TBC1.6

Our third week of classes came to a close today. We have one final week where students will be encouraged to consolidate their learning and do something independently. Overall, it has been a fascinating experience and one that has resulted in a few different learning outcomes. Some of the students have progressed rapidly and have even completed advanced excercises in excel and powerpoint (or OpenOffice Calc and Impress respectively).

A stiff challenge still remains in trying to address students with minimal literacy skills and consequent learning difficulties. It will require a fair amount of thinking to enhance their learning experience. At present, these students tend to stagnate at the point where they keep typing in different pieces of text in notepad/word. However, since they struggle with English, this may not be the best method and an alternative approach using other tools/applications may in fact lead to more improvement for these women.

Lastly, I would like to comment on the teachers/aides that have helped out during these lessons. Madelina has done some basic set up and tear down and helped some students with basic typing skills. Genifer has helped one or two students with their excercises. She is able to grasp new excercises very quickly and makes a good effort to help them as much as possible. Kamili has taught computer applications in the past and has also helped with a few classes. Going forward, we may look into providing training for teachers so that we can build a stronger set of potential teachers who can deliver future classes and are more aware of the raison d'etre of inherIT

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1
Participants: 6 (Lynne, Angela Rashid, Eamon, Kumuthini, Kokhila, Ariet )
Course Handouts: None
Computers Used: 5 (+1, Lynne bought her own laptop)