This is a story about how we arrived at integrating SchoolTool in NEXS infrastructure to provide schools with a tool to manage classrooms, students, teachers and their day to day activity.

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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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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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Here is the network structure for the school server with proxy setup. # vi /etc/sysctl.conf make net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 service network restart Then ip-forwarding through ip-tables # iptables –table nat –append POSTROUTING –out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE # iptables –append FORWARD –in-interface eth2 -j ACCEPT squid install and cofigure squid ——————–squid.conf————————————- http_port 3128 transparent hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin [...]

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I am putting a few moodle screenshots, that shows the idea of separate grouping. Lets say there are three users: Admin/teacher, user1 and user2 (students in grade 2 and grade 6). The teacher will see this on his/her moodle screen: This is what user 1 who belongs to group class 2 will see: And this [...]

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Below is an e-mail that I wrote to several of the OLPC mailing lists. It was supposed to be a concise summary of the work we are doing on the school server but it ended up being way to long. I have posted it here because blogs are perfect for overly long messages. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The [...]

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Few weeks back I have created an
activity named "object identification". It took me a week
to complete that activity. Basically, It displays object and we have
to identify its name from list of options. Image, sound and text are
the integral components of this activity. After working on few more
activities We have realized that it will be better if we could
develop a template to make such activities. So, I invested few days
to make a template for multiple choice activity. Once it has
completed I have told one of my team mates that If I could create
three multiple choice activities within three hours then this
template can be consider worthy. To my surprise, it takes less than
three hours to complete three multiple choice activities. So, now I
have realized that if any thing is recurring then creating a template
really speed up activities development process.

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