MY PROFILE
Corine
Ms Corine LaFont – Lead Consultant/Project Manager is a Trinidadian
who lives with her family in Jamaica for the past 12 years.
She holds a Masters of Science in Human Resource Development and a
first degree in Sociology and is a certified Business Resiliency
Specialist with the Business Resilience Certification Consortium
International (www.brcci.org). Corine is a trained Project Manager
having been trained by the University of Boston through its education
affiliate, Smythe Witter and Associates and M.I.N.D. She has managed a
number of projects and has written proposals which have had the
opportunity to be short listed and accepted by a number of
international agencies.
She has had the opportunity to work with and for Small Businesses in
Jamaica through the Small Businesses Association of Jamaica and
successfully coordinated their participation in the JEA/JMA’s Expo
2008 at the National Stadium.
She has five years teaching experience in the Secondary education
system in Trinidad and Tobago and continued in an Administrative
function at the Ministry of Education, Jamaica, on the Curriculum
Evaluation Project under the Primary Education Improvement Project II
with the Inter-American Development Bank.
She is currently one of the resource members on the E Learning Jamaica
(EL-Jam) project which aims to improve education in Jamaica’s high
school system through the use of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT’s)
As a consultant, Corine has coordinated and managed a number of
projects which most recently includes the further Development and
launch of the CARIBISNET (Caribbean Investment and Support Network)
for BSO's within the region. This project was funded by the EU through
Caribbean Export and CDE.
Steve Foerster
Salisbury, Dominica and the Washington, D.C. area in the States. I
spent three years as Director of E-Learning at Marymount University
just outside D.C., but left that to write and consult on distance
learning and higher education about half a year ago. I have an MA in
Educational Technology Leadership and a BS in Information Systems.
I think we can all probably come up with ideas for how we'd proceed if
we were faced with this sort of cataclysm in our own areas, and some
of those ideas may end up working well in the context of a reemerging
Haiti. What I'm particularly keen to know, however, is:
(1) What the condition of the faculty, staff, and administration are,
i.e., how many have survived, and of those how many of them plan to
remain in those posts.
(2) If they're as yet in a frame of mind to think about it, what they
want to do to rebuild. It's good for us to have suggestions, but it's
their system, and ultimately our goal should be to help them rebuild
to their specs, not ours.
(3) What the condition of the schools there is, e.g., whether there's
any surviving physical infrastructure at all, and if so what it is,
and if not what the prospects are for what can be built and when. I
ask because, for example, I'd be willing to ask my old employer for
their used PCs to ship down, but there's no point if there's nowhere
to put them.
I realize that the telecom situation probably makes this impossible,
but are there any Haitians on this list as yet? Or any Haitian
educators who happened to be abroad when the earthquake hit?
-=Steve=-
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Stephen H. Foerster
http://hiresteve.com
http://hiresteve.com/blog
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