HeHe... I read the sidebar on etherpad and was flattered by the conversation. Anyway I wanted to just explain a little abt eBarnamala to put it into actual perspective. eBarnamala is targetted at Early Learners (not necessarily kids), specially for learning by doing. The basic idea was to make it into a tool that will allow people coming into tele-centers and e-libraries to play with it and learn in the process to make themselves literate. If u look into what the Nepal government thinks as literate is a person who can understand letters, time, money and be able to sign. Also kids experiment a lot. That may not be the case for all early learners as all early learners may not be kids. That is why the interface is made into something dead simple and most times only 1 click for anything to be done. While in Jiri with my wife, we realized that eBarnamala could be used for re-enforced learning. Ladies had social classes there to be literate, but did not know how to continue their learning after the classes were over. So I further looked into that the tool could be simple enough to be used in any place where there is a computer and people with no computer knowledge could just click their way through. I hope that explains more the thought process and motivates people to take eBarnamala to another level.
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