+1 Dadhiram Nepal
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] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- 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/
