Hi Soundar, > We use old computers in our project 'Pygmalion,' a project to enhance > spoken English skills of 5th standard students studying in Government > schools in villages. Presently, the endeavour is on in 19 schools, of > them 15 are Government-run higher primary schools in and around Mysore > and Bangalore. Thanks to the computer and the multi-media lessons (both > curriculum and non-curriculum) the children are showing tremendous > enthusiasm to learn. The teachers (most of them never had a chance to > use a computer) have shown lot of interest in this methodology, and some > of them are giving a hand to help enhance the content. These old > computers have been donated by software companies and a couple of > individuals. Inspired by the response we have now sought 300 old > computers from donors. On the lessons front a voluntary group of 30-40 > IT professionals in Bangalore and beyond are donating time and effort to > develop multi-media based lessons for standards beyond the 5th. The > content of these lessons would help children not only learn English > skills, but other subjects as well.
I'm interested in this project, and would like to know more about the software used. However, it seems that you were using software specifically designed to teach people to read and write, whereas we are proposing not to use any such software - just to provide a low cost channel for written communication. Cheers, Chris. -- (aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ 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.
