<p>Irene Jebungei is our school lead educator in Chepyuan Primary School.</p>

School Lead Educator

<p>Despite our school, Chepyuan, being the most rural TechLit school, we have specialists from Mogotio visiting to teach video production.&nbsp;</p><p>Not many people come from Mogotio to Chepyuan because it’s really difficult to reach. Motorbikes coming to Chepyuan get stuck in the mud and have punctured tires.</p><p>Last week on Thursday, our video specialist, Allan, drove all the way to Chepyuan. That afternoon, he taught the 5th graders how to cut videos and add transitions.</p><p>After class, the pupils were so excited and had many questions. One pupil, named Bowen, told me about his dream to become a gospel musician. Bowen says that the moment he graduates from form 4, the last grade of secondary school, he will use his new video production skills to earn a living as a gospel musician.</p><p>As a teacher, I feel so blessed to directly impact Bowen. Now he believe his dream is possible, and we’re helping him bring it to life.</p>

Dreams Come to Life in Chepyuan - Primary School Lead Educator Irene Jebungei - Students Inspired To Pursue Their Dreams Through Role Model Educators

<p>Students in Chepyuan are very far from many role models they need. Last week, one of my students was shown how he could make money with his dream career.</p>

Dreams Come to Life in Chepyuan

Chepyuan Primary

<p>Nelly Cheboi is a celebrated social entrepreneur, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/nelly-cheboi/?sh=179de9a85764" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forbes 30 under 30</a> honoree, and<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/14/world/education-technology-recycling-kenya-poverty-cnnheroes/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CNN Hero</a>. After growing up in rural Kenya and lifting her family out of poverty, she focused on her community.</p>

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<p>Every Thursday, we all gather around on Zoom to share stories from the classroom. Every educator writes a story to share from their week about student achievement.</p>

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Stories From The Classroom

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Video Production

<p>Allan is a photographer, journalist and the founder of KE Media. With TechLit he inspires students with his passion for video production. Students learn to use video editing software with Allan.</p>

Specialist Educator

<p>Video production is one of the specialties in TechLit Africa. Most of the students love video production. In video production, we use an application called OpenShot, which is easy for students to understand.</p><p>During my visit to Dreams Hills school this week, I came across Faith. She was my co-teacher last term at video production class. She was excited to see me. Their class was to follow next.</p><p>In the OpenShot class, Faith knew how to cut the video using Control-X and knew how to use transitions without me showing her.</p><p>Faith told me that during her break from school, with the help of her parents, she installed the OpenShot app on their desktop. She told me that she spent her break learning from YouTube tutorials.</p>

Digital Skills Outside The Classroom | TechLit Africa

<p>I discovered a student in Dreams Hills school who brought her specialty subject home with her. Her whole family is involved in furthering her studies at home.</p>

Dreams Hills

Digital Skills Outside The Classroom

<p>Stanley is a community developer by profession, and a freelance writer on the side. At Techlit Africa, Stanley has been a school lead educator for many schools, including Logiri Primary and Barrina Primary in and around Mogotio, Kenya.</p>

<h2>Becoming A Producer</h2><p>Video production is one of our&nbsp;specialties in Techlit Africa. You may think that you have to be 18 years or older to become a video producer. That's not true for Barrina school.</p><h2>Inspiring Self-Discovery</h2><p>Meshack, a fourth grader at Barina quickly changed his career to a producer when Allan introduced video production to his class. He was particularly motivated when Allan explained that they too can make cool music videos like the one they see of Dogo and even Diamond, a very famous talent artist from Tanzania. </p><h2>Self-Efficacy Mastery Experiences</h2><p>This nine year old Meshack impressed all his classmates after he cut all the videos and stitched them together to make one amazing video. </p>

Video Production Specialist Allan Kiprono Inspires Young Students To Follow Role Models And Work Hard In Computer Class

<p>A 9-year-old in Barrina school decided that he could become a video producer like his favorite artists. He was so motivated that he learned and taught his whole class how to edit videos.</p>

9-Year-Old Discovers His Potential | TechLit Africa

Barina Primary

9-Year-Old Discovers His Potential

<h2>From Baringo to Mombasa</h2><p>On Monday, I traveled from Mogotio hub to Mombasa hub with <a href="https://techlitafrica.org/team/members/magdaline-korir" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Magda</a>. Our goal was to introduce students there to <a href="https://techlitafrica.org/curriculum/video-production" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video production</a> and <a href="https://techlitafrica.org/curriculum/graphic-design" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">design</a>.</p><blockquote>Our school lead in Victoria Baptist, Mwinyi, had already prepared the students for our arrival.</blockquote><p>When we arrived at Victoria Baptist, one of our two schools in Mombasa, the kids were very excited. Mwinyi, our school lead at Victoria Baptist, had already highlighted to them that a specialist was coming from Baringo.</p><h2>Introducing Video Production</h2><blockquote>The students were prepared with a lot of questions.</blockquote><p>When I introduced myself as a specialist the kids were more excited. When I introduced video production to them, they were really calm and ready to hear what I had to say.</p><p>The students at Victoria Baptist asked a lot of questions:</p><ol><li>How will video production <strong>help them</strong>?</li><li>Why is video production <strong>important</strong>?</li><li>Can they do video production <strong>at home</strong> or <strong>at a higher level</strong>?</li></ol><p>They really liked it when I told them they really could make good videos like they watch on TV. I even got two student teachers to help me run the class.</p><h2>A Self-Teacher Named Fabrin</h2><p>I had a student by the name Fabrin who was outstanding. He was in Grade 4, Group 1. He easily understood what I had taught.</p><blockquote>Fabrin chose to teach the other student what he learned.</blockquote><p>Without me showing him, Fabrin learned how to use a common shortcut, Control-A, to move all the videos at once. Some students like to be the only one with some skill, but Fabrin choose to teach the other students what he learned. He taught his group and even stayed to show the second group in Grade 4.</p><p>Overall, the response to video production in Victoria Baptist was very good. The Mombasa students are just awesome.</p>

