Completed
- Have become familier with the issues faced by teachers in integrating ICT into the curriculum, through reading and talking with teachers and so doing lost a lot of my naivety.
- Required background reading into issues surrounding ICT in schools; those faced by the school as a whole as well as the organisational issues.
- Required background reading into networking and networking technologies.
- Comprehensive project proposal - available here
- Questionnaires and Interviews at Nyaluza, Graeme, VG, PJ, Mary Waters
- Questionnaires to all schools - waiting for returns from Nombulelo, Khulitso Daniels
- Made some contacts with different people within my field of research
- Satnac Work in Progress Paper - final version available here
- Satnac Paper accepted
- Received word from CSIR on SCPs - project is dead, will have to wait for Satnac to speak to Prof from UDW
- Read some satellite, DSL, ISDN and WiFi papers
- Satnac Presentation
- Questionnaires been given to 12 of the 13 schools -St Andrews is away on holiday and so has not yet been approached
- Third term progress report
- A full paper on wireless communications in South African schools - not available for download as it is not being published quite as yet
- Accepted to go to the 10th TechEd Conference in Pasadena, California, USA - money pending on actually going
- Nombulelo Water Tower up and running
- Poster presented at an Education conference in Ethiopia on our behalf by Lorenzo
- Preliminary stages of Data Analysis
- Investigations into alternative OSS - with the help of Darb -- see the bookmarks page and the interesting links
- Written to ICASA to ask them to consider legalising Wireless on February 1st 2005 for use by schools, etc
- Comprehensive project report for the fourth term
- Discovered possible problems with wireless connection due to Fresnel diffraction and interference
- Study of Powerline communications and HP 441
- Study of Ubuntu and OpenLab from Direqlearn
- Written a paper for the WCCE conference, waiting to hear if I have been accepted or not
- Proposed Time line for next year's progress
- Summary of Write-up structure
- Progress Report for the first term of year two
- WCCE paper accepted - to be converted into a Poster for the conference
- All ICT in education, LEO/GEO, and VSAT papers read
- Interviews with Graeme, Ntsika, TEM, DSG, St Andrews, Kingswood - all schools have been completed except for Ben M and Khulitso Daniels
- Telkom VSAT has arrived and been installed
- Found appropriate satellite alligning equipment - UNAOHM - passed on the information to Darb and am waiting for him to get the order through
- Received and worked with some stats from the DoE on the state of ICT in Education in the Eastern Cape
- Ordered the new SCW equipment
- Attended the ICT roadmap workshop in Johannesburg with Darb, on Wireless and Satellite communications in South Africa
- Re-ordered my illusive Amazon books, lets hope they make it here soon!
- Full Paper for the SATAC 2005 conference
- SATNAC 2005 Presentation
- New Amazon books have arrived!
- New SCW equipment arrived! In the process of installing and running tests
- Submitted "chapter 4" paper for possible inclusion in a refereed journal
- SCW installation completed
- Mary Waters TuxLab installed
- WCCE paper
- Posters for the WCCE have been completed. Mine, Nombeko's and Nikiwe's.
- Progress report for the end of the first semester of 2005
- Telkom VSAT Internet account up and running
- First part of the Literature review for the thesis, Chapter 2 - looking at connectivity methods and telecommunications, is mostly complete
- All schools completely finished off - transcripts of the interviews sent to them for member checking and then returned to us
- SCW testing completed
- Nombulelo and Mary Waters all connected to the SCW project
- Data analysis of network test data
- Implementation of alternative technologies - lab testing only
- 2 Papers at SATNAC and one poster-paper WCCE
- Write up of project for submission in full completion of a Master of Science degree
