Welcome, Neil, and I look forward to visiting your project next year. I travel to Chiapas and Guatemala every spring. (See my site, The Daily Glyph, for clues to my mania)
And I'll try to come up with some helpful ideas in the meantime. Saludos Dave On 5/9/05, Neil Hendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Introducing myself as a new member and suggesting a topic of conversation, > > I am a Digital Divide activist, Neil Hendrick. I'm working with Partners in > Solidarity to build a network of Computer Academies in Xela, Guatemala. > Project dates, Jan-Mar 2006. > > A little history is that this is the PIS's fifth consecutive year working in > the region, we've set up 16 computer labs serving rural indigenous Mayan > schools. This is my third year working with PIS, I have also worked in > Nicaragua with an organization I co-founded, Communication Integration. This > upcoming project is the most ambitious project to date, creating 9 Computer > Academies with 30-40 computers each. > > In that vein, I would like to pose a question to the list. > > What sort of Curriculum should be used in a Computer Academy? > > The Rules: > 1) There are 9 schools, open 40 hours a week with 30 computers. Children can > sit 2 to a computer. > 2) The curriculum will terminate in a certificate. > 3) No access to Internet. (however, a person can visit cybercafes in > Quetzaltenango, it can be assumed that any person using a computer in this > program will be able to find public access to computers in the real world at > some time. ) > > So, thank-you, I look forward to following the discussion. > > Neil Hendrick > http://www.partnersinsolidarity.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > -- The Daily Glyph http://www.gomaya.com/glyph Usumacinta http://www.gomaya.com/dams Cell 917 312 9733 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
