through the Minciu Sodas laboratory.She was leading a team of TWB members in Naivasha .We met with the group at the Kenya institute of Education where i was overseeing an ICT teacher trainer of trainee workshop

Dan Andrew Otedo's Photos

Loading…

Dan Andrew Otedo's Blog

Inveneo Computers for Ekialo Kiona

This week I had a privileged and humbling experience of meeting Kristin Peterson: CEO& Co –Founder Inveneo www.inveneo.org Inveneo is Technology Company specializing inventing and promoting realistic and viable technology solutions in rural areas .Inveneo have in their philosophy the view that technology is only ½ the battle in creating a knowledge based economy.

Providing appropriate /relevant Human skills and capacity is as crucial as providing the rig… Continue

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

Sometimes we Know it in the Heart

Is this not relly a beautiful flag? Now i want to imagine what message this flag in a heart conveys. How lovely it would be at the centre of a compass,showing the many directions love can reach out .Then each country chapter would have such a flag to symbolise loyalty,patriotism love.

2 Teach is 2 Touch… Continue

Posted on September 30, 2009 at 11:17am — 1 Comment

Obama's Speech:Let Children Get The Inspiration

What the heck of this was 'to allow /not to air the “Obamaspeech” to schools about? Denial of basic freedoms like those of listening and participation only plays reverse psychology. Someone needed schooling about this.
Some food for thought, I must have read somewhere that rules are not valid because the s… Continue

Posted on September 20, 2009 at 1:00pm —

Lingering Questions

Lingering Questions

This year two weeks ago I hosted a team of Teachers Without Borders Canada -Educators from North America .For four weeks, we had pedagogy and ICT integration workshops at the Suba centre in Mbita, Gilgil and Naivasha. Of course we had lots of challen… Continue

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 4:03pm —

Lonely Island -Real Education Divide

During our pre-workshop visits we had the privilege of visiting Kibuogi primary school on Kibuogi Island. Like a tale of two worlds apart, Kibuogi has no road, no hospital, no police; The Island has a population between 1000 and 600 depending on the fishing season. Most of the residents are migrant fisherfolk

… Continue

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Comment Wall (11 comments)

You need to be a member of Education Beyond Borders to add comments!

Join this Ning Network

At 5:43am on October 22, 2009, marijka said…: Have tried calling a couple of times - do you still want to chat?

At 6:47pm on September 29, 2009, marijka said…: Hi Andrew - I tried adding you to my Skype account, but your skype name could not be located - why don't you try adding me - marijkas

At 12:31pm on August 1, 2009, Don Howard said…: I'm returning to Kenya on 2 October with a group of people to help install libraries at 20 schools in the Kisii, Meru and other areas. Perhaps we could meet so I could explain the Schools and Communities Offering Projects that Empower program.

At 4:53am on February 25, 2009, Cecilia Olala said…: Dan owada, sometimes one gets too busy and confused. I have managed to edit my profile and write the right course but I still remain an actor for I have never assumed female roles in any casting.

Otherwise French seems to have got the better part of me for I survive on it.
Oriti osiepa. Keep in touch

At 7:53am on February 23, 2009, catherine ing'ahidzu musera said…: Hi Dan, av done some assignments on CTM but they are not allowing submissions now. what do you advise? Av also read the information you sent/and if their is anything you want me to do please do inform me. do stay intouch.

At 6:21am on February 14, 2009, Lois McGill-Horn said…: Hi Dan,
I'd love to chat with you. Do you use Skype at all?
Lois

At 1:34pm on February 13, 2009, marijka said…: Hello Dan - am looking forward to making a contribution in any way I can. From your blog, I see you are an eductor in Kenya. Please tell me a little about yourself.

At 3:17am on February 9, 2009, CAROLYNE KIMUTAI said…: Hi Dan,
I will ensure that i add my profile photo.Currently i am teaching at Institute of business studies in ruaraka off thika road.The IWT curriculum has really helped me in my teaching,since i integrated ICT in my subjects of specialization the performance of the students has improved tremendously.

At 5:36am on January 26, 2009, Charles Ochieng Ochiel said…: Dear Dan Otedo,
I am very happy to read your note and very soon i will send you my profile some of my pictures on what i do with the children in the classroom
Since i am a new member i think you will guide and show me the right way.
Hoping that you will help me.

Yours sincerely,

Charles

At 4:30am on January 26, 2009, Dennis Kuzenko said…: Hi Dan

The photo was taken during the dry season in El Salvador. I have been taking teams of people every year since 2003 to work in a small village called Loma Linda. The people there are very poor. We have contributed in several areas: education, health care, support of religious education, home building, a micro-loan program, and agricultural programs. It is a project that is very important to me. If you look very carefully, just to the right of the picture you can see the roof tops of some of the village in the valley.

Dennis