192 Entries for “Recent Blogs”
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READ MOREDec. 16, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
Notes from Nepal's OLPC Deployments
We conducted four days of teacher training off-site and five days on-site in the classroom with both the students and teachers. A large portion of our teachers had never used a computer before but they learned very quickly. Their enthusiasm was amazing. Training during the off-site sessions formally ended at 5:30 pm but the teachers stayed in our training room each night until 11 pm, pounding away on the XO's and asking endless questions.
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READ MOREDec. 9, 2008 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Get your car to squeak: Second OLPC Game Jam
Today, Ace Institute of Management hosted the second OLPC Game Jam organized by OLE Nepal. Students and enthusiasts from various schools got a chance to learn the basics of Squeak to create simple applications. Participants were shown how to make a simple car game. Each participant had to get a car moving with a steering wheel controlling its motion. A simple script would then give it a more authentic game feel by making the car move faster on the track and decelerate when it strayed off the track.
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READ MOREOct. 19, 2008 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Deploying Volunteers
You may have read Rabi’s recent post about the formative evaluation of our test schools Vishwamitra Ganesh and Bashuki. We are proud of the progress we have made and are now starting to focus on expanding OLPC to more Nepali schools in spring 2009. Our current plan is to expand from one district to five districts (equivalent to a state of province) and roughly 10-15 schools. Technical support for our current two schools within driving distance of the office has not been particularly challenging or time-consuming. However, supporting schools in five distinct regions of Nepal poses a tremendous challenge.
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READ MORESept. 28, 2008 | None | Rabi Karmacharya
Formative Evaluation of OLPC Project Nepal: A Summary
This is a summary of the findings of a formative evaluation carried out by Mr. Uttam Sharma, a doctoral student at at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. The evaluation was carried out for OLE Nepal's internal purpose. The results are expected to help learn about the shortcomings of the current test phase of the OLPC project so that necessary fine tuning can be done before next year's larger deployment in more districts. Mr. Sharma can be reached at sharm061@umn.edu.Â
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READ MOREJuly 3, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
The Challenges of Electronic Reading
Last week, I spent a fair amount of time stumbling through the various available methods for reading on a computer. Our current method is that of the .pdf. Well, if your are at all like me, you hate reading a .pdf soft-copy. I always end up printing the damn thing, so I can sit down and mark it up. This option obviously won’t work in Nepali schools, because they don’t have access to a printer, and even if they did, it would not be cost effective.