A collaboration agreement between Microsoft Malta and Mater Boni Consilli St Joseph Paola gives primary and secondary girls attending the school the opportunity to use Microsoft educational tablets during different lessons and in various subjects.

Through this initiative the school staff will be able to prepare their lessons using technological and educational aids, including tablets. Cristina Mifsud was selected by the school administration as the teacher coordinator of this initiative. Recently, she managed to set up an unusual scenario during her geography lesson about the water cycle with Form 1 students. The session was held in the school’s science lab, giving the girls the opportunity to make use of both their tablets and the science apparatus.

Apart from these experiments, the students also got the opportunity to experiment with their tablet, to film the experiments as they were being done and produce a collage of images related to the topic. All the material gathered during the lesson was later assembled into a PowerPoint presentation using Office Mix tools to animate the work. The project will be uploaded to take part in Microsoft’s regional online Mixathon Challenge.

The school staff is being technically supported and assisted by Chris Demicoli, Microsoft education manager and Jurgen Calleja, ICT2Biz. chief executive officer.

The agreement was signed by Microsoft Enterprise manager Ruben Caruana and headmaster Kenneth Vella.