Curious Grade 4 Students With Many Questions | Class 4 Students Self-Teaching | Teaching Video Production In Mombasa | Baringo To Mombasa

<p>On Monday, I traveled from Mogotio hub to Mombasa hub with Magda. Our goal was to introduce students there to video production and Graphic Design. Overall, the response to video production in Victoria Baptist was very good. The Mombasa students are just awesome.</p>

Questions and Self-Teaching in Mombasa | TechLit Africa

Victoria Baptist

Questions and Self-Teaching in Mombasa

<h2>Speicalists Coming To Victoria Baptist</h2><p>Yesterday in our school, Victoria Baptist, we received&nbsp;a specialist, Allan, who came and thought a new skill, Video Production. Indeed the reaction of the students was so exciting when they heard that were going to be thought video production.</p><h2>Class Champions</h2><p>What was more exciting is that two of the kids, named Fabri and Victor, quickly grasped the concept so they went around the class and showed the other students how it is done. For the first time the students were asking a lot of questions.</p><h2>Inspired to Study Hard</h2><p>After the classes, during the break time, one 9-year-old girl named Naomi, who is a good friend of mine, asked me if she will be able to make gospel songs and make videos for herself. I said yes and I told her to take her classes very serious and put more efforts to the subjects she is not good at. So she also asked if she can come to the computer lab during her free time like breaks and during lunch. I said she could.</p>

Students In Victoria Baptist Primary Learn New Digital Skills With Video Production Lessons And Discover Passions Inspiring Them To Studying Hard

<p>I am the school lead of Victoria Baptist primary school. The students were very excited to receive a specialist to teach Video Production. When Allan came to introduce them, two students helped lead the class and one girl Naomi found her calling.</p>

Inspired To Study Hard in Victoria Baptist Primary

Inspired To Study Hard in Victoria Baptist

<p>Milka is our school lead educator in Saint Mary's Primary in Mogotio, Kenya.</p>

<h2>Oriana Loves Videos</h2><p>Oriana, a Grade 5, Group B student, in Saint Mary's seems to love video production so much. Every time she entered the lab, she opened OpenShot, our video editing application, by herself. I have been seed her do this several classes in a raw, which is a record for video production.</p><h2>Becoming Well-Rounded</h2><p>I wanted her to gain in all lessons, so I told her the importance of the other lessons like Audio Production, Coding and Graphic Design. I did not want her to be left behind in other lesson that could also be useful.</p><p>After I told her the importance of other subjects, she promised to become more well-rounded, which is perfect. The next class I will be coaching and observing to make sure she has not been left behind and she balances all&nbsp;the lessons.</p>

A 5th grader in Saint Mary's really likes video production. Every time she comes to computer class, she immediately opens OpenShot, our video editing application. I'm advising her to become well-rounded, because I'm worried she'll be left behind in other subjects.

<p>A 5th grader in Saint Mary's really likes video production. Every time she comes to computer class, she immediately opens OpenShot, our video editing application. I'm advising her to become well-rounded, because I'm worried she'll be left behind in other subjects.</p>

Well-Rounded Digital Literacy | TechLit Africa

Saint Mary's

Well-Rounded Digital Literacy

<p>There was a boy in Class 7, Group B by the name Lin Ekaru. During the video production session where Allan was teaching them an introduction to OpenShot, Lin was struggling very hard to learn.</p><p>Then the second day, the boy came to seek permission from me so that he can join the other pupils who were being taught in the next lesson by Allan. Then I let the boy in, so that he can improve in video production and perfect it.</p><p>Surprisingly&nbsp;the boy ends up teaching other students on how to drag the video, divide the screen and to create an account. Everybody was shouting his name "<strong>Lin! Lin! Lin! Kuja nionyeshe hapa.</strong>”</p>

Class 7 Student in Saint Mary's Primary School Takes A Second Try at Learning Video Editing with OpenShot and Becomes Start Pupil in Computer Class

<p>A Class 7 student struggled in an introductory lesson this week, but after asking to join another group for a second try, he became the star pupil.</p>

Second Try at Video Production

<h2>Introducing Tiezo, Grade 3</h2><p>Teizo, a grade 3A student, made the video production class great today for other students who were seeing it as hard.</p><h2>Starting Video Production</h2><p>Since Allan, their video production teacher, was not there to teach video production to grade 3A, I explained to them to see whether they still remember what they were taught on the previous day by Allan.</p><p>I told the class that the first one to create the video will help the rest of the students who don't understand.</p><h2>Leading Grade 3</h2><p>Tieza was doing her work perfectly. She made the rest of the students enjoy the lessons and love video production. She taught her friend Sarah, which was amazing and then they both became teachers.</p><p>Therefore the video production class became interesting, where I had two teachers operating the class. Many students understood the lesson, which was good and very impressive.</p>

Tiezo Learns To Edit Videos in TechLit Computer Class and Teaches Classmates | Specialty Lessons in Video Production

<p>Teizo, a grade 3A student, made the video production class great today for other students who were seeing it as hard. Many students understood the lesson, which was good and very impressive.</p>

Grade 3 Student Leads Computer Class

Tiezo Leads Computer Class

<p>Tyler Cinnamon is a American programmer and entrepreneur. He started TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi in 2018 to disrupt poverty with used IT devices.</p>

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<p>Open Shot is a video editor used in TechLit classes.</p>

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