OLPC India/DBF/Bangalore.Parikrma
Your Insight to OLPC Pilot Site at Bangalore
About the Pilot 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/
Students awaiting XO at Parikrma school
Launching of XO at Bangalore
Handing over First XO to the school head KALPANA SINGH
A Look at XO
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 there interest to have 120 laptops for there centre. While the meeting was on and we were explaining them the features of XO laptop suddenly we had there 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 there 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.
Key Educational Links
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_activity_guidelines
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sample_learning_activities