The DfE & The TSIA

The Trans-Atlantic Schools Innovation Alliance was a Department for Education project that sought to connect schools in the UK with schools in the USA for mutual exchange of information, ideas and expertise.

Gemin-i set up a TSIA ‘Tribe’ community in order to facilitate teacher-teacher collaboration on educational materials and work-plans, provide a hub of interactive TSIA project activities and action research information, and enable students to interact with jointly produced learning materials.

The ability to engage in video conference calls, jointly edit documents and share files with the community were key to the running of the project and Gemin-i’s moderation service meant that teachers could involve their students in the collaborative teaching and learning process online.

Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF)

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation uses education and multi-faith action to address extreme poverty. The Foundation required an online community website for their ‘Face to Faith’ project.

Gemin-i set up a Face-To-Faith Tribe community to enable TBFF members around the world to communicate with each other via safe and moderated discussion forums, internal e-mail and instant chat services; and to access a host of Face To Faith content to inspire their discussions.  They even linked their network with Gemin-i’s Rafi.ki community in order to enable their members to engage in interfaith dialogue with thousands of Rafi.ki members around the world.

The service that Gemin-i offered, in terms of e-safety, content and community management, and technical assistance meant that TBFF could be as ‘hands-off’ or ‘hands-on’ as they wished, with the assurance that their community would always be looked after.

Cambridge International Examinations

CIE were looking for a way to launch their new ‘Global Perspectives’ iGCSE with a bang.

Gemin-i used their online learning community, Rafi.ki, to organise a ‘Global Perspectives’ event, which took the form the form of a cross-time zone lesson-plan relay involving teachers all over the world delivering iGCSE lesson plans in tandem.  The one-day event was a great success and launched CIE’s iGCSE programme in style.

The Enterprise Education Trust

Enterprise Education empowers young people to realise their potential through business and enterprise.

Gemin-i has provided Enterprise Education with an ‘Achievers International’ forum on the Rafi.ki site, to promote discussion around the trust’s ‘Achievers International’ project.  A Tribe forum on the Gemin-i’s Rafi.ki site is providing Enterprise Education with opinions and programme suggestions from thousands of young people around the world – and increasing visibility amongst potential participants in the process!

SIREN

The conservation education charity, SIREN, needed a way to bring an interactive element to their project materials and required a low-cost and hassle-free way to disseminate these materials globally.

Gemin-i was able to help SIREN adapt their educational resources for online use, add exciting interactive and multi-media components and disseminate these materials to thousands of students and educators worldwide. This optimised student and teacher engagement with the resources, enabled SIREN to collect completed project-work and participation statistics, and all the while complying with SIREN’s environment and conservation principles by cutting down on printed project packs.

Our Tribes partnership programme is all about providing the technology, expertise and network of schools to help other organisations and companies working with educators and young people to establish or enhance their online initiatives.  We aim to do this in a number of different ways, from hosting partners’ project resources on our online learning community, Rafi.ki, to building brand new online community websites for those who want their own version of Rafi.ki!

Our Tribe projects are varied and each has developed in a unique manner as Gemin-i itself has grown and transformed.  To find out how join our family of Tribes, click on the ‘Inquire’ tab, or email tribes@gemin-i.org

Or, to see examples of Gemin-i Tribe partnerships with organisations such as the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and Cambridge International Examinations, click the ‘Case Studies‘ tab.

Salary: £43,000 per annum

Closing Date: 4th July 2011, 10am

To lead the development and delivery of the Rafi.ki and Kidogo online community platforms and related programmes and resources in line with Gemin-i’s vision and strategy, ensuring the staff team is managed and child safety procedures are developed and implemented.

As a member of the senior management team, to contribute to the overall strategic direction and development of Gemin-i.

Salary: £30,000-£34,000 pro-rata

With a new version of our award-winning software recently launched, we now want to build on this service we provide to partner charities and we are recruiting a Partnerships Development Manager to lead and develop this exciting new income stream. The post-holder will work closely with the Director of Development and Director of Programmes to develop these ideas into a comprehensive business plan and then roll it out with partner charities.

• increase awareness of HIV and AIDS among young people
• improve understanding of the challenges within different communities
• facilitate discussion and learning across cultures
• mobilise collaborative action on HIV and AIDS

The project will be formally launched to educators and young people in January 2011.

If you or your organisation is interested in finding out more about the project or would like to discuss opportunities for working together in this area, please contact Jenny Owen at jenny[at]gemin-i[dot]org

This project is funded by the European Union

The Sumo Run

Whether you’re in training for the London 2012 Olympics or you just like dressing up at the weekends, the Sumo Run is your newest hybrid of serious exercise and self-expression. Except, of course, it’s not very serious… To find out more please visit www.sumorun.com.
 

The Sucata Run and Sucata Split

The Sucata events are bargain basement banger rallies where teams of up to 4 people drive to Portugal or Croatia over 4 days in bangers costing no more than £250. They take place over the Spring and Summer Bank Holiday weekends and culminate at the breath taking beaches on the European coast… To find out more about the Sucata Run please visit www.sucatarun.com and Sucata Split here.