Have a look at our poster "Practice Conservation Agriculture" available in English, Xhosa and Zulu! |
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Our Posters are primarily instructional products as opposed to being limited to awareness creation. They are presented as enabling resources to facilitate UNESCO's Four Pillars of Education, and are designed to serve two specific purposes:
As printed products they can be used in classrooms to allow 5-10 pupils to
sit around the poster to either follow a teacher's presentation or to
motivate group discussion among learners. The Posters are usually printed
in A2 size so that they could, for example, fit on the back of a door -
often the most convenient place in mud wall classrooms... They are printed
on heavy duty paper and laminated so that they could also be annotated using
white board markers. The top two corners have metal re-enforced grommets so
that the poster can be hooked onto nails without requiring other kinds of
adhesives. A plank nailed to a tree would therefore be one way of using the
posters outdoors. Read & see more...
Secondly, the printed posters may also be viewed as printed web pages
inasmuch as each poster contains links to extensive, ancillary information
available in the EcoPort database. The poster itself exists as an
interactive, hypertext table in EcoPort where it becomes a dynamic
interactive web resource that functions like a 'home page' for the poster
topic. Thus, a poster displayed on a wall in an Internet Café or on the wall
in a school's computer room, would firstly present a topic of
possible inquiry and exploration - a useful 'prompt' because 'where to
go' is often a blocking point for novice Internet users. Secondly, the
poster would, through the structured, guiding links, which are active in the
poster's digital home page, function like a rough map to guide users through
the n-dimensional knowledge space supporting the poster. Read
& see more...
Perhaps the most useful and unique feature of our posters and their
respective, ancillary digital universes of further knowledge on the poster
topic, is the way that the posters are explicitly integrated
with the National Curriculum Statements (NCS) issued by the National
Department of Education. Thus, a learner could start from an item of
information on the poster and work back to see the multiple 'points of
entry' that such a 'bottom-up' perspective provides on the NCS framework.
Alternatively, a teacher could start with a subject and its Learning
Outcomes (LOs) specified in the NCS and (i) develop/encounter lesson plans
as well as (ii) come to grips with the Assessments Standards associated with
the LOs. Read & see more...
Finally, the posters contain 'primary information' the substance of what we
learn when we become knowledgeable; see comparison of information
versus knowledge. It also explains methods and procedures;
things to investigate and do. However, the educational processes that take
place in schools and training programmes, require and involve
institutional, operational and administrative frameworks that define
the business of 'schooling'. We do this at our EcoMoodle website - a
system and service devoted to courseware, assessments and qualifications.
Read & see more...
You can view a sample poster page here:
Practice Conservation Agriculture (ID 78415)