Napsal uživatel Jiří Sázel dne .
Dear Brother Jirka Sazel,
Thank you so
much for your letter. We are glad that you are coming this year along
with Mr Honza Zemen and other volunteer friends. We begin our summer
vacations on 6th July as usual every year. However for the information
technology classes we shall have a special time plan set up so that the
students could benefit most. Last year was a good experience and
experiment and repeating in a similar way will be good with some extra
inputs which we can have while you are hear. One thing that I really
want to promote is the e-learning among the children in our school.
Since we now have a broadband connection we might be able to begin on
that. I do not know much about the things that would be involved but
have seen it working in one institution. Would that be possible for
your team to plan it in the trip of Ladakh?
I have told Mr Ashraf about your coming and I am sure that you too are keeping in touch with him.
All the best and our greetings to Brother Jan Zemen.
With regards,
Rev Elijah Gergan
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Jiří Sázel <Jiri.Sazel@seznam.cz> wrote:
Dear Reverend Gergan
I would like to inform you that group of volunteers from The Czech Republic are coming to Ladakh at the turn of June and July. The first group will arrive on 28.6. and the second 7.7.
Parallelly with planning long-lasting project La-Ngonpo with Honza Zemen, as a volunteer coordinator I have to organize classes of information technology for this year, which will be in similar style as previous year. Briefly it means we will teach children how to use digital camera, edit photographs and share photos at web site La-Ngonpo. To provide this course I have to know, when is yours summer holidays. Based on previous year we expect lessons at 9th class, which will be before and after school and with 70 pupils at all. If you have some idea, how we can make better concept of classes, or if you want to make any changes compared to previous year just let me know. Technical details we will solve with Ashraf – if it is possible.
From our pleasant experience from previous year, we want visit hostel Linchet, or maybe take children on some trip (in a style visit monasteries or sightseeing or trip to lake connected with activities at place . . .). We are expecting cover costs of trip. Please give me response, if there is a change to manage it.
I´m looking forward for your response
Best regards from The Czech Republic
Jirka Sázel
Dear Reverend Gergan
I would like to inform you that group of volunteers from The Czech Republic are coming to Ladakh at the turn of June and July. The first group will arrive on 28.6. and the second 7.7.
Parallelly with planning long-lasting project La-Ngonpo with Honza Zemen, as a volunteer coordinator I have to organize classes of information technology for this year, which will be in similar style as previous year. Briefly it means we will teach children how to use digital camera, edit photographs and share photos at web site La-Ngonpo. To provide this course I have to know, when is yours summer holidays. Based on previous year we expect lessons at 9th class, which will be before and after school and with 70 pupils at all. If you have some idea, how we can make better concept of classes, or if you want to make any changes compared to previous year just let me know. Technical details we will solve with Ashraf – if it is possible.
From our pleasant experience from previous year, we want visit hostel Linchet, or maybe take children on some trip (in a style visit monasteries or sightseeing or trip to lake connected with activities at place . . .). We are expecting cover costs of trip. Please give me response, if there is a change to manage it.
I´m looking forward for your response
Best regards from The Czech Republic
Jirka Sázel
From: Jan Zemen <janzemen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Subject: Development education exchange project - 2nd step
To: Elijah Gergan <esgergan@gmail.com>
Dear Reverend Gergan,
I have the pleasure to inform you, that our project proposal passed
the first assessment round of the European Commission. We are now
expected to submit the full application.
There are two issues that I have to discuss with you before we can
complete the application and estimate the budget:
1) How many lessons per week can your students devote to the project work?
Our idea is that the 8th and 9th grades get involved with the project.
(The 10th grade is supposedly too busy with studying for the final
exams.)
We hope that the pupils could spend roughly 120 minutes of their
lesson time every week working on the project plus some home
assignments. Last summer the children had to participate in our course
before or after the main school blocks. It was only a one week course
so it was perfectly understandable, but since the proposed project
should run at least for three years, we would like to work on more
regular basis.
You may ask what type of skill or knowledge would the children gain
during the course. What subject is the project work most related to?
This question will be answered precisely by a team of experts
preparing the methodology in January-March 2010 during the first phase
of the project. At the moment it is clear that the students would be
expected to gain the basic computer skills (editing text documents or
presentations) as well as more advanced skills necessary to use the La
Ngonpo web interface developed within the project. More importantly,
the students should learn about the culture and life conditions in
other countries which falls into subjects such as multicultural,
global or environmental education here in Czech Republic but I am
afraid that in Ladakh you do not have similar subjects. In that case
the work could be understood as some kind of geography, history or
biology lesson.
Please let me know your opinion or further ideas concerning this
matter since now is the stage when the project can be tuned to your
expectations and needs so that your children can benefit from it the
most.
2) How many teachers can get involved?
We hope that Ashraf will be interested to participate in the project.
I am not sure if it would be possible for him to manage all the
project work especially if you decided to split it into more sessions
in different subjects. From our point of view, the most effective
solution is to have a smaller number of teachers (easier to train and
to communicate with) that devote most of their teaching time to the
project work. What are your preferences?
Perhaps it would be a good idea to discuss these issues on the phone.
If you wish, please suggest some suitable time and I will call you.
We look forward to your response!
Best regards from Prague!
Jan Zemen & colleagues
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