Guyana

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CYEC sent a small team of volunteers to Guyana in Summer 2009 to equip young people with online skills.

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01 Sep 2009

To round off the course and consolidate the learning of the previous weeks, we ended the course with a quiz. 38 points were up for grabs and we were pleasantly surprised by how much all the groups got into it. There were some pretty high scorers too, so they must’ve all been paying attention.
Here are the questions:
HTML
1. Which tags open and close an HTML page?
2. What are the tags for?
a) Paragraph
b) Bold
c) Italics
(3 marks)
3. What does HTML stand for?
4. Name a web browser.

01 Sep 2009

On the last day of the course I asked Matt a few questions about the project and his experience in Guyana.

31 Aug 2009

Pontus was only able to make the first two weeks of the project but was an indispensable part of the team, developing the HTML, CSS and advanced HTML parts of the course.
I put a camera in front of Pontus and asked him a few questions at the end of his stay:

26 Aug 2009

Now I’m back in England (and in an office with an incredible broadband connection) I’m able to upload some of the video that I took while out in Guyana.
I’ve got interviews with some of the other guys to come. In the meantime, here’s some footage of us (mainly Pontus here) feeding the manatees in the Georgetown National Park:

For more info read Pontus’s earlier post about the manatees.

25 Aug 2009

In an earlier post I said that a crew from NCN had come to interview us for a feature about our project. Well, here’s the feature itself:

It’s a shame that Hugh’s contribution wasn’t included – most likely due to someone noisily starting up a van’s engine mid-interview.
Big thanks to NCN for airing the feature out and for giving us a copy.

24 Aug 2009

The first part of this specialism on good content focused on writing skills. I came up with four exercises which were designed to get the participants thinking about best practice in terms of writing for the web.
Exercise 1. Titles and taglines.

21 Aug 2009

Day 3 Morning – Beginning the Assignment

21 Aug 2009

After finishing the course with our final workshop last Friday and saying goodbye to Chris, who had an early morning flight on Saturday, Matt and me hit the road for our longest trip away from Georgetown yet: a four day excursion to the far south of the country.
Surama eco lodge

20 Aug 2009

Day 3 Morning – MovieClips and Tweens
The first part of the morning was spent showing the class the two major tweens used in flash before CS4: Motion and shape. Tweens are a kind of shortcut for animation in flash. You put the object you want to animate in a position at the first and last frames you want to animate and flash does the rest of the work.

14 Aug 2009

steelband
It struck me this week that I’ve not really tried to properly describe Georgetown on this blog since I’ve been here.

19 May 2009

Recruitment for this project has now closed.

We hope to introduce the project team and share more news about this exciting project soon.

14 Apr 2009

We're putting together a small team of young adults from the UK to spend up to six-weeks in Guyana this summer - running training and workshops to equip young people in Guyana (ages 16 - 25) with a wide range of online skills.

Could you be part of the team?