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READ MOREMarch 8, 2009 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Training of Trainers
Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal) began the first part of training teachers to integrate E-Paati (XO laptops) in classroom teaching-learning process by conducting a four day training workshop on March 22-25, 2009. This training was designed to train master trainers from the Ministry of Education's teaching training body, the National Center for Education Development (NCED), for the next round of OLPC laptop deployment planned for April 2009.
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READ MOREJan. 5, 2009 | Program Updates | Rabi Karmacharya
Training Manual Preparation Workshop
OLE Nepal organized a three day workshop on December 23-25, 2008 to prepare the teacher training manual for the next round of OLPC laptop deployment planned for April 2009. The workshop participants included experts from the National Center for Education Development (NCED) – Nepal Government’s teacher training body under the Ministry of Education, as well as officials from the Department of Education (DoE)’s OLPC team. Teachers from the two test schools – Bashuki Lower Secondary School and Vishwamitra Ganesh Secondary School – were also invited for a day to share their experience on using , shed light on the challenges faced so far, and give suggestions on how the training program can be made more effective and relevant in integrating the laptops and ICT-based teaching-learning method in their classrooms. Earlier on December 15th, few of the participants had also visited the two test schools to observe how the program was being implemented in the classrooms.
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READ MOREDec. 22, 2008 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
Who We Are
We are the guys from upstairs who play loud music and disturb everyone else. Currently, there are eleven interns working for OLE Nepal. All of us are intelligent, hard-working, and energetic young high school graduates committed to helping change the Nepalese education system. We were too lazy to apply to colleges while still in school, so we had a year with nothing to do. Fortunately, OLE Nepal beckoned us, and now we have something interesting and worthwhile to fill our time with. Some of us are seasoned veterans who have worked long hours until late at night on weekends to meet deadlines. Others are newbies who grumble all the time about not having their own desktops.
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READ MOREDec. 16, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
Notes from Nepal's OLPC Deployments
We conducted four days of teacher training off-site and five days on-site in the classroom with both the students and teachers. A large portion of our teachers had never used a computer before but they learned very quickly. Their enthusiasm was amazing. Training during the off-site sessions formally ended at 5:30 pm but the teachers stayed in our training room each night until 11 pm, pounding away on the XO's and asking endless questions.
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READ MOREDec. 9, 2008 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Get your car to squeak: Second OLPC Game Jam
Today, Ace Institute of Management hosted the second OLPC Game Jam organized by OLE Nepal. Students and enthusiasts from various schools got a chance to learn the basics of Squeak to create simple applications. Participants were shown how to make a simple car game. Each participant had to get a car moving with a steering wheel controlling its motion. A simple script would then give it a more authentic game feel by making the car move faster on the track and decelerate when it strayed off the track.