The Science Nomad - Behold My Camels - We are going to Indoenisa



The adaptations of the camel to its arid extremes are legendary. It carries for the nomad much that would otherwise be left behind. They reach with ease those locations that other modes of transport would never even consider.

It is fitting then, that This Science Nomad will be using Camels on the next EDventure.

Indonesia , Australia's most populous neighbor, has almost 1 million teachers across its 30 plus provinces, and thousands of islands. While I have worked with their science centres, helping encourage the establishment of the Indonesian network of Science centers, I have not had the chance to work with many of the teachers there. One teacher known to many across the world, is the energetic, polyglotic passionate educator Ines Puspita.

In addition to teaching at an international school, supporting community market gardens and sustainability programs, Ines leads a project to help support the teaching of science across the diverse and  dispersed corners of the country. With Ines as guide I will be taking my camels out for a run this Friday.

Behold My C.A.M.E.L.S



For this Science Nomad - the Camels in question is really C.A.M.E.L.S
Camera And Microphone Expansive Learning System.

With Ines's help I will be piggy-backing my Camels onto her online learning platform, that she has been using to reach, recruit and support teachers from across the Indonesian Archipelago. Introducing myself to the community of teachers, and trialing the system, and my Bahasa.

Before we put the poster out, we already had 75% of the systems capacity booked up. lets see how the Camels behave. I'll report back.. if You don't here from me.. follow the camel droppings.





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