TBC1.4

In today's class, we had a total of 11 students! We had 6 laptops and a large excess of people. Some women were asked to work in groups and others were given their own laptops. For the most part, the women did not mind but it is something that needs to be addressed more clearly for future classes. I may not have said this explicitly in the past, but our classes till now have demonstrated that weak students often benefit a lot more from working in groups - so although this is a concern, not one that diminishes their learning. Also, the solution is to get some of them to do some learning excercises without the computer.

Most of our students worked on the bullets and numbering excercise today as well as trying out power point presentation.

I had two new people walk into the class today - due to their friends telling them of the classes. It was heartening but also an eye opener. Although a large amount of research and strategising has gone into defining inherIT's aims and primary objective - there is a certain energy that one derives when you see confirmation of your views/analysis.

It is slowly becoming evident that these classes are a viable and very much needed service. Our primary concern at this point is trying to get the process and model in place. If the classes can become more streamlined, the next step would be getting additional instructors and establishing a few locations where regular classes or learning centres would be open to the public. Perhaps this is a premature discussion but one that I thought to put down today.

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 2
Participants: 11 (Lynne, Angela Rashid, Rebecca Oman, Hakima Kur, Eamon, Kumuthini, Kokhila, Priya, Abuk, Ariet, Rawda )
Course Handouts: None
Computers Used: 6 (+1, Lynne bought her own laptop)