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Spotlight on Senegal

ePals Spotlight on Senegal

CyberSmart Africa! and Ecole Sinthiou Mbadane, a West African rural primary school, have together creates a series of short videos depicting local students: how they live, learn and function on a daily basis. The students use Flip video cameras to record the images and a microphone to record narration. The narration is in French, and English subtitles are added. These digital stories are a great complement to ePals “The Way We Are” Project, Take your students on a virtual field trip to rural Senegal. Let them explore for themselves the similarities and differences in students’ daily lives.

About CyberSmart Africa!

The immediate goal of the CyberSmart! 21st Century Learning Initiative is to create a model for digital learning that is truly sustainable and scalable through innovative, technology-based approaches. CyberSmart Africa’s ultimate goal is narrowing the digital divide and preparing students to benefit economically, socially and politically from living in a connected world. http://cybersmart.org/africa/

About Ecole Sinthiou Mbadane

Ecole Sinthiou Mbadane 1 is a rural primary school located in the brush (off paved roads) approximately 7 kilometers from the town of Mbour, 100 kilometers south of the Senegal’s capital, Dakar. Students, ranging between 8-15 years old, speak Wolof as their first language. At school, however, students speak French. Despite having no electricity at school (there is a nearby internet café), students are eager to create and share digital stories, collaborating with students around the world.

Only published comments... Jul 26 2009, 08:55 PM by Tim B

Comments

Michelle M said:

I learned that people that live in Senegal have to do more things than other kids have to do. They have to work, clean, take care of the family (sort of), help with the animals, and help their siblings with homework (some kids). I don't think I would be able to do all of that stuff. I barely work at home as it is. I would like to learn what kind of food the people in Senegal eat and cook. I think it would be a very interesting thing to do.

May 3, 2011 11:11 AM
Shelby B said:

By watching this video I learned a lot about Africa and its people. I didn't think that the children would have homework too! I thought it was really cool that the cattle followed the boy to the field and back. I would like to learn more about Senegal such as its climate and its government. I would also like to see more about a day in life of someone living in Senegal.

May 3, 2011 11:15 AM
Austin H said:

In these videos I learned what the people of Senegal do every day.

May 3, 2011 12:05 PM
Natori B said:

I learned that the people in the village don't only cook for their family they cook for the whole village and that they are very polite and share there food and milk but they also herd they cows around for an daily walk.

May 3, 2011 12:06 PM
Mackenzie L said:

I learned that everyone in the village is very polite and that they think of other people because they share food and milk with people in the village. They also have a lot of fun, but a lot of responsibilities too.

May 3, 2011 12:06 PM
Cirina B said:

okay I thought that the fourth one was weird, and I never knew they had to make their own milk and if you look at their environment and you can tell that they are very poor. And how do they go potty if they obviously don't have a bathroom they brush their teeth in their room.

May 3, 2011 12:16 PM
Lee M said:

I just learned that some of the people in Africa aren't as rich as you and I and that each day it's pretty rough for the boy. There's nothing else I really want to know about Africa.

May 3, 2011 1:43 PM
Destiny S said:

I learned that people in Africa use resources for fishing, and getting milk. I also learned that the people in Africa help each other to find food and make things. I want to know more about the culture and how people there are different from people here. I think they have a dry climate.

May 3, 2011 1:45 PM
Seven M said:

I think that even without computers or much money you can be happy like they show in the video

December 9, 2011 5:02 AM
Seven M said:

i found this video extremly interesting and i would like to learn more about their culture

December 9, 2011 5:02 AM
Seven M said:

how many people do this in the village

December 9, 2011 5:03 AM
Seven M said:

elizabeth; now i know how the cows walk to the grass in Africa

December 9, 2011 5:06 AM
Seven M said:

the morning routine of the average African made me feel sad for him.

December 9, 2011 5:07 AM
Seven M said:

in the last video it was fun to learn about what the Africans eat

December 9, 2011 5:08 AM
Seven M said:

These people and us have a very big gap between us.  They don't have access to internet but they have access to comunication.  That shows that the digital divide between those people and us is not as big as it seems.

December 9, 2011 5:12 AM
Seven M said:

I think that this is very touching showing us how normal people need to make their every day things, leena

December 9, 2011 5:13 AM
Seven M said:

Elizabeth: it is a very touching video that shows what people do in Africa

January 15, 2012 11:46 AM
Seven M said:

it was very interesting

January 16, 2012 6:38 AM
teuntje mmi d said:

There is a big gap between us and the people in the video. In the video we see how normal people need to make their every day things.

January 16, 2012 6:43 AM
cayetana m said:

I think that is good what we have done about what do we have that they don't have and we should learn more about it. Because those people don't have access to internet it's more difficult for her to make contact with us.

January 16, 2012 6:48 AM


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