Hi, Thanks for the questions and criticism. I'll try to recheck the status of things and come with a more detailed request.
You gave me some good points to think about and talk with the people I work. guy keren wrote: > 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. > -- Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID) ================================================================= 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]
