Great FOSSian, Just my 1.5 cents,
I would just say, we are not the best person to develop a curriculum, but what we are best at is the knowledge that we have in its depth and vastness about Computers in general and FOSS in specific. My 1st cent: How about if we bring the computer teachers from these schools and orient /train them on FOSS and its specific advantages. Just could be a combined training session focused on our objective workshop. Where we understand their requirement rather than assuming it ourself. My .5 cent now: How about including curriculum/author experts like R.C. Khannal and other computer book aurthors to develop this course for catering need of Nepal. Obeously, since these is a Free and Open Source initiative, we have to convince them to make all these content Creative Commons Attribution -NC in not complete FDL itself. Would be a great learning experience. I think our OLPC experience w.r.t to content creation would be great advantage to us in this endavor. Best Wishes. Hempal Shrestha At / À 04:45 PM 7/11/2007, daya wrote / a écrit: >On 7/10/07, Jitendra Harlalka ><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey guys, > Good to see everyone excited about > starting a campaign at school level. Just to > inform, I want to say that IOE FOSS community > alongwith ACEN (Association of Computer > Engineers in Nepal) has already conducted such > awareness programme in several schools in the > valley. I guess, it must have been just 2 weeks > when we conducted such programme in Brihaspati School, Naxal. > But the problem i guess is the school > syllabus itself, which is Windows-based. The > government is not going to change the syllabus > until we show them some successful model. > I think we need to design a syllabus > based on FOSS which should meet all the > requirements of the present syllabus like > QBASIC, HTML, wordprocessing, spreadsheet, etc etc. > > > >Yes this is one of the most essential things, >for starting Linux and Foss from the very >beginning in the schools. suppose we setup a Lab >with Linux system on one of the school. but If >the school want to launch the computer classes >they are lacking the curriculum. Student don't >want to use computer for just typing and making files and Folders. > >They want a lot from this.Such as designing , >adventurous games, Programming basic etc. They >are taught DOS, It will be our great victory if >they are taught Linux and Linux shell instead of DOS. > > > >We(From MPP) have setup LTSP in NepaLinux 2.0 on >one of the remote schools of Dailekh. >There we have total of 7 computes. the campaign >was successful and was an unforgettable moment >for us (me and Amit) But we are still in doubt, >how can they go onwards for computer education. >If they are going to launch the computer course of government curriculum. > > > > >so , lets FOSS Nepal take an initiative >for developing curriculum for computer to the >school students that purely focuses on Linux and Open source. > > >Its our dream , one day the school children >start to write a bash shell script instead of >Qbasic, and learn Linux Kernel and Unix History instead of Windows, > >haha >:) > > > > > >We will have to find some schools who can implement them. > > > > > > We, at IOE, have started a wiki for > that. But, because of the ongoing exams haven't > been able to do much on that. I can't remember > the link to the wiki right now. Will post it > later. Hope everyone's contribution will help > leap a few steps further in this effort. > >-jitendra harlalka > > > > > > > >-- >regards, >daya, > >lets share the knowledge, >"A candle doesn't lose anything by lighting another" > Best Regards, Hempal Shrestha ________________________________________________________________________________ Program Officer Bellanet Regional Secretariat, Asia SAP-I, P.O. Box:23025 , Sanepa, Lalitpur, NEPAL Tel: 00977-1- 5522234 / 5528612 (Extn: 106) Fax: 5553126 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.bellanet.org http://www.sapint.org http://www.asia-commons.net ________________________________________________________________________________ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
