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READ MOREJan. 5, 2011 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Young Adult’s Literature: Seminar
As mentioned in an earlier post (http://olenepal.org/our-stories/ya-literature-workshop-phase-i-nagarkot/), OLE Nepal has started the initiative to create content suitable for Young Adults. As a first step, a seminar was organized on December 22, 2010, in Kathmandu to discuss the various issues, problems, and challenges faced by young adults in everyday life. The seminar was attended by eminent authors, artists, teachers, students, social workers, parents, and others related to the literary field.
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READ MOREDec. 14, 2010 | Impact Stories | OLE Nepal
Changing Nepali Classrooms
Mr. Acharya’s dream does not seem too farfetched when he has dedicated and competent teachers like Mr. Sambhu Prasad Bhat. Observing Mr. Bhat’s ICT-integrated class is as good as getting a crash course on how to use various resources to deliver an effective class. Mr. Bhat has clear and well-thoughtout plan. He would start with Grade 6 English textbook where children are explained about alphabetical order. While the children eagerly read what the book has on the topic, Mr. Bhat writes the names of few students on the white board. He asks the children to arrange the names in the Alphabetical Order. Children are excited to see their names on the board. It did not take long for the children to copy the ten names in alphabetical order on each of their exercise books. The children are then asked to open their E-Paati laptops.
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READ MOREDec. 10, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Nepali Young Adult's Literature: Content Creation Project
OLE Nepal has started an ambitious project to create content relevant to Young Adult (YA) in Nepali literature. Over the span of two years, we spent collecting and archiving work of Nepali literature, and we realized that there was a real dearth of literary materials for YAs between the ages of eleven and eighteen. After a number of discussions on this topic, E-Pustakalaya's Advisory Panel met on November 30, 2010, at the OLE Nepal office to plan the content creation process to meet the literary needs of teenagers in Nepal.
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READ MOREDec. 9, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
SchoolTool packaging for NEXS
In our continual effort of improving our systems and providing tools to support digital education, we were presented with a new requirement — providing schools a software based tool for classroom management and grading. After evaluating a few available tools, we encountered SchoolTool which was the foremost candidate meeting most of our criteria:
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READ MORENov. 25, 2010 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Earthing and other measures to protect for network devices
OLE Nepal’s team of network engineers have been putting a lot of effort into connecting all 26 program schools in six districts to a school intranet. Amongst many advantages of such a network are the facility to monitor and update school servers remotely from OLE Nepal office and the ability to establish free and direct communication link between the schools and OLE Nepal.