On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Yotam Rubin wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:05:45AM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: > > > >>Hi Guys, > >> > >>I was approached to find a volunteer who can teach PHP to high school > >>students in Ramat Gan. > >> > >>I'd be happy to help people who volunteerfor this. > > > > > > Perhaps describing the motivation for volunteering is appropriate. > > Will the instructor be teaching underprivileged, maimed, AIDS stricken and > > possibly communist Afghan refugees? Seriously now, what's the > > motivation, aside from PHP being a "FOSS SHMOSS" language? > > I'm talking about 2 lessons per week. PHP was selected because the > school has some application that already written in PHP. Also, we have a > good experience with the same course format from a few years ago (than > it was taught by experienced students). > > Motivation? Same for everything - getting experience with teaching, > contributing to the community. And from what I've see - get contributed > back in many ways.
i think you didn't answer the main concern yotam raised - of volunteering to give help on what seems to be a long-term bases to a school that might not be one of the poorer there is. it is one thing to volunteer to help those who don't have money. it is another thing to vulanteer to help get things started until a permanent teacher can be found. it is a completely different issue to become a teacher-for-free for a rich school that's being cheap (i'm not saying this is the case - i'm saying you did not state this was _NOT_ the case). > We expect the students to start maintaining theschool website during > and after the lessons. Another phase will be to teach them some > unix/linux skill so they can help with maintaining the servers. can you be more specific as to: - the formality of this project (i.e. how much is the school involved, and how much it is a non-school activity that just happens to be in a school? - the duration - how long is this help needed? 2 weeks? 1.5 month? a full year? - what kind of school is it? is it "blich ramat-gan", or "ganei-nomoney ramat-gan"? if you want a better chance of getting help - you'd better be much more elaborate. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
