In Primary Schools which have integrated IT into their curriculum, a cetral venue is important in order to enable teachers to send snmall groups of pupils there quickly!

Sorry about typos! I meant – central and small!

I wish the rural schools we support had choices like these!

With tips such as these, it’s no wonder that computer labs in the schools in the Western Cape are being envied by other provinces.

Just one additional building feature: prefab buildings with wooden floors on stilts should be avoided as a ICT venue. Resonons vary from adverse weather condition to burglary factors.

Albie

I agree with Albie. If a school is housed in a prefab, it does not bode well for Interactive Whiteboards with DVPs either. Too much vibrations, even at the slightest movement.

I always had my doubts about media centres. My experience is that the space is not always effectively utilised with the library section always standing idle. I’ve also seen cases where one class comes in for reseach (library) and on the other side (lab) a teacher tries to teach another class and finds the reseaching group to be a desturbance. I guess it can work well if a class is split in two and the teacher manage both groups working in the two sections. I still need to see it work well in practice.