left to right: Neema Lama (Bashuki), Kamal Lama, Manoj Ghimire (Bishwamitra) , Dr. Saurav Dev Bhatta (OLE Nepal) In the evening, I got to lead one section on my favorite subject, taking apart the XO and putting it back together. I was at OLPC headquarters back in January for a learning conference. During the conference, I [...]

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We have been working from 8 am in the morning until at least 11 pm for the last 4 days. The experience has been nothing short of exhilarating. The teachers have been fantastic to work with and have many good ideas how to implement OLPC. This is great as they ultimately are the implementers of [...]

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  Rajan teaches social science at Bashuki. He is one of the most enthusiastic participants in the program. Currently his only tools in the classroom are chalk, a blackboard, and the government textbooks. He gave us a lot of constructive feedback. His favorite game was the photographic adding game. He says that the English activities [...]

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Neema and Kamal Lama  Neema Lama and Kamal Lama both from Lakuri Bhanjyang and ethnically Tamang. Neema teaches English at Bashuki and Kamal came to the training as a representative of the Bashuki community. Kamal is a member of the Bashuki School Management Committee and earns his living making furniture and handicrafts out of bamboo. He has taught bamboo [...]

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Sound failed on one of the XO’s. Rebooted twice and now it works. Weird. It is not intuitive how to add new activities to the XO. We really need a Synaptic-like activity manager for removing and adding activities. Adding activities from a USB is not intuitive. Even if the Journal is vastly improved, a file [...]

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The four day long training organized by OLE Nepal introduced the concept of a Job Chart to be used in the classrooms with Xo’s.   Assigning jobs to the students for keeping the classroom organized means trusting them and making them responsible. Students first make their own classroom rules. Then they discuss and suggest possible jobs. [...]

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