Background For the past three weeks, I have explored the programs Scratch and E-Toys. While both programs provide the user the ability to write various programs, it is my impression that Scratch is far more intuitive, user friendly, and has greater accessibility to a larger set of tools. While the most apparent uses for Scratch [...]

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In his comprehensive overview of our experience so far, Rabi had mentioned that Bashuki’s School Management (SMC) Committee and teachers had jointly decided to wait for one week after the project launch before allowing students to take the laptops home even though our preference was to let the chidren take the laptops home right away. Their [...]

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We have just completed Part II of our teacher preparation program. The complete teacher training consisted of two segments: Part I) A 4 day intensive residential, out-of-school training that focuses on integrating digitial educational materials and ICT-based teaching approaches in the regular classroom instruction process. This was completed on April 1, 2008. An earlier blog [...]

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Saurav Dev Bhatta Introduction We just completed an orientation program for parents and stakeholders at Bishwamitra Ganesh Lower Secondary School  yesterday (April 21).  A similar program was held at Bashuki Lower Secondary School last Thursday (April 17).  The objective of these programs was to give the parents and other stakeholders in these test schools an [...]

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During the teacher training, the participants spent a lot of time familiarizing themselves with our E-Paati interactive activities. As they were going through the activities, we clarified to them the basic principles we have adhered to in designing these activities. Here is a overview of what we discussed.Types of digital content The digital content (teaching-learning [...]

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Over the last few of weeks the networking team has been working hard in getting together a concrete plan, to connect the pilot schools. The network had to be both cost effective as well scalable. So, with all the options available it was decided to connect the schools and the relays over Wireless with cheap [...]

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The problem we faced: We needed a customized built for all our XOs that would have the default language set to Nepali, the default jabber server set to a local server, a set of activities to match the grade level of students, and some other stuff. We’ve been harassing OLPC developers to get a script [...]

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