Keep up the good word, Dr Seth and PCCE. For those who might not know, the PCCE is Goa's second college of engineering, the Padre Conceicao College of Engineering at Verna.
In past years, Goanet has been one of the networks actively involved in promoting a computers-in-schools project. The same is still active, though with some ups and downs. There is really a need for interested people to come up and support schools of their choice. Long-time Goanetters and returned expats Alwyn and Lisa from Chorao have been doing a great job. If you would like to link up and support any specific school, there are tonnes of possibilities. FN PS: Prof Seth, could your students take a look at the literacy software? Any chance of deploying it in Goa? It's a non-commercial product... ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:10:28 +0530 From: Anil Seth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Students teaching students Hi, PCCE had organised a session of two hours for 9th & 10th standard students from a school in Nuvem as a part of our Independence day celebrations. CSI student chapter members were among the volunteers who 'taught' the students. Both windows and linux systems were shown. Great fun was had by the school students and the volunteers. Incidentally, the school children had no problem in exploring the games on Linux. Chromium was quite popular - at least on the systems on which it ran well. (Most college PC's do not have 3D graphics accelerator cards.) I expect that PCCE will have more such activities. I would be keen to see kindergarden or primary school children interact with the CSI students. regards Anil ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
