Hempal dai thats an great idea lets act soon or we will let one generation pass without testing the fun of LINUX
;) *Pravab Dhakal* *Computer Science* *KU - Batch 2003* *OPEN MIND, OPEN HEART* On 7/11/07, Hempal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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* < [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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
