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Notes on EPAKE School content support

Chris Rowe
Chris Rowe 9:52pm Thu Jan 14

Chris Rowe's notes from a chat with Jacques Murinda:

The school

  • School has ~700 students but only ~350 at a time
  • 45 children per classroom and one classroom per grade (1 morning 1 afternoon for a total of 90 students per grade)
  • School begins some time if Feb.
  • Goood infrastructure (electricity)
  • No internet, but it is in a populated part of Kigali that has internet

 

The school laptops

  • ~400 that stay at the school and are shared by the 2 groups of students

OLE Rwanda Project

  • Start project in beginning of March
  • OLE Rwanda is localizing Math and English for grades P1, P2, and P3
  • The project will work will both morning and afternoon groups in the first 3 grades for a total of 270 students, but only 135 are at school at any given time.
  • The Library server will need to handle 135 students connecting to it at any give time.
  • Siyavula content will be printed

Next steps

  • Tony will be in Rwanda around Feb. 21-28
  • Jacques will find out more details about the schools IT configuration and future plans for an XS server and internet access.
  • Chris, Tony and Jacques will meet to discuss technical requirements of the project.
Chris Rowe
Chris Rowe 10:20pm Thu May 27

Email from Jacque to Richard:

Today I was contacted by GLP/USAID/REC program manager based in Washington who is in Rwanda right now who told me that a proposal for pilot project for integrated library that I submitted and discussed with USAID Rwanda was going to be funded. However they recommended reducing the budget to conduct the pilot in 3 schools not 20 Schools as I suggested.
Chris Rowe
Chris Rowe 10:22pm Fri May 28

Email from Jacques for Chris:

regarding the library and ( small pilot project that USAID is funding) is mostly about accessing education content on OLPC and training teachers to use outcome based materials is what we are doing right now at EPAK School. Basically Siyavula content is available on a Schoolserver. To be used we have to download learn activity (that has modules) from MD and then download modules to OLPC and open activities. Tony set up the system on the server we are currently working on downloading the learner activity to OLPC, we tried in a classroom but it was taking long so we are doing it separately so that teacher and students will have to access easily activities. We still have some challenges but we believe that it will work quit well once we have done the current set of taks.
The second part of the integrated library is mostly focusing in delivering content using printed document since very few schools still have OLPC. I will send you the proposal submitted to USAID.