Overview

EDUCATION IN ACTION 2-Venture is an ambitious and exciting walking expedition through the goldfields region of Western Australia. A satellite-linked, human-powered unit moving as a highly interactive, educational project. The EiA2 experience will combine the thrill of an authentic expedition with expansive and content-rich educational potential.

The best way to learn about a country is to walk through it and live in it. The EiA2 expedition represents the most effective way to do this. Our expedition cart is totally self-sufficient - there are no backup vehicles. This not only enables us to travel almost anywhere, in the true style of the explorers of the 19th and 20th centuries, but also provides an authentic and comprehensive 'back-to-basics' Australian bush experience.

Concept:

The EIA-Venture is a fun, exciting way to introduce IT, computers and the internet to those not familiar with their use in the teaching environment. For those already using computers and the internet, it's a great reason to use the internet as a resource and learning tool. The expedition will function as an adventurous and stimulating visual learning and motivational tool, aiming to integrate IT with traditional subjects and blurring the boundaries between subjects normally taught separately. It is discovery and thematic learning-based, teaches high technology, communications and writing skills, gives students an insight to the outside world and encourages interaction. It will stimulate thinking about the world beyond the classroom and build confidence in those who join us on this incredible venture.

Content:

• The Great EiA2 will be the actual journey, with a daily transfer of information via com-link - transferring GPS readings, expedition and log data, travel diary and the social, historical and cultural characteristics of areas we pass through. We will share with you our progress as well as expedition triumphs and tragedies and answer all questions asked. You will see first hand what we had to eat, who we met and just about everything to do with an expedition on foot moving across an ancient land.
  
• EiA2 Live will be actual visits to schools to meet the students and teachers before and after the expedition.
  
• Interactive Online Forum will be a place where you can chat and make new friends with other folks following the expedition. This will provide schools with an internet location and the chance to meet, exchange ideas, collaborate on projects, ask questions and chat about the expedition. It will broaden anyone's horizon's and give you a chance to chat with a hugely diverse range of other people.
  
• EiA2 School Presentation is a wonderfully creative project and task that will stimulate thought, questions and assimilation of information in contrast to redundant information gathering. After the trek, we'll supply (to those schools or classes who request it), lots of photos and expedition data that can be used as vehicles for processing and analyzing expedition data and presenting it in a nmber of ways.
  
• EiA2 Venture Modules and Mini-Modules. We are developing a series of educational modules on lots of different topics. They will be general enough so that you can use and implement many of them. Some will be so small that they will be able to be easily integrated with existing lessons or projects - others will be large, major projects.
  
• The Com-Link will be an interactive gateway for communication with the expedition via satellite phone.

Aims:

As well as providing the experiences outlined above for the school children, there is another aim of this walk - that is, to raise money for the children and workers at Okkam Farm / Orphanage in Thailand (pictured left). Click here to read a copy of the latest newsletter from Rev. Alan A. Shepherd of God’s Love & Care Ministries International Inc. where he talks about the children at the school and the desparate situation they are in.

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