Hi,<br><br>I have two books -<br> 1. "Internet in easy steps" (English) .<br> 2. "Know your Desktop" (English) from Aptech which has an introduction to Word, Excel and Powerpoint.<br><br>Also, in the market there are these "in easy steps" books for Word, Excel, Windows XP, Linux, <br>
Powerpoint, Office 2003, Languages like C, Java, Photoshop etc. Other such small introductory books are <br>Flash: An Introduction, CorelDraw: An Introduction.<br><br>I can get a 1 or 2 of them and send it. But kindly do specify which of the above are relevant for the<br>
current curriculum and the mailing address.<br> <br>regards,<br>Sandesh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) <<a href="mailto:sensunda@cisco.com">sensunda@cisco.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi All,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Things have kind of started. We have hired a
teacher from the community . A ITI computer student. She will teach 3 hours in
the evening and then on Sundays.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We are currently training the teacher, Kalapana and
two other students mani and prabhu who are very keen to learn. They in turn
teach the others.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">See a detailed report below on whats happening an
how you can help. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><br><font face="Arial" size="2">cheers<br>c3 team <br></font><a href="http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/team" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/team</font></a></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Articles<br>--------<span>-------</span><br>Is a slum computer center really
needed</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><a href="http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/Is+a+slum+tution+center+really+useful" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/Is+a+slum+tution+center+really+useful</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sensex hit a new low today<br></font><a href="http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/Songs" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/Songs</font></a></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><br><font face="Arial" size="2">TRAINING and QUALITY
improvement<br>----------------------------------<span>-------------------------</span><br>Will be the foucs
for the coming 4 months. From the AID Chennai experience it looks like it will
take about 4-6 months to converge on some minimum quality.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We intend to keep this program as a pilot. We want
to see some distinct differnce after the intervention.<br>If we are able to do
the same then we can think of scaling after 4-5 months.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">TIMINGS<br>----------<br>You can meet us in the
center Mon , Wed, Fri : 6.30 to 9.00 p.m and Sunday : 2.00 p.m-6.p.m. Other days
there will be regular classes.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">LANGAUGE NOT A CONSTRAINT : Pulkit
experience<br>-------------------------------------------------<br>Oh the other
good thing is that Pulkit did his first class on friday . He is basically from
Gujrat and we ha d the fear that language might be a constraint. We gave
it a shot. He tried with English and it seems to work to a large
extent.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Things needed:<br>----------------</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">HARDWARE REPAIR<br>------------------<br>1) We need
some one with hardware repair skills to troubleshoot the 2 comps which have some
issues. If you know a commercial computer hardware engineer who can help thats
also good. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">COMPUTER NEEDED<br>-----------------<br>2)
After March the exams will be over. Then it might be good to have another
comp and UPS. We have a promise for the UPS already. We need a
computer</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">BOOKS NEEDED<br>----------------<br>3) Good
Computer Basics books : if some one who knows kannada can go to some place like
Swapna book store and get a set of good computer books. Not hi fi ones but basic
books. In tamil there is a book on how a computer works and internet by Sujatha
who just passed away. Such books make a interesting read an are ver helpful to
the students in quality improvement. However any book is good. Especially ones
which suggest a lot of practical things for the student to try.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Also books in English are good.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Visit </font></div>
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<div><a href="http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/Curriculum" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://slumdweller.wikispaces.com/Curriculum</font></a></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">for the topics on which you should buy
books.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><br><font face="Arial"><font size="2">GNU LINUX Currciulum
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You know that we use the skill set exercise model
developed by AID Chennai .</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We would like to have the GNU/LINUX curriculum
equivalent of the skill set model. This is not very difficult and for a good
GNU-LINUX person it might take less than a day to develop.</font></div>
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