eVision-Design is selected to build training for Child Fund’s ATLAS project

ATLAS project Blog

The most difficult thing about starting your own business, well to me anyway, is marketing. Do a web search and you’ll come up with so many hits you won’t know where to start. And how do you tell what works and what doesn’t? Everyone thinks their method is the best – at least that’s what they want you to believe so you’ll buy their product. It’s all quite intimidating.
When we started eVision-Design a year ago, it turns out that one of the best things that we did for marketing our service was to enter the Articulate Guru awards. We didn’t win, but we did receive an honorable mention and our work is featured on their Community page. We’ve received many inquiries as a result, several of which have turned into clients!
So when we read about the eLearning Guild and LINGOs sponsoring a similar competition, 2010 Global Giveback, with the winners being featured at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando. I immediately checked it out. LINGOs promotes sustainable global development by increasing the skills of workers that deliver programs around the world. Because of limited resources, the key to reaching those workers is online learning. There were some really intriguing opportunities, and being a teacher, I gravitated towards Child Fund’s ATLAS project . ATLAS stands for Active Teaching and Learning in Schools. I contacted ChildFund, and after an interview, eVision-Design and Ioanna Fergadiotou were selected to be the team that will help Child Fund develop this project. Ioanna is an Instructional Designer in Athens, Greece. We are thrilled to be working with a colleague in the eLearning community. Working digitally as we do, we sometimes feel a bit isolated. The community forums such as Articulate, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter do provide some contact, but actually working with Ioanna, and seeing a different process has expanded our horizons in a very positive way.
The Active Teaching & Learning Approaches in Schools (or ATLAS) Project is a partnership between Christian Children Fund-Zambia, Child Fund New Zealand and the International Reading Association.
ATLAS seeks to improve the quality of teaching and learning through:
• In-service teachers training in using child-centered, participatory, active methods of teaching
• Teachers exchange program with New Zealand teachers
• Professional development activities: development of a coaching program and creation of Teachers Quality Circles (TQC) to allow teacher to share and reflect on their practice and support each other’s progress in applying new methodologies.
We have been tasked with designing an eLearning course that will supplement the existing teacher training.
We’ve had several conference calls between the eLearning team and the various members of the ATLAS project. That in itself has been quite an undertaking as we are all scattered across the globe. Trying to coordinate those calls required some members meeting very early and very late in the day. Darla Wigginton (of eVision-Design) has developed a look and feel that is engaging and fun. We feel that intriguing graphics provide an environment that draws the learner in. Ioanna is now developing the storyboard which will provide the content and flow for the course. Soon that storyboard will come back to eVision and we will begin building out the graphics and interactions.
Well, that’s where we are right now. I’ll be continuing this thread as we progress on this journey. We are so honored to have been chosen to be a part of this very important project – bringing quality education to all the world’s children.

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Tags: ATLAS, Child Fund, eLearning, eVision-Design, Global Giveback