Movement Development Program

We are Joost den Hartog and Dennis van Nieuwaal. We are the two Dutch students who are working on the Movement Development Program at the moment. Both of us study Small Business & Retail Management at Avans Hogeschool in Breda. We have been asked to develop the Movement Development Program during our internship period of 5 months in Cape Town.
When we started our internship we went to the Sinenjongo Highschool, this is the school where the pilot of the program started half a year ago. During this pilot two other Dutch students named Mark Koolen and Wim van de Heiden were working on the Movement Development Program. The goal of the program was: “To develop and implement different sport programs at the Sinenjongo High School, within a period of 5 months”.

“We have a perfect plan on paper, but it is not working in reality”, said Pam Robertson, a teacher at the Sinenjongo High school. The program was a success when Mark and Wim were there, but when they left the program is not use anymore.
This problem led to a new project team. This project team will write the Movement Development Program Plan to make the program sustainable.

We have made a lot of progress during our period in Cape Town, we have developed a way to make the programs sustainable, this is by creating a teacher program. With the help of this program we are able to develop the knowledge of the teachers based on sports. One of the most important requirements the project need are the students. We will set up a student foundation to keep a constant amount of students working on the project. The University of Western Cape will also provide the project with third grade students that have to do community work for 250 hours a year. At this moment we have arranged three new Avans students that will develop the program more. Two of them are physic therapist students, they will do the sport programs together with the teachers. The third one is a marketing student, she will take the management part of the project together with a student from the University of Western Cape.

Hi there! Howzit?

Let us introduce ourselves! We are Anouk (Communicatie & Multimedia Design), Stef (Small Business & Retail Management) and Doris (Advanced Business Creation), all 3th year students from Avans University in The Netherlands, interning at Clear Water project in Cape Town, South-Africa. Clear Water is a Dutch foundation “Helder Water”. The foundation is non-profit, it’s main source of income comes from selling bottled water in western countries. With 100% of the net profit Helder Water brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.

Unfortunately, South-Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, the gap between rich and poor is very wide. That is why Clear Water has the ambition to expand to South-Africa and we are here to help make that possible! We will be doing a feasibility research and will be searching for water projects to support. We also have the goal to connect South-African students to the project as well. And we will be looking for new sales channels to position Clear Water on the South-African market.

Now is our fourth week in Cape Town. What an incredibly beautiful and culturally rich country is South Africa! From the Kalahari desert to the green vineyards of Stellenbosch, from the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean up to the big 5. A country where 11 official languages ​​are spoken and therefore a country with many cultural differences. A country with great foods, friendly people and (most of the time) good weather.That is South Africa. A country that has so much to offer. Therefore, we are very excited that we have the opportunity to spend four more months here!

We hope that we can use the knowledge that we have gained at school over the last two years, for this project. The past few weeks we have been busy with getting the assignments clear and planning project activities. We have had a lot of contact with our supervisor, because we had to draft our project contract. Last week we had our first meeting with a Professor from the University of Cape Town (UCT), UCT is one of the potential partners for Clear Water.
The upcoming weeks, further research will be done. We are also going to search for waterprojects, and visit High Schools and Universities

Our main goal is to complete the Clear Water project with good results. That requires discipline and a good motivation. We are working hard to, eventually, bring Clear Water to South-Africa and help the people in need.

Our expectations are that time will pass by even faster than it already has. We are headed towards the South-African summer now, so there will be a lot of thing we can do!

   

Time to say goodbye

Na 13 maanden hard werken, stopte het daadwerkelijk ondersteunen van de leraren op de Sinenjongo High School op vrijdag 29 mei. Nadat we klaar waren met de laatste Life Orientation les, werd ons gevraagd nog even te blijven. De reden liet zich raden; alle leraren van de SHS, alsmede de principal, hadden een braai voor ons op school georganiseerd. Nog eenmaal zouden we met z’n allen genieten van het Zuid Afrikaanse vlees en salades , die wederom verrukkelijk smaakten.

