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The NMS team
Luc Vandeput |
 Before
graduating as an educationalist at the Catholic University
of Louvain , Luc was already a teacher.
He works as a lecturer at the teacher training department of
the Catholic College Louvain, campus Diest, and is also responsible
for all e- learning of the KHL. On top of that, he is working
for AVL, the post- university service of the KUL, and DOS-
lecturer ( an updating course for teachers ) at Bokrijk.
For many years Luc has been convinced of the added value of
ICT in all education and learning processes. He was president
of TEAM, a group of Mac- users and ICT fans in education. This
brought him into contact in the USA with ACOT, Apple Classrooms
of tomorrow. In this programme, backed by the American government,
pupils and teachers were given a technology -permeated environment,
the profits of which were afterwards studied by educational
experts.
This experiment forms the basis of almost all educational applications
of ICT and internet in the US. It was here , as well as in
the online forums for teachers, that Luc found his inspiration
to create BRIDGED in the RELATED project.
As co- founder of the New Media School, Luc is involved in
almost all ICT activities of NMS. He has built up an enormous
expertise in educational ICT applications. His recent appointment
as co-ordinator of e- learning for the KHL is an acknowledgment
of his long struggle for innovation in education. Luc has always
remained a teacher, an authentic one, but using ICT! |
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Ilse Stroobants |
 After
Latin- Greek secondary studies (St. Dimpna Geel ), Ilse graduated
in 1993 as educationalist at the Catholic University of Louvain.
She had her first work experience as project leader in the
Strategic Plan Kempen, a regional development organisation.
It was here that she got the expertise in Flemish and European
programmes (Leonardo, ESF, EFRO,…) on the themes Employment,
ICT/tele- communication. Under her co-ordination several initiatives
were realised: development of learning environment BridgED
and the start of the ICT sensibilisation project CyberSkills.
In January 2000 she continued her career in the Higher Institute
of Geel, where she enlarged her programme knowledge as project
co-ordinator of Netmobile and the STIHO project BridgED- link.
Besides that she has also been active (since 1996 ) as a lecturer
of didactics, media and educational organisation in the teacher
training courses Geel (adult education, OSP-GPB).
September 2003 she started as a teacher and a trainee mentor
at the St. Clara College of Arendonk. |
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Manuella Borghs |
 After
secondary school Scientific B (St. Dimpna Geel )she graduated
in Romance Languages at the Catholic University of Louvain.
She worked as a teacher French at St. Dimpna’s and was
involved in several exchange programmes there. At the moment
she is a teacher- trainee mentor in the teacher training courses
Geel (adult education, OSP-GPB )and European Co-ordinator of
KOGEKA.
Manuella also participated in the BISEL project and in several
teacher training courses a.o. Leonardo and Comenius.
She has a lot of experience in directing , in video and audio
recordings, and in linguistic assistance to European project
participants.
At the moment she is dreaming of a multi- lingual “survival
package “ for this.
To be continued in 2004.
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Danny Vanderveken |
 After
studies Latin-Science (St. Pieter’s Turnhout ) Danny
graduated as biologist at the Catholic University Louvain.
He was a science teacher at St. Dimpna’s and the co-ordinator
of the European exchange projects in several programmes. For
KOGEKA he organised SPLASH , the third Youth Congress for Water,
in 2003.
Now he is Headmaster of St. Maria Institute Kasterlee.
Danny was the driving force of the water and environment projects
in several European programmes, project co-ordinator of NMS
for the BISEL project and all water training projects. On top
of that, he is also conservator of the nature reserve in his
village Retie,a director of Green Belgium and a member of diverse
environment organisations.To save water he prefers drinking
beer and wine!
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Lieve Eelen |
 She
followed secondary education at St. Jozef Institute Herentals
and got a teacher degree Sciences at the Kardinaal Van Roey
Institute Vorselaar.
She was a science teacher at the St. Lutgardis Institute Turnhout
and an educator and a computer teacher at St. Dimpna’s
Geel.
At the moment she is responsible for the computer helpdesk
of the KOGEKA schools Geel and ECDL training for teachers.
She is webmaster of St. Dimpna’s, and participated in
NMS training for teachers (DIGIKIDS ) and for foreign participants
in the Leonardo mobility projects.Mac or PC, they have no secrets
for Lieve!
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Patrick Verhaert |
Graduated first as an electronics engineer at the KHK Geel
and then started working there as a lecturer for the electronics
engineers, responsible for the lab computers.
He set up a programme of a learning environment for the students
to make and study all practice training, which earned him the
Digikids Award 1999.
