Pamela McLean
Pamela lives in London. Her background is in teaching. Her special interests are how people can collaborate effectively through the Internet, and how ICT (Information and Communication Technology) alters the roles of teachers and learners. She graduated through the UK Open University which gave her a lasting love and appreciation of the potential of distance learning.
Rural Nigeria
She has been connected with projects in rural Nigeria since 2000. Her involvement there began through a Nigerian friend who was living in London and wanted help with a project "back home".This means her links are all people-to-people, rather than organisation-to organisation.
ICT in education
Her work with ICT in education stretches back to the 1980s (under the name of Pamela Fiddy) when "microcomputers" were making their first apperance in schools and she was an innovative infant teacher.
ICT for rural teachers
Her experience of computers coming into schools came to the fore again in 2004, when John Dada asked her to run an ICT training course for rural teachers (on one of her regular "working holidays" in Nigeria). This became the Teachers Talking project (with an annualonline celebration). In 2007 she presented a Teachers Talking course in Kenya, through COL (the Commonwealth of Learning).
Dadamac
With hindsight Teachers Talking was the start of the collaboration that has become Dadamac. Working closely with John in Nigeria made it possible for Pam to act as John's eyes and ears back in London; to speak for him in various situations, and in effect to act as a London office for his work in Nigeria. Doing a combination of online work based in the UK, and "field work" with John, established the communication channels, strategies and networks which Pam now shares with others through Dadamac.
Other interests
Some of her earlier interests and connections can be seen on her personal blog LearnByDoing (which preceded the development of this website). Her current interests are reflected on the dadamac website and through her use of Posterous for Open Letters
