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Essentially this project bootstraps a frugal lab for STEM by building simple DIY lab instruments that can then be used to develop STEM habits. The platform is open to everyone, parents, teachers, students., citizen scientist My earlier mail is in moderation beacuse of an attached video from a microscope using a webcam. On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:05 AM Michelle C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am fairly new to the group. > > I am part of a team that runs an "Open Education" initiative, Tamarind > Tree <https://tamarindtree.org> at Dahanu (about two hours north of > Mumbai). > > Our space is grounded on the open source philosophy, believing that > every learner must have access to high quality learning through Open > Educational Resources (OERs), enabling them to become life long learners. > > Towards this, we have a combination of Open hardware (SBCs), open > gamified tools installed on our customised OS (Treebian!) and content > and courses hosted on an open LMS (My Big Campus > <https://mybigcampus.in> on moodle). Content is generated based on the > NCERT courses and being released under a CC-BY license. Its a DIY space > with all this being developed, run and managed in-house by a handful of > people. > > The school is recognised by the Maharashtra Government, catering to the > local adivasi children from Pre Primary to Grade 8. We we will be going > up to Class 10. Its run in English. > > We would he happy to host members of this group for a visit here or even > offer our space for meetings and share some of our challenges with > setting up an open digital model in a rural area. We serve food to the > kids, so hosting a group of 10-20 people is not an issue on a weekday. > The train takes 2 hours from Bandra and comes straight to Dahanu Road. > > We are also looking for collaborations on the following fronts: > > 1. A Moodle and network administrator (can work remotely) (paid position) > > 2. People to come and volunteer and lead open source projects (building > weather station, Open Street Map, teaching imaging, etc) with our students > > 3. People interested in building educational content, learning videos, > games in open source. > > 4. Our students have been working on Scratch, but we need people for > mentoring and inspiration! > > Please do let me know how to take this forward. > > Regards > > Michelle > > Tamarind Tree > > +9284254470/+8806661235 > > twitter: @tamarindtree2 > > Fb: Tamarind Tree <https://www.facebook.com/ttschooldahanu/notifications/> > > > > -- > https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- https://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
