Amoa College is the first School in Savaii
that has been registered to use SITAs ELearning platform on the 14th
May 2020. The Association was doing virtual meetings and trainings with some of
the schools prior to visiting Savaii to provide further workshops for Teachers
and year 13 students. Amoa College session was joined in by Mataevave College
and the EFKS Vocational and Technical College. With the benefits of Technology
we were able to have Leififi College and Avele College joining the same
training from Apia.
Since we already have the technology
available in Savaii, SITA believes we can utilize this by assisting the
teachers and our children to continue quality education despite their
locations. We have to acknowledge the main Telecommunications Companies role in
supporting this program especially VodaFone who is providing free data for
Teachers and students, internet routers for our technical support Team and most
importantly is enabling our online trainings url or address elearning.sita.ws as zero data access. A student don’t
need data to access the SITAs ELearning classrooms as long as the phone is on.
Digicel has also shown interest in this project and will join us at a later
stage because at the end of the day we want to reach out to everyone who uses
our platform.
Today the 15th May 2020, The
Minister of Communication, Information Technology afioga Afamasaga Rico Tupai
presented the keynote address for the second School Itu o Tane College in Savaii
who is now register to use our platform. His Honorable points out the
importance of the Governments vision to utilized technology and get ready for
Digital transformation. We now have an equal playing field for all schools in
Upolu and Savaii. Therefore, it is very unlikely for students to miss a class
as they now able to access quality education and Technology makes things easier
for Teachers and students. It is very important for students to use the
opportunity wisely and spend more time in learning than social media. He concludes
in thanking the principals of schools who joined in Savaii for making use of
the opportunity and the President of SITA, Executive and members for developing
this ELearning platform.
We now sees the importance of adapting to
Digital transformation as Universities uses these online platforms and it is a
good opportunity for year 13 students to educate and prepare now because it
will be very beneficial for them in the future if they move to the other level in
education at NUS or USP. Our Teachers will add another important skills and dimension
to their teaching capabilities.
Our SITA Team is working during our free
time and late hours to provide support for free and the platform is available
to schools without any costs to them. SITA absorbs all the costs in regards to
security and cloud hosting for this Community Project and it is why the
association was established not only to develop our ICT profession but to give
back to our people.
Vaiala Beach School in Upolu is the first
primary school who now comes on Board and their senior classes will start soon.
To date we now have 7 schools registered and we have to thank all the Principals of the schools who now come on board to our ELearning platform for their vision and commitment to continue quality educations for their students.
