The real work starts
When this great time has come and gone
The hype is no more there
The work of training must go on
No effort may one spare
Facilitators now must guide
The teachers to e-goals
Advice and help they do provide
Support all willing souls
They pay a visit once a week
Or more as needs dictate
Much time is spent – of e to speak –
The effort truly great
They mentor teachers as they train
And do a skills transfer
When they themselves are under strain
To others can refer
The vendors may some training give
On their specific tools
This does the training load relieve
A blessing to the schools
Within the school there even may
Be teachers who possess
Some I T skills they could relay
To fast track the process
The goal for labs that must be met
Aim for a stable state
A good time table must be set
With labels for each date
The lab’s time table must dovetail
– Must match – with all the rest
So that good order may prevail
And P Cs yield their best
Make sure that ample lesson time
Is allocated for
The subject that is viewed as prime
The one that forms the core
Then look at all the time slots left
Available for use
Time’s precious – no child leave bereft –
No minute may one lose
There may be time for language skills
To be improved by all
Perhaps research the schedule fills
Some time for facts to trawl
A good time table put in place
Could take a week or so
If absent – schools will chaos face –
To lab the kids won’t go
When school time is accounted for
Do not let things go slow
At end of school day – time for more –
Kids still to labs should go
Each evening or afternoon
Lab hours can extend
Use all the minutes opportune
The kids’ poor grades to mend
There’s Sunday and there’s Saturday
When school doors may be closed
On these days don’t turn kids away
If they’re I T disposed
Poem Index
- I Why the rooster crows
- II The good old days
- III The gloom sets in
- IV The exodus
- V The first rays of light
- VI The light bearers
- VII Distribution of light
- VIII One size does not fit all
- IX Planning to let the light shine
- X Room structure
- XI Security
- XII Power and light
- XIII Furnishings
- XIV Airconditioning
- XV Focal point of light
- XVI Technology options
- XVII Educational software
- XVIII Cost of light
- XIX Sustainability
- XX Light at the end of the tunnel
- XXI The first shimmers of light
- XXII The e-plan
- XXIII LAN administration
- XXIV Facilitation
- XXV The launch
- XXVI The real work starts
- XXVII Light for the community
- XXVIII Light for the learners