On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:44 AM, ♪♫▬aze <[email protected]> wrote:
> ahhh... lucky kids... i can remember using Windows 3.1 and LOGO and DOS... > at that point of time.. > > > On 2 June 2010 10:48, Diwash Pradhan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Sagar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> grea8. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM, pravin joshi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I am associated with Brihaspati Vidyasadan school. At the beginning of >>>> this academic year, we setup a computer lab dedicated to students from >>>> Nursery to class 2. We decided to go with edubuntu 9.10, (just the >>>> default install). Its been 11/2 months now since these students have >>>> been using these machines. Yesterday I went to check up on them on how >>>> they were faring along. I just wanted to share the experiences. >>>> The students, when I went there, were busy using gcompris. Most of >>>> them seemed to have mastered gcompris, which was kinda cool. Some of >>>> them were using tuxType and tuxMath. There was one very busy with >>>> tuxPaint. And one was using my favorite program, potato guy. >>>> The students had already got the hang of starting up the machines, >>>> logging in and shutting down the machines. Basically they were able to >>>> browse through the environment very well. They could go to the >>>> programs they liked and work with them. >>>> What I really wanted to find out was how these programs that they were >>>> using were helping them in everyday work. That is where the difference >>>> comes in. Some of the students have shown remarkable changes in >>>> recognition of characters, spelling and drawing. Too early days, but >>>> impact is showing up. >>>> Few things I plan to do now: >>>> Install more softwares including : omnitux, my own eBarnamala and >>>> writetype. Also I am thinking of introducing class 2 students to >>>> kturtle, scratch or some other visual programming tool. Please give >>>> suggestions. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>>> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Mailing List Guidelines: >>>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >>>> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>¸. >>> >>> ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> >>> Mr. Abhudaya Sagar Kshetri (ASK?) >>> Url: www.sagarkshetri.com.np >>> email:[email protected] <email%[email protected]> >>> >>> -- >>> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >>> >>> Mailing List Guidelines: >>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >>> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Diwash Pradhan >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> > > > > -- > シ ZZZZZZzzzzzzzssshhhhh.............. > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > This is simply great. If kids are given a PC with linux from this phase of life then they wont have any problems. I think all parents too should start giving PCs with linux installed on their home PC to kids from starting so that they will ask what is Windows if they find one somewhere just like many ask what is linux right now? Great share. +1 for this... -- Regards, Manohar Bhattarai (मनोहर भट्टराई) Blogs: http://manoharbhattarai.wordpress.com/ http://manoharbhattarai.posterous.com/ http://manoharbhattarai.blogspot.com/ Microblogs: Twitter :- http://twitter.com/manoharmailme Identi.ca :- http://identi.ca/manoharbhattarai -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
