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Who We Are
Founding Members
Lisa Blakeway and Nadia O’ Brien
Our experience and unique blend of skills positions us to work across all media platforms and to produce high-quality, high-frequency content at a seriously low cost.
We have worked across all levels of the education spectrum and are both experienced teachers, content developers, authors, educator-development specialists, editors, publishers, directors and producers.
Our proven creative and management skills ensure that we consistently deliver good content, on budget, in time.
Both natural-born teachers, our aim with all our new projects is not just to provide excellent interactive educational content, but also to ensure the transference of our skills and the development of young people within our industry.
Over the past fifteen years we’ve produced thousands of hours of live TV as well as hundreds of hours of DVD learning products linked to additional print and web resources.
Lisa
Lisa is the Executive Producer of ‘Matrics Uploaded’ (broadcast on SABC 1 every weekday from 15h00 – 16h00) and ‘Study Mate’ (broadcast on Soweto TV and Cape Town TV every weekday from 16h00 to 17h00).
She trained as a journalist and teacher and has also worked in PR and publishing. Her previous positions have included Managing Director of Learning Channel, Deputy Managing Editor (Education) at the Sunday Times, Executive Producer of ‘Matric 2nd Chance’ for SABC Education, Executive Producer of ‘Class of 2008’ for Soweto TV and Executive Producer of ‘Top Class’, a reality TV series funded by Avusa Media and screened on SABC1.
Lisa is a member of the World Association of Newspapers’ Youth Advisory Panel as well as a judge of the annual WAN-IFRA Young Reader Awards.
Lisa is determined to prove that, with the correct facilitation and integration, good-quality multi-media educational content can be used effectively to address South Africa’s teacher shortage and improve learner results.
Nadia
Nadia is the Eish-Team Sales Executive. Her many years in the classroom means that she has an affinity with teachers and learners and can therefore offer tailor-made solutions for any learning environment.
She trained as a teacher and remedial therapist. She started writing best-selling educational materials while still teaching. She has developed a wide range of learner- and teacher-support materials for newspapers, textbooks, web and television.
Her previous positions have included Learning Channel Curriculum Content Manager; Curriculum advisor and publisher for Macmillan, Nasou Via Afrika, Maskew Miller Longman and Clever; Managing Editor ReadRight; and author for Macmillan, Nasou Via Afrika and Clever.
Nadia is passionate about education and believes in the power of media in education. .
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