Ujjwol Lamichhane

This is an field report of ”Refresher Training for Teachers in Kavre” in which I had gone with Rajeev Adhikari (OLE Nepal Lead Person).

Day 1

November 22, 2009 at 6:45 I reached the Open Learning Exchange(OLE) Nepal’s office in Sanepa. The taxi was scheduled to come at that time but came at 7:20. No matter what, I got into and we picked up the trainer Girman Thapa (NCED) and with Rajeev Dai (OLE Nepal Lead Person) we were headed to Dhulikhel, Kavre. In the way, at Banepa due to some issues there was an partial Banepa Banda. We were lucky enough that we took alternative route and reached Dhulikhel. But the participants of the training we not that lucky, most of them didn’t made the time of 9:00 AM. We set up the power cables and stationaries for the participants. And around 12 all the participants made it to the ETC Training Center. But the worst part came when the school server and brought but not the power cable, so we had to change the sessions to move the sessions needing school server for the next day. The lunch at local restaurant was great in the warm sun of Dhulikhel. After the session, Rajeev dai and I had a long talk on everything. After than I went for my first dream at Kavre.

Educational Training Center Kavre, our training Venue

Day2

November 23, 2009: All the participants reached at time and after the breakfast the session started smoothly. They had also brought the power cable with them. As the session went on, i started updating the school server and did technical other stuffs like fixing some of the teacher’s XO. This day everyone were comfortable with time, session and everything. Today the sessions on pustakalya was also done. Many teachers had never explored the pustakalaya before. They were taught on how to view videos from pustakalya, they explored the video gallerly. I taught them about the video player’s controls and stuffs. Many liked the it and said that the children had already done that. After some pustakalya session, many sessions on Epaath and combined teaching and a tasty lunch, day two was done. All were informed to meet at Janajyoti Ma Vi, Janagal. That day, after the session Rajeev Dai and I went towards to take some cool and fresh air of panauti.

Helping the participants

Day3

November 24, 2009: We were headed to Janajyoti Ma Vi, Janagal. At Janajyoti all teachers according to yesterday’s plan were getting ready to take classes and some to monitor and observe. I went to Class 2, and sat on a bench besides one boy. The teacher was teaching Nepali, and after some introduction the teacher told to bring, unfold and open Epaath in their Epati. At that time, I asked who didn’t have the C bundle or have other issues with Epati. All the class at once, pointed to around 3/4 students. The teacher told them to give those XO’s to me and focus on class. I started NAND blasting on those XO and all the issues were fixed by the end of that class. Those students were happy to get their XO working as normal. After that, I went to class 3 and fixed around 3/4 XO. And then I went to Class 6 where I had to fix around 14 XO. Thank God.:) All were fixed. After the teaching session was over, we had an spicy snacks. All the teachers and trainer’s except me started to review and discuss how they did the combined teaching. I was bored. And I went to Class 2 and there I talked with them for around 30 mins and after than I had to copy the national anthem to eveyone’s XO(There is an interesting story about that, which I will blog later). The same in Class 3 and Class 6, I had to insert the national anthem to XO of eveything single student and I did that, quite fast. In Class 6, they asked me on what to make passwords for email address. I gave some random tricks and we had a long discussion on the usability(Of course, without the term usability) of XO, Sugar UI and all other XO things. Many were fascinated when, I taught them how to know time using XO. After then making every student happy, i joined the teacher’s session. And left the Janagal at around 4 with Ananta sir. The day was cool and awesome for me and I think for the student’s too.

Me with Class 2 Students at Janajyoti Ma Vi Janagal

Day4

November 25,2009: The last day of the training, almost all came in time. Today all of them had brought the school server from their school. I started updating them. And after a session on yesterday’s review. And one session from Anata, I was asked to take session. Though I hadn’t thought and planned on it, I agreed and took the first lesson on how to update Epaathi and other activities. After the session almost all were confident that they can do it now by themselves. Subir dai came and added on the update process allowing me must time to focus on training. That day I took around 3 sessions, fast and making easy as I felt. I happy felt happy and knew that knowledge increases on sharing. After that, we allowed them to practice and ask question. After a long question answer session by me, and other session by Rajeev Dai, Griman Sir and Ananta Sir. The training ended. The teacher left ETC with updated XO and Schoolserver and great deals on minds. We left Kavre, with a great experience in mind.

Teaching at the training

Rajeev Dai adding to my session

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