Tijdens het eten in het Life Science lokaal, kreeg elke leraar de gelegenheid een woordje te spreken. We werden uitgebreid bedankt voor alle inspanningen die we geleverd hadden, en zouden een speciaal plaatsje krijgen in de schoolgeschiedenis werd ons verteld. Leraren bedankte ons voor onze open houding, en voor de vrije tijd die we met sommige van hen hadden doorgebracht.
Met name Prudence, Wilson, David, Mr Welemtsha & Mr Ntyontyo hebben ons uitgebreid bedankt.
Nadat de leraren aan het woord waren geweest, werden we ook bedankt door Ms. Masa, hoofd van Life Orientation. De Raad van Sport wilde ook nog een woordje tot ons richten, alsmede Ms Nopote, het schoolhoofd. Na het eten was het moment van afscheid dan toch daar, maar niet voordat er een uitgebreide fotoshoot plaatsvond met alle leraren en natuurlijk onze Beetle.
Leerlingen kwamen vaarwel zeggen, waarna Wim en ik met een knoop in onze maag wegreden. Dit was de laatste keer dat we de leerlingen zouden zien, aangezien de examens voor de leerlingen voor de deur stonden. Sommige leraren zouden we een dag later nog zien, ze wilden ons wederom meenemen voor een dagje wijnproeverij.

Op zaterdag 2 juni werden we door Wilson Bope meegenomen op de wijnproeverij. Hij zou ons het echte Zuid Afrika laten zien en niet de commerciële wijnproeverijen die elke toerist bezocht. Zodoende vertrokken we zaterdagmorgen om 10.00 richting het Robinson, zo’n 100 km ten noorden van Kaapstad.  Toevallig was er op dat moment het Wacky Wine Festival, waardoor ons originele plan (rustig wat wijntjes drinken op enkele van de beste wijnboerderijen), wat uitgebreid. Na 6 wijnboerderijen bezocht te hebben, hebben we ons in het feestgedruis van het Wacky Wine Festival gestort. Voor R120 (€10) kochten we een glas, waarmee we onbeperkt wijn op elke wijnboerderij konden drinken die aangesloten was bij het Wacky Wine Festival. De omgeving was indrukwekkend, de wijnen nog meer. Ter afsluiting van onze dag heeft Mark nog een duik genomen in een zwembad vol rode wijn. Na weer opgefrist te zijn, besloten we nog één wijnboerderij te bezoeken, waar in een gigantische loods concerten gegeven werden. Ook daar bleven we weer langer dan gepland, maar tegen die tijd konden weinig dingen ons nog interesseren.
Bovenstaande is zomaar een voorbeeld van wat activiteiten die we met de leraren van de SHS hebben ontplooid. We hebben nog wat andere activiteiten met hen gedaan, maar daar is deze blog niet voor bedoeld.  Goed, even terug naar het project en de SHS.

Op vrijdag 3 juni werd ons werk aan de scriptie onderbroken door David, één van de leraren van school. De principal moest ons dringend zien. Na uitgelegd te hebben dat we hard aan de scriptie aan het werken waren, om die nog enigszins op tijd af te hebben, besloten we toch maar een snel bezoekje te gaan brengen aan de Sinenjongo. Daar aangekomen werden we wederom feestelijk onthaald, en moesten we ons ditmaal naar het kantoor begeven.
Aldaar kregen we een goed gevulde goodie bag met souvenirs, als dank voor onze inzet voor de Sinenjongo High School. De principal gaf ons beide een hand, en sloot af met een woord van dank. Ze zouden ons nooit vergeten, en we moesten realiseren dat we “een wonder hebben verricht voor de leerlingen van de Sinenjongo High School”. Ze wenste ons het allerbeste, en na nog enkele leraren persoonlijk te hebben bedankt, vertrokken we wederom richting Observatory. Dit was voor Wim het laatste weerzien met de Sinenjongo High School. Mark zou de studenten van de UWC nog rond gaan leiden op school en het community centre.

