One of the things that initially attracted me to OLPC was that we Nepalis could it make it our own. So often ideas and initiatives that come from the West are pre-packaged and controlled. With XO’s we can localize the Sugar interface, develop activities that accord to our needs and culture, and come up with [...]

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From left to Right: Om, Kamana, Upaya, Doug, Narendra, Dev, Aayush, Biplab, Sudaya, Surendra, Ties, Dr. Bhatta, Trinarayan, Rajeev, Bryan, Ram and Sulochan.
Nepal was declared a Federal Democratic Republic last night at 11:20 pm.
We celebrate at office today, celebrations still going on while I write this post.

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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 post [...]

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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 overview of [...]

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Hello World,
I am Manoj Ghimire from Bishwamitra Ganesh Lower Secondary School.I have been working in this school for last two years.I teach maths and science for the lower secondary level.
I am also an ex-student of this school.When the school upgraded from primary level to the lower secondary level, they needed extra teachers but there wasn’t [...]

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We at Sajha Sikchya E-Paati (OLE Nepal) firmly believe that one of the most important steps in implementing any ICT-based educational approach is teacher preparation. Unless the teachers are fully comfortable with this new approach to teaching, providing students with computers and educational content alone will have limited impact on the teaching learning process.
Basic structure [...]

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