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> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1 December 2007 12:29:54 PM GMT+05:30 > To: "shantanu oak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes > > > On 01-Dec-07, at 12:09 PM, shantanu oak wrote: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Dinesh Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:37:33 +0530 >> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes >> n Nov 26, 2007 6:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> as a fallout from the NRC-FOSS meeting in Mumbai, requests for >>> Teacher Training Programmes and installation of FOSS in labs have >>> started coming in. Typically, TTPs will be for one or two days, and >>> the teachers will be trained to teach FOSS subjects. We have a full >>> schedule of what is to be taught. We will pay for travel, >>> accommodation and a small honorarium also. Please contact us if you >> >> Hello Kenneth, can you send more info regarding the course work? >> I'm interested. > >> Hi, >> I am interested as well. >> >> - Shantanu Oak > > The training broadly covers training teachers to teach the syllabi > in foss electives I and II mentioned here: > > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/FossElectivesSyllabus <--- > this is for Anna University, Tamilnadu, but other universities > would do something more or less on the same lines. If you are > interested, please add your name and details in the link below and > we will revert: > > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/FossSpeakers > > as most universities in Maharashtra are now just about to formulate > their Syllabi in foss, this is a good chance also to get into the > ground floor of the syllabus making process. I would like to > emphasise that the policy of NRC-FOSS is *not* to go for platform > neutral syllabi, because going for that in Indian conditions, means > that the majority of lecturers will opt for the 'easily available > and accessable' option. We are *not* for a level playing field - we > are working to tilt the playing field in favour of FOSS. > > > > -- > regards > > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate, NRC-FOSS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > > Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/ > web/ > > > -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
