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==About the Site== |
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Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a nonprofit company aiming to help the poorest of the poor break their cycle of poverty and to enable them to live meaningfully.http://www.parikrmafoundation.org/ |
Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a nonprofit company aiming to help the poorest of the poor break their cycle of poverty and to enable them to live meaningfully.http://www.parikrmafoundation.org/ |
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30 XO laptops are deployed for their Adobe Learning Centre. |
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[[image:Olpc-bangalore7.JPG|thumb|300px|[[Media:Olpc-bangalore7.JPG|actual size]]|center|Parikrma Centre for Learning]] |
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Image:students.jpg|Students awaiting XO at Parikrma school |
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Image:sss.jpg|Launching of XO at Bangalore |
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Image:launch.jpg|Handing over First XO to the school head KALPANA SINGH |
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Image:abc.jpg|A Look at XO |
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==Demographics of the Site and School== |
==Demographics of the Site and School== |
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Revision as of 06:36, 16 September 2008
Your Insight to OLPC Pilot Site at Bangalore
About the Site
Parikrma Humanity Foundation is a nonprofit company aiming to help the poorest of the poor break their cycle of poverty and to enable them to live meaningfully.http://www.parikrmafoundation.org/ 30 XO laptops are deployed for their Adobe Learning Centre.
Demographics of the Site and School
School Name : Parikrma Center for Learning
Establishment Year : 2003
Education Board : ICSE
Type(Municipal/Government/Private): Parikrma Humanity Foundation (Private)
Location: 7 kms from Bangalore Station (South Bangalore)
Nearest Railway Station: Bangalore
Address: Jayanagar, Bangalore
School In-charge: Kalpana Singh
Affiliation: Parikrma Humanity Foundation, Bangalore
Timings
8.15 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.( Monday-Friday) 08.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.( Saturday)
Holiday Calendar: As per Karnataka State Education Department
Number of Teachers/Administration staff: 14
Start of the Project
The foundation has planned to deploy 120 laptops for all its four centres. The laptops would be given to kids of second grade.
Participants
Express your Views
23rd April :- On having the meeting with Parikrma Foundation Founder-CEO and Marketing Head we learned their interest to have 120 laptops for their centre. While the meeting was on and we were explaining them the features of XO laptop suddenly we had their soccer team arrived. There were all smiling faces around because they had won.Atmosphere was really electrifying.And then we had the CEO giving them candies for their achievement.
After that we had a look at their Computer Labs which would be used by the kids to surf internet, play games etc. I was of the opinion that they could have their lab shifted to Open Source OS like Ubuntu etc. We did have a little discussion on it. After that we had look at there e-learning classroom which they have equipped well enough to enable to learning for distant centres.
Linux User Group - Bangalore
Key Educational Links
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_guidelines
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sample_learning_activities