Bijra High School

It has been a while since the last update ……

Bijra High project finally started with a good thrust. After a grand inauguration which created all the buzz. there were quit a number of news media covering bijra high school project .

Some of them are .

Etv Bangla : The Bengali  counterpart of Etv network .the video has been uploaded in youtube.you can find it here

Express News : a local channel to Durgapur ..but its network is being used by kolkata TV .you can find the video here

Indian Express  : A pic is here

More to come

At last final preps are over , on 14 th we are having the delivery of 5 machines from WBUT .

On 15 th a inauguration will be held where chief guest will be Vice chancellor of WBUT , Prof Ashok Ranjan Thakur .  Along with other administrative officials of the city.

At last we had computers ready to be hand over to Bijra High School. For we had 21 days of our July and August dedicated to preparing and testing Bijra High School’s computers. WBUT ( West Bengal University of Technology ) had promised us to donate 5 Computers including a server ,so that Bijra dont get deprived of facilities .

In the 21 days and also few of our previous weekends we.the members of dgplug and students of BCREC had intensive training regarding implementation and testing of LTSP under Indranil Das Gupta.

Our server is of configuration:

Its a HCL infinity Pro BL1230 with 1024 MB of RAM and Asus Combo drive

Our clients were 3 Dell Optiplex GX110 PIII machines with 128 MB of RAM and one IBM NetVista 6647.

In our training course we tested Local Audio, Local Device access like USB Drive, FDD and CDROM.

Some thing that were of real interest is FL_Teacher Tool which allow a instructor to have complete control over his fleet of machines.

We also had a Kiwix (offlineWikipedia), WordNet 3.0( Dictionary) , Kushal Das’s Tutorial .

Our Choice of Distro was Fedora 7(Moonshine) and we implemented LTSP4.2u2.

See here for kiwix

See here for FL_Teacher Tool

See here for WordNet

See here for our project Report. (coming soon)

It has been quit a while,that we last updated this blog.

Today we decided to plan the setup for the computers that we are recieving from wbut.

did a little bit of measurement for our ethernet setup.

hopefully setup will be completed by this week or the next ,so that we can resume with more power than before.

Today was a wonderful day in Bijra,Sunny weather,clear sky,fresh air and last but not the list we encountered a fresh bunch of students. Just being promoted from primary to secondary these students have never seen a Computer before.With request from Nizam Sir,we took a special class of these students.

we showed them what different thing a computer can do,from paint to song ,from word processor to edutainment.

Guess what ??      they are simply” WOW” ed. Here is a pic..

Today after so many days went to Bijra. While nothing has changed in this 2 months except class 10 has forgot everything( very disappointing) ,we found class 9( previously class 8 ) a very good class which if moulded can been taken above limits. Today did some interactive study using Kbruch,kolorpaint and Xmms.

Here are some pics.

Bijra High School has reopened today with little bit of changes.

School has got its timing changed instead of being a day school any more it has changed to a morning school (School Timings:- 7:00 AM to 11:00 Am ).

So after a long break our project continues………………….

bijra high school is currently having their annual exam. so we are unable to continue our work there. school will reopen again from may 3rd. so our blog may have a little bit stagnency.

On 7th March 2007,Vice chancellor of West Bengal University Of technology came for a look at DGPLUG’s progress .these are the picture’s .the schoole organised a very small fuction in association to his visit. Subhodip( beton ) and Soumya went there for the event.Ajitesh was stuck due to some problem.

from left we have, side view of bijra high school, VC giving a small talk,VC along with Indranil Das Gupta and principle of the school.

To make them understand different computer and free software related terms we are facing real time grilling. Actually our first test came just on Day 2 when we started teaching them what is network and what are servers and clients. Ajitesh gave a example of Doctors and Patients and one Doctor serving several patients as Server and Clients. I think Ajitesh Acted finely as again giving a nice example of presence of mind. Actually our skills of giving examples are improving day by day and thanks to the students of the school.

The next big deal was to make them understand what is a password and why do we use it ? Actually we had to give a example which they have seen in real life, So I choose taking the example of key combination locks and even number locks. I think the idea behind using password will not be very clear till they have a hands on, till they now know what is password and why using it. The next stunning thing which happened is a boy while telling this told “amar monehoy password anekta mobile phone er PIN er moton” which in english means that I think password is something like the PIN in mobile phones. Beleive me I was really shocked as we are teaching someone about password of computers and he is replying with PIN of mobile phones is strange…Then he told something which make us feel ki getting shocked is something which we shud make habbit. When he was asked about how do you know about PIN He told “asole mobile hate niye dekechi tai jani, computer thakleo sike jetam” which in English means I have seen mobile and used it if i would have used computers i would learn this things too. After this i think i am not in a state of commenting on his line and so i kept mum.

Beton on day 3 again sprang up with typical examples of his own. While they were learning about DESKTOP the buttons on a paricular window etc etc. While explaining maximization of a window and after maximization of window same button acting as restore Beton told them ” tomra KBC dekecho ?? ” which means in eng ki “Did u people saw KBC ?? ” most of nodded +vely (i m happy that SRK has so many fans even here asme too is a fan of him ) , then beton said ” KBC te jerokom bhabe 20000Rs er por akta lifeline ashe serokom bhabe maximize howar porei oitai restore button hoy na hole hoy na” translating which stands as As in KBC after 20000Rs a new lifeline comes but doesnt come before samely maximize button becomes restore only after maximization not before that. Beleive me till the whole example was given i didnt have a hint of this type being a example but i am happy that students did understood the fact KBC and the buttons in a window :)) .

We r carrying around finely we need a little pace, hope we get it soon.