I started life as an archaeologist before retraining in IT and have wide experience of work in the voluntary / not for profit and continuing education sectors in Scotland where I am usually based. This has included database design, hardware support, software support, website design and tuition.
From 2009 - 2010 I was in Nairobi, Kenya as Assistive Technology Tutor with the Kenyan Society for the Blind. Then came two years in Ethiopia, working with the Addis Ababa HIV / AIDS Prevention and Control Office and the Ethiopian Midwives Association. My most recent stint abroad was another two years in Papua New Guinea as Provincial Capacity Building ICT Advisor on a United Nations Development Program / Ministry of Finance project. For now I am back in Scotland and a part time Open University tutor.
You can visit my website at http://tinyurl.com/visimpscot .
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Thanks for this Dawn. I have had to sit / sleep through a great many workshops and presentations, undoubtedly the most useful was on 'Writing plain English'. Of course everyone thinks that they write plain English, as I did, but it takes practise.
This is interesting Anurag, my first programming language was Pascal and the good coding habits that it forced me into have stuck over time. However, somebody later remarked to me that this was actually a weakness for a teaching language as it gave students no choice, rather than letting them see why those good programming habits were preferable to the alternatives. This is a valid argument but I am still grateful for that initial touch of discipline.