Teacher Training Workshop at Islamabad,

Pakistan on 07 June 2009

MKFC Education Finder arranged this workshop for our Teacher

Training learners, where we distributed Macbooks to our teacher

training students. The purpose of the workshop was to make the

students trained about Macintosh operating system, iLife, iWork and

other ICT tools like Opit (Learning Management System), the built

in function of Opit, Skype, Blogs, Podcasts, presentation about

End-­‐to-­‐ End eLearning, Community Action Plan etc. There was also a

social aspect of this workshop, most of the students were living in

different location of Pakistan so they were not familiar with each

other because they did not have face to face communication, they

had only virtual communication before. This workshop provided

them a platform to meet and share with each other. The workshop

was divided into three parts the first was to give them presentation

about End-­‐to-­‐End eLearning, Community Action plan, Opit,

Macintosh, second was discussion and question answer session.

After lunch the third session started, I with the help of two guys

from Apple gave them hands on training. Two students couldn’t join

the workshop physically but we took them through videoconference.

Following activities took place during the workshop.

• End-to-End eLearning presentation

• Community Action Plan presentation

• The use of Social Media in Learning Environment

• Video conferencing through Skype

• Question and Answer session

• Macbook, iWork, and iLife hands on Training

Rabia Nawaz, Hajra Bibi, Sobia Farid, Hashim Hussain, Alamdar

Khan, Yasir Thind, Farhan Akthar, Waqas Arif. Best Western Hotel

Islamabad.

MKFC Stockholm College provided Laptops to the students, so they

use it for their own learning. These laptops are going to help them

to use Internet with flexibility even if they don’t have electricity,

and electricity is a big issue now a day in Pakistan. Macbook has

potential and with its additional applications students could use it

for social media and presentations.

During my visit to Pakistan I tried to search Mifi availability in

Pakistan, so it could be used with MKFC Stockholm College

approach to our mobile learning. I came to know in Sweden that

Telenor has introduced Mifi in Pakistan but when I met Telenor in

Pakistan they even didn’t know about Mifi. They told me that they

have introduced EDGE technology. Telenor has introduced USB

Internet and is available throughout Pakistan with competitive

prices.

Community Action Plan Workshop at Layyah ,

Pakistan15 June 2009

After my return from Kabul, our teacher training students from

Layyah invited me and arranged a seminar. They invited other

teachers, doctors and media person as well in the seminar. After

having information and clear image of MKFC Stockholm College

work approach we started discussion. It was an open debate

everybody contributed their ideas about community action plan and

their field of interest. The young doctors were running a free trust

hospital, operated by themselves and with the support of locals

people; some of the teachers had done small community projects

on environment like awareness and plantation. They all decided to

make a community where they work in collaboration, share their

knowledge and skills to exert a high through put.

Seminar arranged by Teacher Training students, Layyah

Our teacher training students are going to provide them a common

platform for meeting and use of ICT tools, Internet, social media

and a local discussion forum. They have decided that they are going

to work in four domains -­‐Health awareness at grassroots level in a

local community

-­‐Teacher training -­‐Environment -­‐Micro Credit

They want to apply MKFC Stockholm College Community Action Plan

approach to their local community. They will start community action

plan approach with spreading information and educating local

people about their own problems, health issues and their remedies.

To making it more sustainable they will use the contents provided

by MKFC Stockholm College. These contents consist of written

material and short pictorial stories in their own local language. This

approach will help people to remember because they are not only

reading these contents but they will practice in their real

environments.

MKFC Stockholm College Teacher Training students are working in

authentic learning environments, where they not only implement

their knowledge in classroom environment but in their

surroundings, in their local communities. They want to become

change maker, a change for better, to strive for better tomorrow

than today. They want grassroots level involvement by the people

so they could bring a sustainable change, a change that should be

visible and transparent. They are going to take their first step by

spreading awareness about health, sanitation, environment and

micro credit.

I hope these efforts are not going to stop; this seems to be a

continuation process for sustainable development. Throughout my

way in Pakistan and Kabul I discussed MKFC Stockholm College

approach with many people and they all were quite impressed and

happy what we are doing there. It gave me a certain kind of inner

satisfaction and my heart is delighted what we have done so far and

we are planning to do in near future.