In de week van 8 juni is er vergaderd met de UWC, Anne Vermaak van de Western Cape Gymnastics Association, Claire van het Bolscher & mezelf. Hier leerde Mark ook Semone en Kirby kennen, welke het project over zouden gaan nemen in juli, na de winterbreak. Duidelijk werd dat Project SHS verder zou gaan onder de noemer Movement Development Program in januari 2016. De Avans en de Universiteit van de Westkaap zouden in samenspraak met het WCGA een conceptmodel gaan ontwikkelen, om zo het project op meerdere scholen (vooral primary schools) uit te kunnen rollen. Semone en Kirby, respectievelijk een afgestudeerde LO lerares en een afgestudeerde Sportmanager, zouden het project op de SHS gaan oppakken, en meerdere studenten bij het project gaan betrekken.

Op woensdag 17 juni heb ik Semone en Kirby rondgeleid op de Sinenjongo High School, en ze laten zien wat ze konden verwachten. Ook heb ik hen naar het Community Centre gebracht, zodat ze een completer beeld van eerder verricht werk & toekomstige mogelijkheden konden krijgen. Na hen rondgeleid te hebben, moest ik snel terug richting Observatory, om mijn laatste spullen te pakken. ’s middags zou ik terugvliegen richting Nederland.

De periode in Kaapstad heeft mijzelf niets dan goeds gebracht. Zelf ben ik in de laatste weken met een aantal personen in contact gekomen, om de mogelijkheden te onderzoeken om daadwerkelijk in Kaapstad aan het werk te gaan. De hele sfeer, het weer en de gemoedelijkheid van de stad spreekt me ontzettend aan.

Dat het project zo goed is gegaan, hadden we nooit durven dromen. In een relatief kort tijdsbestek is het project gigantisch gegroeid en hebben we een flink netwerk kunnen opbouwen. We zijn beiden dan ook erg trots op het feit dat het project overgenomen zal worden, en onder een andere naam verder gaat. We realiseren ons dat we de basis hebben gelegd voor het project wat vanaf januari 2016 zal gaan lopen. Mensen overladen ons met complimenten over hetgeen we bereikt hebben in de afgelopen 4.5^e maand.

Persoonlijk zou ik Kaapstad aan iedereen aanraden. Het is een erg Westerse stad, in een gigantisch mooie omgeving. Er is voor ieder wat wils en je zult altijd tijd tekort komen om alles te kunnen zien.
Voor degene die de beslissing maken om richting Kaapstad te gaan: je gaat er de tijd van je leven hebben, dat is gegarandeerd!

Groet, Mark en Wim

Last weeks in Cape Town

HI guys!

They say time flies when you’re having fun, and yes it did. Only 2 weeks left before we are leaving back home to The Netherlands again. Time went really fast because we did a lot in and around Cape Town and also because we actually worked really hard. We were able to decide on our own working hours but we did stick to working 5 days per week 8 to 9 hours a day. Unfortunately last month we worked evening hours and weekends as well, but that might be the downside of writing your thesis. So probably in one of our previous blogs it is explained that we are researching the possibility for Clear Water to expand to South-Africa. Last weeks we had lots of meetings and brainstorm sessions with potential partners as well as potential customers. The fun side of working at a co space office is that we get the chance to meet many people who work in all kind of fields and have different backgrounds. This gives us the chance to receive feedback and ideas from different angles which is actually pretty cool! Next week we will give a presentation in Cape Town about our findings and recommendation to the Clear Water foundation and in the beginning of July we will present our findings to the owner of Clear Water in The Netherlands.

Beside graduating we enjoy our social life here a lot! Impossible to compare this to our life in The Netherlands. Last weeks we went to see a rugby match which was pretty exciting even though we didn’t understood the game at all(haha, pretty sad actually), went for dinner a lot ( I hope we didn’t get TOO much used to it because that will get pretty expensive when we continue with this habit back home!), climbed table mountain (2 of us did the skeleton gorge hike for 5 hours), we went to a church community to play with kids (played Dutch games-spijker poepen, eieren lopen, ezeltje prikje- and they had lots of fun, especially when they got a stroopwafel at the end;) ). These were a few of the things we did last weeks!  And hopefully next two weeks we will have some time left to enjoy Cape Town!

