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READ MOREApril 8, 2008 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
My experience with OLE-nepal
I am Manoj Ghimire from Bishwamitra Ganesh Lower Secondary School.I have been working in this school for last two years.I teach maths and science for the lower secondary level. I am also an ex-student of this school.When the school upgraded from primary level to the lower secondary level, they needed extra teachers but there wasn't any source to pay for the teachers.I worked as a volunteer for a year since,it is my school and my community.From last year onwards,I am working as a fulltime teacher.
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READ MOREMarch 31, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
Teacher Training Begins!
Saurav Dev Bhatta, Bipul Gautam, and Kamana Regmi designed the teacher training program. Sulochan Acharya and Bryan Berry provided technical assistance. Bipul is the lead teacher trainer and is steeped in the theories and practices of different educational schools but Vygotskian Social Cognition and Piaget’s theories of development have influenced him the most.
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READ MOREMarch 30, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
Teacher Training Starts – Technical Notes
I will be writting alot about this weekend’s 4-day teacher training program. We are training 24 teachers from Bashuki and Bishwamitra schools and roughly 7 individual from Nepal’s government education bodies. Here are just some quick technical notes.
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READ MOREMarch 25, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
integrating math and Xo
The second day of the training by OLE Nepal had a session to give the participants a touch of how the Xo can be integrated in the class. An activity on developing the concept of addition was done for about one and a half hour.The activity was about developing the concept of counting and adding. the first thing they did was colour pictures on picture cards. Then they used the same cards to play a winning and losing game by drawing a card, counting the number, counting the same number of beans, adding the beans, writing the mathematical sentence. The player who got the larger number won all the beans. Then came the role of the XO where a game with the same concept was played and students got to assess themselves through the score that was displayed in the screen.
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READ MOREMarch 23, 2008 | None | OLE Nepal
How to (hack) customize a built for XO.
The problem we faced: We needed a customized build for all our XOs that would have the default language set to Nepali, the default jabber server set to a local server, a set of activities to match the grade level of students, and some other settings. We've been working with OLPC developers to get a script that would automatically apply these configurations at installation time so we didn't have to do it manually for every machine. Additionally, we wanted to make sure that teachers with limited technical knowledge could comfortably re-flash the XO if needed.