192 Entries for “Recent Blogs”
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READ MOREDec. 29, 2011 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
Doti school networking
After a long wait networking at Doti finally started in mid of November 2011. Initially, it was planned for June/July 2011. But heavy downpour and poor weather conditions made it impossible to work during monsoon season. All the equipments required for the networking were already in place and had been moved to the World Food Program Dadeldhura office by the end of June, making travel much lighter and hassle free (even then our luggage was overweight by 15 kg, but we were able to convince airport crew about our project and didn’t have to pay for the extra weight).
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READ MOREDec. 26, 2011 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
E-Pustakalaya Yearly Maintanence
With the constant expansion of our content and features, it is only natural that our system would require further upgrades. We want to make sure that these changes will appear on Jan 1st; hence, we will be closing down our regular service for a week (Dec 26–31). This year, we have had a lot of feedback from our users—most of them have provided us with suggestions about certain features that would add to the overall user experience. We value the feedback we get, and we will be trying to include all these features and much more by Jan 1st.
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READ MOREJune 9, 2011 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Learn English Kids
OLE Nepal recently signed an agreement with the British Council to host Learn English Kids (LE Kids) interactive software in E-Pustakalaya. LE Kids teaches the fundamentals of the English language to children and adults through audio-visual effects and flash animations. In this regard, it is similar to OLE Nepal’s E-Paath activities, but its content is not tied to any specific curriculum.
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READ MOREMarch 31, 2011 | Program Updates | Rabi Karmacharya
Deployment 2011 !!
OLE Nepal office is once again abuzz with a flurry of activities; helpers hauling boxes of laptops, interns testing and preparing laptops, technical team preparing school servers with latest NEXS*, program officers calling schools to figure out the additional number of students who will need laptops and bags, training coordinator arranging training programs, people bundling up bags to be shipped to schools. Yes, we are getting ready for the next round of deployment of laptops ahead of the new school year that will begin in mid-April. The interns have taken over the meeting room, the biggest one in the building, and turned it into a staging place for the laptops. The room is a good 5 degrees warmer than the rest of the building with up to 40 laptops running at any given moment, being nand-blasted with the latest version of NEXO*. The interns have dnragged in two stand fans hoping to make the room a bit more bearable. Boxes of laptops line up against the wall with labels showing the names of the destination schools. Bundles of bags carry similar labels. In the other room the network team is preparing plans to wire more classrooms and connect schools to the Internet. The content development team is working frantically to meet the deadline set by the deployment team. The environment around the office is quite intense, yet exciting.
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READ MOREMarch 3, 2011 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
YA Literature Workshop (Phase I), Nagarkot
On 4th and 5th February 2011, OLE Nepal organized a writer's workshop to create Young Adult (YA) novels for Nepali youths. The two-day workshop took place in Nagarkot Farmhouse, Nagarkot, and had twenty-one participants. The workshop was facilitated and moderated by OLE Nepal's E-Pustakalaya advisers Churamani Bandhu, Dhurva Ghimire, Geeta Keshary, Hiranya Kumari Pathak, Rambabu Subedi, and Vinaya Kasajoo. Prof. Dr. Mahadev Awasti, representing the National Academy's Children's Literature wing, was also present as a member of the Editorial team. The rest of the participants were young aspiring authors who had mainly written for children and occasionally tried writing for adults.