Cheers! Marlon, Jeroen, Anne, Anke, Stef & Leila

Testing the usability of the HWFA module

After we developed the E-learning HWFA module in PulseWeb, out next task was to investigate the usability for the module. To do this we needed all of the current Rehabilitation Care Workers (RCW’s) to try out the module for a few hours and tell us what they thought of it. We made a questionnaire containing 5 categories for the RCW’s to fill in:
– Performance Expectancy
– Effort Expectancy
– Behavioral Intention
– Social Influence
– Facilitating Condition

Each category contained questions the RCW’s had to grade through a Lickert-scale (0-10). The average score on all the questions would give an impression of the usability of the E-learning module according to the RCW’s.

To use PulseWeb it is necessary to have at least some computer skills. Because some of the RCW’s didn’t have any experience with computers, we had to teach them some skills using the Basic Computer Skills course on PulseWeb. We tested their skills at the beginning and the end of the course to see if they improved.

So we had to schedule 2 half days at the computer lab at the University (UCT). One to teach the RCW’s the computer skills and one to get the RCW’s to try out the module and fill in the questionnaire.
Both times we got some real positive results: 84% passed for the final test of the computer course, while only 40% passed the pre-test. Also, the RCW’s scored the usability between 7 and 8 and gave us a lot of positive and useful feedback.

Sadly, for us this meant it was the end of our contribution and our stay in South Africa. At least for now, because the goal is to spread the course to other universities in South Africa, so this project might become much bigger then it is now. If we will be able to be a part of it? Future will tell.

For now we had a great time working on it and we want to thank everyone who has been a part of it. We also want to wish the next students and UCT good luck with extending the project!

Thank you!

Sanne, Yvonne and Lars

Fifth phase of the blended learning

Last week the fifth phase of the blended learning project has come to its end. Since our last blogpost a lot has happened which we will gladly tell you about. I’m sure some of you would also be interested in our final results for this period.

N1 City:
N1 City has, in general, been very independent in the e-learning. During the fifth phase of the project we were most useful in the start-up with the blended learning and guiding the blended learning. Though most of the blended learning has been coordinated by the clinical facilitators which is a very good thing, because the partners at Prof Portal Africa should have independency in the blended learning. In the week of the 18^th of May there were some simulations planned for inserting an IV-cannula. We, as nursing students, were asked to assist with this and have a part in this practical part of the e-learning module. Unfortunately due to circumstances the simulations couldn’t go through, but we are sure that N1 City will continue in the future. The quality proposal that we wrote included some recommendations for both hospitals in the blended learning. For N1 City this meant making a better planning and managing of their time so that the blended learning isn’t something that stays on the background. In the last week of the fifth blended learning phase(25-31 May) we did a ‘goodbye’ coffee with the clinical facilitators. This was a good way to close off this period and say our goodbyes.

GSH:
In GSH the theoretical part of the blended learning was finished on the 8^th of May. Together with the CF’s we tried to push a lot of nurses to go to the e-learning sessions at the internet café and complete their theory so that they could partake in the practical exams. On the 11^th, 12^th, 13^th, 21^st and 22^nd of May we had the practical exams of the BLS/AED module and the IV-therapy module. We assessed and guided the nurses while they did a simulation of the BLS/AED and IV-therapy. We think that overall most nurses were very excited about the practical exams and the theory finally ‘made sense’(some of them were really nervous as well!). Everyone who attended the practical exams passed and that were… 65 nurses! Even a clinical facilitator did a module during this phase and she passed the practical exams as well.

To celebrate this fact we had ceremonies for the nurses :)… all of them! Together with the CF’s we made a set-up for the ceremonies, printed certificates and handed them out during the ceremonies. It was a very nice way to close off the fifth phase of the blended learning project. We gave our thanks and appreciations to all the participants of the blended learning and off course to the CF’s. With the CF’s we had a high tea on the last Friday which was very nice, but also a bit sad as well, because saying goodbyes never is a fun thing to do. In our last week we also presented our results to the managers of the hospital and we presented our general recommendations to them: better preconditioning’s, participation of operational managers in the e-learning, more stimulation from managers, access on wards and a solution for time shortage to work on e-learning.

