{"id":1693,"date":"2012-08-05T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T09:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/php7.innershed.com:10000\/virtual-server\/link.cgi\/212.71.245.84\/http:\/\/www.connectafrica\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2012-11-03T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:12:57","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As \u201cconnected\u201d travellers, we were on a quest to engage with cultures and communities in rural Zambia that have not enjoyed \u2013 to date \u2013 the benefits of technology.<\/p>\n<p>Vivid Productions followed our expedition with their cameras, with the view of making a pilot video documenting the inspirational story of what happens when 21st century communication technology meets rural culture.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stories that we looked at was the impact internet and computers is having on education, using <a title=\"iSchool - when technology meets education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1538\" target=\"_blank\">iSchool.zm<\/a> as the example.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a behind the scenes peek at some of the filming where, after having visited a school and <a title=\"Our visit to iSchool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1584\" target=\"_blank\">seen iSchool in action<\/a>, we interviewed their Head Teacher, Lulu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hBc-mKVKRI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Telana Simpson<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Date of Lulu&#8217;s Interview: \u00a0Tuesday 24 July 2012<br \/>\nConnectivity sponsored by\u00a0<a title=\"Thanks to our Sponsor MTN Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/mtnzambia\" target=\"_blank\">MTN Zambia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As \u201cconnected\u201d travellers, we were on a quest to engage with cultures and communities in rural Zambia that have not enjoyed \u2013 to date \u2013 the benefits of technology. Vivid Productions followed our expedition with their cameras, with the view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[62,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}