166 Entries for “OLE Nepal”
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READ MOREMay 16, 2008 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
Some interesting feedback from teachers at Bashuki
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 children take the laptops home right away. Their decision was apparently based on the following assumptions:
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READ MOREMay 15, 2008 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
Working on Internal Systems
I haven’t been nearly as active in the OLPC mailing lists discussions and software testing for the last weeks due to a 10-day illness and then some internal office systems stuff that I am still working on. About a day after the glorious start of the Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools, my lower lip started mysteriously swelling. It kept swelling and swelling despite my sweet coaxings and entreaties to shrink. It swelled so large that I couldn’t close my mouth and was extremely was painful. The infection also caused a nasty fever that kept me in bed. I was too tired to do any serious work, but not too tired to learn some super cool vim plugins! like MiniBufExplorer, python omnicomplete, and I finally learned to fully appreciate Visual Mode.
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READ MOREMay 7, 2008 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
First Week in Classroom
We have just finished the second phase of the teacher’s preparation programme by the starting of this week.It was a onsite programme and we were prepared for making the lesson plans while implementing the E-paatis in the classroom.I was rather concerned to the time management while using the E-paatis during teaching,since in the very first day,it was quite difficult to finish the class in more than one hour and fifteen minutes ,which was planned for fourty-five minutes.