Pinetown Rotary introduces computer technology to schools
The ITEL system is designed as a tool to enable educators to do their jobs faster and more efficiently.
THE Rotary Club of Pinetown will enable the 16 local high and primary schools in KwaNdengezi to buy the equipment needed with a grant of at least R3 000 for each school.
This will enable the schools to buy the minimum equipment needed to improve their results significantly by the use of Rotary’s ITEL System.
On Thursday, 10 October, Rotarians, principals and educators met at KwaManzini Primary School for an Open Day to demonstrate the advantages of the various methods and their use.
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The school provided six classrooms and in each a different method was demonstrated.
“Rotary has also wired KwaManzini Primary and Ndengetho High schools to the Internet. This enables the schools to access Rotary’s ITEL System of more than 700 gigs of more than 1 000 educational videos, lectures, past exam papers etc.) via computers, laptops, ‘smart’ TVs and ‘smart’ phones.
“The cost, together with one, free, 42″ TV was about R60 000 per school,” said Rotary’s community services director, Bill Draper.
For schools needing to show the content to large audiences, the ITEL loaded External Hard Drive (EHD) is coupled to a computer then projected onto a screen or white wall.
ITEL stands for ‘Intelligence Transfer from Teacher to Learner’ and was developed by the Rotary Clubs of South Africa and Pinetown in conjunction with the staff at the Department of Education’s, KwaNdengezi Teacher Training/Learning Centre.
“It is designed as a tool to enable educators to do their jobs faster and more efficiently. It consists of a 1 TeraByte External Hard Drive (EHD) loaded with, at present, more than 700 GigaBytes of content which covers the whole syllabus easily accessed by a ‘user friendly’ index system.”
He added this content can be downloaded in various ways depending on the use the teacher needs. “One system, while expensive, is best suited for large audiences in big rooms. The EHD is connected, via a computer, to a projector which displays the image onto a large screen or wall,” explained Draper. For smaller audiences it can be viewed on conventional TV sets.
Circuit manager for KwaNdengezi, Sibusiso Nzama, said they truly appreciate this initiative by Rotary. “As the department, we cannot do it alone, this system will come in handy for our children and also the teachers, we are so thankful to Rotary.”
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