Rega Isabella (Dr.)

Isabella Rega holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences with a thesis on the role of tele-centers in socio-economic development. She also completed an executive master in Intercultural Communication from the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).

Within the NewMinE Lab at the USI, Isabella is currently involved as project manager in two projects dealing with the introduction of ICT in teacher training for disadvantaged teachers in the state of Bahia (Brazil), and in the region of Cape Town (South Africa). These projects are funded by the Swiss National Research Fund, the Swiss Department of Cooperation and Development and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research.

Isabella worked in some tele-centres, as researcher and instructor, in Jamaica, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea and South Africa, and collaborated as online teacher for a distance university in Colombia. Furthermore, she has founded seed (LINK: www.seedlearn.org), a non profit organization promoting the development of a culture of educational technologies for international development and non profit sector.

She is also member of IPID, The International Network for PG Students in ICT4D and the ICT4D Collective at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Contact Isabella at
Tel. +41 (0)58 666 4674
Mail: isabella.rega@lu.unisi.ch
Skype: isakof

Primary schools & ICT (Mandate)

Project owner: Chiara Bramani

Project staff: Luca Mazzola

Period: School year 2008/2009

Funding agency: Lugano School District

Primary School & ICT is a project involving the schools of the Istituto scolastico comunale of Lugano. In the year 2007-2008 15 teachers have been involved in the project. Supported by NewMinElab, 3 projects have been developed:

• blog for the communication between students and their parents during the school trip;
• web radio, a collection of podcast;
• mobile phone treasure hunt.

Some blogs from last year experiences:

http://nantescuolaverde.blogspot.com/

http://quartaruvigliana.blogspot.com/

http://mascengo2008.blogspot.com/

Webradio site:

http://webradioselugano.blogspot.com/

E-treasure site:

http://www.etreasure.ch/site/

Bramani Chiara (Researcher)

Born in 1979, Chiara Bramani got her degree in Science of the Communication in 2003 with the specialization in business and institutional communication at the Università della Svizzera italiana of Lugano, Switzerland.

In the field of educational technology she worked at the Politecnico di Milano for 5 years,  engaged in the organization and management of different projects regarding e-learning and intercultural communication.

Chiara is working on  Primary Schools and ICT and on the PREDIL life-long learning EU project.

Contact Chiara at

Tel.:  +41 (0)58 666 46 09
Mobile (personal): 076.2277333
mail: chiara.bramani@lu.unisi.ch
skype: ninjadaasso