Dadamac Day 2009 was a new and exciting extension of our annual online celebration. Usually it is pretty much "a family affair" - reuniting people who already know each other. This time we widened our reach, both in the UK and in rural Nigeria, so there were extra guests at the celebration.
We have launched our discussion forum. Now it will be easy for people to join in discussions here. Now dadamac.net can gradually become an active online space for the growing Dadamac community.
To join in all you have to do is go to the discussion forum link choose the discussion topic that interests you and add any comments you like. You can reach the discussion forum link from any page; it is under the heading "get involved".
The idea of dadamac.net is that is should be an "online home/office/clubroom/study-space/whatever-we-need" for the growing dadamac community (which welcomes newcomers). We started off by "preparing the reception area" i.e. the home page and such like (this area needs more work - fewer words, more pictures - but is well under way).
Dadamac Day is an annual celebration which is held online and at Fantsuam Foundation.
Dadamac Day grew from TT-online, which is part of the Teachers Talking (TT) course. TT-online was a bit of seredipity that came about because Pam habitually runs to the Internet for help. When she sought help for planning TT various bandwith-rich people got involved, and so TT-Online and Dadamac Day were born. Dadamac Day is something that has gradually evolved as part of a wider picture.
When John and Pam started planning TT they were simply using emails, and copying in a few key people. Then Pam decided she wanted some more up to date information to feed into the course, so she set up her first online group - a yahoo group. She invited some of her online contacts to join the group, John brought in key contacts from Fantsuam Foundation, the group took off, planning began, and the seeds of Dadamac Day had been sown..
This week we had the first planning and practice meeting for Dadamac Day (DD). The DD team, Chollom and Alheri (in Nigeria) and Nikki and Pam (in UK), e-met through one of Dadamac's usual typed Skype conferences.
The date and time are agreed -Saturday November 7th 10:00 GMT, 11:00 Nigerian time, 13:00 East Africa Time.