Our graduation project was finished in the last week of the fifth phase as well with some recommendations for the GSH like described above. We also made a ‘time-path’ for the CF’s to continue with the blended learning between phase 5 and phase 6 to increase continuity and sustainability. We hope that there will be a small group of nurses who can complete the blended learning with the help of the CF’s before the new student arrives in SA.

This will be the last blog about the fifth phase of the blended learning project. We have to say that we really enjoyed our time here in South-Africa. The project was a great experience, we met some wonderful people who will always be in our hearts and minds. The country has a lot to offer; beautiful nature, exciting nightlife, interesting travelling options, diverse weather and more! We hope that this blog has inspired you to study abroad or go to South-Africa 🙂

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. Bye Bye dankie

Last First Aid basic training

Time flies when you’re having fun! We had a great time with the 20 students who followed the First Aid basic course. We taught them for about ten weeks. They learned a lot of things about CPR, wounds, bleedings, burns, fractures, etc. We teached them the theory, but we did practicum as well. Today it was our last day with these students so we promised them an ‘afterparty’. We brought some pies, drinks and music. They actually didn’t like the dutch music, so we were happy they had some music with them as well. We were both very suprised about the speech they had for us. As well for about the song the sing for us. 

    
This is what the class said to us: “We appriciate what you have taught us so far. On behalf of everyone, we just take this moment to say thank you very much. You come to us all the way from the Netherlands and you shared your apple of knowledge with us. We just thank you very much and we’re feeling very benevolent for wat you did. We are grateful. You inspired us and we are thankful to you. You also have brighten our future because of this first aid and life sciences. Trust me, we are going places far. May the lord bless you with a long life. Long life to you guys.”

Besides the party the students received a summary of the theory of the basic training, a certificate and a group picture we made one week ago. The students were zo thankful. It was great to see them for the last time and we will miss them a lot!! 

  
We just have two trainings left with the advanced group. The last five weeks they learned all about CPR for an adult and a baby, animal bites and stings, Rabies, burns, bleedings, factures and gunhot and stab wounds. Especially the last subject was really interesting for these students. In these township a gunshot wound or stab wound is so common, so it is good to teach the students about that. Next Thursday we will teach their knowledge about the things we tought them and the week after we will have an ‘afterparty’ with these students as well. The 28th of May is, unfortunatly, our last day at Sinenjongo High School. We are going to miss the school, but we’re sure we will come back once. 

See you soon, 

Marleen and Floortje

Developing the HWFA in PulseWeb

Since we shadowed the RCW’s, our main task has been to develop the HWFA module into the e-learning program PulseWeb. To do that we needed content from UCT to put into the program. This content contained a pretest, a manual, case studies, an assessment form and a final exam. Our first idea was to make tiles for the different Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO’s) and link the manual and case studies to those tiles, so it would look like this:

Later we found out the case studies and examinations were not specific to certain ILO’s, so we decided to change the lay-out and got to this:

We think the lay-out is a lot clearer and easier to understand, because it is less busy. We also added some practice questions, because we could only add multiple choice questions into the final examination. So we used the open questions from the final exam as practice questions.

For one week in April, a delegation from Avans University came to Cape Town to see how the projects were going and how they could expand their contacts in South-Africa. We presented our project to them and we had a nice picknick with all of the Avans students on a beautiful location in Noordhoek.

Next week the current RCW’s will come to UCT for one day and we will test the usability of the e-learning module.

See you later!

Sanne, Yvonne & Lars

Start of the Advanced First Aid Training SHS

Hello everybody,

Last week we started the Advanced First Aid Training with the group students which have done the Basic Training last year with Nienke and Diede. We chose some subjects for this training which will give depth to the basic training and some new subjects. We developed a whole new course with subjects as CPR, gunshot wounds, stab wounds, animal bites and stings, Rabies, burns and fractures. The students are very enthusiastic about the training, especially subject as gunshot wounds and stab wounds they would like to have teached. 