For years he was the organiser of the ESF project New Media
in Education, an advanced multimedia ICT training of 28 sessions,
for secondary and higher education teachers.
Patrick also teaches at the Computer Academy (Centrum 2000
) at Turnhout and develops host websites e.g. for NMS. He is
the author of two handbooks on his favourite software Dreamweaver.
In a nutshell: Patrick is a specialist in weaving web dreams! |
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Karel Van Hoeck |
 After
his secondary Latin-Mathematics (Klein Seminarie Hoogstraten
) he graduated in mathematics at the Catholic University Louvain.
First he was a maths teacher at the Klein Seminarie and then
at St. Dimpna’s, where for years he also taught computer
science and gave computer training for teachers.
He is the regional co-ordinator of TEAM, a Mac- user and ICT-
fan group in education. Apple Benelux appointed him as Apple
Distinguished Educator for educative presentations.
He does not care much about PC’s , but Apple hard- and
software have no secrets for him! Karel was responsible for
NMS courses for Flemish teachers (Digikids, Philosiphical Hotel
), as well as for foreigners a.o. in Leonardo projects. |
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Karen Aerts |
 After
her secondary studies of Human Sciences (St. Dimpna’s)
Karen studied for graphic designer at the Karel de Grote College
of Antwerp. After post- graduate courses she lived and worked
for a year in London.
There she worked in the children’s book department of
Salamander Books and later in the advertising studio The Creative
Consortium.
Back in Belgium she was a trainee,for half a year, in the Expertise
Centre for Digital Media of the Limburg University Centre of
Diepenbeek .
Since 1997 she has been working as a designer for the publishers
RG Visualia at Dessel.
Since its very beginning she has been involved in the New Media
School, for which she created the house style and the website,
and she did her part of the designing for several projects
a. o. ARTLINKS. |
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Tiny Dijsselbloem |
After secondary Human Sciences (Virga Jesse Hasselt ) Tiny
got the degree of Dutch and History teacher at the Paridaens
Institute at Louvain.
She was a teacher at the Salvator College Hamont and at St.
Dimpna’s,where she was involved in European exchange
projects in several programmes: Lingua, MSP and Comenius. She
was a presenter in a lot of pressconferences, academical and
other multi-lingual meetings, and accompanied pupils in several
countries. Tiny also assisted and informed foreign NMS guests
in different training programmes a. o. Leonardo Mobility. |
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Laurens Vandeput |
One of Luc Vandeput’s six children, Laurens is the
most affected by the ICT virus! Computers, software and internet
are irresistible for him,which resulted in the Vandeput home
having a network installed to suit each member! Switching off
the Internet is a nightmare for Laurens, although his father
sometimes takes away the modem during exam periods!
At the moment Laurens follows Economics- Maths at the Voorzienigheid
Institute at Diest,but he is already sure of what he will do
next: ICT. He really is a computer freak! In the mean time
he dismantles computers or puts them together,builds websites
or plays the webmaster. He provides the animation of this website
in Flash. |
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Lisette Heylen |
 She
studied Economics and Bookkeeping and worked as a bookkeeper
in several accountancy offices.
In the New Media School she is the treasurer, a function demanding
lots of tricks of the trade,as there usually is no treasure,and
more incoming than outgoing bills!
And so, like all good bookkeepers, she regularly warns the
management that the budget has been exceeded, is exhausted
or in deficit, with the advice to cut down or even to stop! |
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Willy Aerts |
 He
did not study New Media, let alone ICT at the KU Louvain, but
Philosophy, Law and Classical Philology.
He was a Classical Language teacher and later Headmaster at
St. Dimpna’s Geel.
Since 1992 he organised big European exchanges in annual European
weeks,in which hundreds of pupils and ( host )parents from
a total of 30 schools from 25 different European countries
participated. These exchanges took place within educational
projects of diverse European programmes,like Euro classes,
Multiple School Partnership, Comenius, Lingua or just as an
own initiative.
In St. Dimpna’s, as early as 1984, he already introduced
into the school curriculum computer initiation for all pupils
as a pilot project. The school was selected in 1986 as one
of the 10 Flemish computer pilot schools. In 1992 it was selected
by Apple as one of the 260 schools of the worldwide Apple Global
Education (AGE ). They were a worldwide intranet, before the
arrival of internet. Since 1996 the pupils got free access
to this internet. So it is no wonder that after the erection
of NMS, Europe and ICT became hot items.
Since 1999 Willy has been the manager of @rtsconsult, but as
ever involved in most NMS activities. |
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