Saturday, May 29, 2010

Relfashing XO's or something else?

I started OLPC rwanda internship at Kagugu Primary school where we primarily reflashed XO laptops. Desire, Adrien, Claude, Tiffany and I reflashed more computers day after day. At first we reflashed few computers in a long time, mostly because we had only two flash drive that had the new software in it. However, later, we customized more flash sticks and updated all the laptops at the school.

Other than this necessary but backbreaking job, i had little experince assisting and training teachers. I noticed that it will be much better if they get trained daily, because it's the best way to increase their capacity of learning. So far, my favorite tools in the XOs are E-toys (which helps creating a book-looking features and programming visually) and Scratch (it gives a very easy and useful way to do visual programming especially game programming for kids).
Therefore my visions are to use this new methodology of improving the ease of learning among teachers and to help teachers and kids how to write logical codes. I wish they all become able to make programs that not only prove that they can use XOs but also helpful in developing the education of the rwandan future genii.