  
As well the basic training is still very nice. The students are enthusiastic and curious about everything we learn them. They are full of good interesting questions and we can see that they learn a lot. Sometimes they arrive in class and tell us they used the first aid which we have teached them! That’s what makes us enthusiastic as well. Last Tuesday we did a quiz with the students. We had some sweets as prices and that made them very fanatic. It was nice to see how the liked the competition. 

As well we have been to the celebration of Freedom Day at Sinenjongo High School. The students did some fund raising for the school and for teachers who lost their jobs. They sold a lot of food and drinks and they did some dancing, singing and they red some poets about Freedom. It was very interesting and inspiring. It was very funny to see how the students like to eat just the feet of the chicken. Not the legs or another part of the chicken, but just the feeds. They told us we should try it as well, but that part of the day we skipped. 

   
     Unfortunately we just have one month left to finish this project and make it to a good end. So the next four weeks we are busy developing and finishing the advanced course, we will make summaries of the theory for the students and we will do some tests to check their knowledge about first aid. 
Cheers, 

Marleen and Floortje

Continuing the e-learning

Hi everyone,

A month has progressed in our project and we would like to give you an update about what happened! First of all we’d like to state that we are still having a wonderful time in South-Africa. There is a lot to do in your free time around here… things we could have never done if we had graduated in the Netherlands.

At the moment we are in the 10th week of our project and things are really starting to piece together. We’ll give you an update on both of the hospitals.

N1 City
In march we still had some training sessions left in which we guided some nurses who had a late start in the e-learning. They would come to an area in the hospital where internet was available and work on the modules for a couple of hours until it was (nearly) finished. Even in their free time(!). At the end of march all the nurses of the pilot group had finished their module. We had an evaluation with our supervisor and the clinical facilitators of the N1 City hospital about how it was experienced and what the future would look like.
The clinical facilitators were enthusiastic about the blended learning and they had heard positive signals from the nursing staff. What we experienced as well was that almost all the nurses were enthusiastic about the e-learning and many of them were quick to catch up on the material. All that was left now was the practical assessments of the e-learning modules which was still the question how this would be organized. Probably there will be simulation rooms where the nurses can put their theory into practice for the module Enteral Feeding. They would like for us to join as well in this simulation. The N1 City hospital has a busy month in April with different kinds of quality projects going on so as of now we haven’t heard when these sessions are going to be held. Our focus now is more at the GSH hospital and our graduation product.

GSH
For the nurses we are now in the 6th week of the e-learning. Our biggest struggle this time is that the e-learning still isn’t available on the intranet of the hospital. This means that the nurses cannot go onto the e-learning in their ward or clinic. Only a place with an internet connection is able to go on the e-learning. This means that our only possibility is to continue the sessions at the internet café which we have been doing since the beginning.
Every day there is a time slot and nurses can join in the time slot of their pavilion or, when applicable, join in another session on another day of that week. After the first month we had a cut-off for the nurses to join the e-learning, because otherwise the nurses wouldn’t have had enough time to finish a module before the practical exams started. In total there should be around 60 nurses who attended at least 1 session and that we are trying to let them all finish their modules with a good score! We keep track of the nurses with our registration list and keep on communicating with the clinical facilitators about which nurses didn’t come to a session so we can try and reach out to them again. Hooray, some nurses already finished the theoretical part of the blended-learning! It’s really nice if the nurses are very happy with their result because of their hard work. We are also very proud of them :).

The last few weeks we’ve also been busy with out quality proposal which is about the continuity and sustainability of the e-learning project. This is also a lot of work in terms of brainstorming about strategies, writing chapters and doing interviews with people from the hospitals.

From the 11th of May we are having our practical exams in the skillslab of UCT which is situated in the hospital. The nurses will either be doing the BLS or IV-therapy so that they can finish their module. After this we have our certificates ceremony! What we have experienced so far is that time seems to be flying here in Cape Town… in only 5 weeks we are already finished with this project. We are looking forward to see the nurses finish the e-learning and to see the fruits of our labour 🙂

If you have any questions, please let us know!

The internet café at GSH

A session at Netcare N1 City hospital

Sunset in South-Africa!