Have been very impressed with VSO's pre departure briefing/training so far. They make extensive use of the web to keep us informed and have a fine series of online training courses for new volunteers. The courses are "social" in nature - they encourage and require interaction between the course members and they have an active course moderator from VSO.
For those of you that care about this stuff they run the courses on the Moodle learning platform - pretty impressive too. Having spent a large slice of my life designing and building eLearning solutions it makes a change to be on the receiving end of an enjoyable and interesting online course!
Will be attending some "real world" weekend courses at VSO training centre in Birmingham soon.
Have also discovered wonderful website with extensive online translation for Tok Pisin (the main language in PNG) have a look if you're interested http://www.tok-pisin.com/
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