Dear Friends,
In order to strengthen our campaigns to migrate schools in India to free software we must understand current situation. This mail is a request for volunteers from around the country to document current situation.
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel free to modify.
1. State Name 2. Organisation setting the curriculum 3. Contact Details 4. Website
5. Curriculum details 5.a. Does curriculum includes IT/CS - Yes/No 5.b. Is IT/CS a compulsory subject - Yes/No 5.c. Does the curriculum specify any particular software - 5.d Is IT/CS an optional subject ? - Yes/No
6. IT/CS Syllabus 6.a. Does the syllabus specify software - Yes/No 6.b. Is it based on - Free Software/Proprietary Software/Both/
7. Other information 7.a. Is there an external agency for IT training - Yes/No 7.b. Is there any training being provided to teachers -
regards arun
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
Dear Friends,
In order to strengthen our campaigns to migrate schools in India to free software we must understand current situation. This mail is a request for volunteers from around the country to document current situation.
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel free to modify.
State Name
Organisation setting the curriculum
Contact Details
Website
Curriculum details
5.a. Does curriculum includes IT/CS - Yes/No 5.b. Is IT/CS a compulsory subject - Yes/No 5.c. Does the curriculum specify any particular software - 5.d Is IT/CS an optional subject ? - Yes/No
- IT/CS Syllabus
6.a. Does the syllabus specify software - Yes/No 6.b. Is it based on - Free Software/Proprietary Software/Both/
- Other information
7.a. Is there an external agency for IT training - Yes/No 7.b. Is there any training being provided to teachers -
Arun, also see the work we collectively done on FCI wikia : A review of Proprietary mentions in Syllabus all over the country
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Syllabus_Review
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel free to modify.
Thats great. Seems that good amount of work has been done already. Can we contact the volunteers who had worked on this document to add some more data to enable us to contact these organisation ?
regards, arun
"Arun M" arun@gnu.org.in writes:
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel free to modify.
Thats great. Seems that good amount of work has been done already. Can we contact the volunteers who had worked on this document to add some more data to enable us to contact these organisation ?
That wiki page was started as per the initiations from venkitesh hariharan , and with the support of anivar and praveen. I have been working on the wiki by searching over the internet first to complete on all school curriculum. My own curriculum/academics came in between which pressured me to pause the work for a while. It was aimed to be completed in a month. But short of volunteers lead it to a pause. But for last one week, I have been re-initiating the work. Am trying to finish the state level school sylabi. It will be great if we can continue the work, then we can very easily complete the work in this year itself.
Regards Shyam K
My own curriculum/academics came in between which pressured me to pause the work for a while. It was aimed to be completed in a month. But short of volunteers lead it to a pause. But for last one week, I have been re-initiating the work. Am trying to finish the state level school sylabi. It will be great if we can continue the work, then we can very easily complete the work in this year itself.
Hi Syam,
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us in sending representations and to followup. We can also request our friends in other states to collect information from respective states.
regards arun
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
Hi Syam,
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us in sending representations and to followup. We can also request our friends in other states to collect information from respective states.
i will also try get karnataka state's syllabus -- ( covering all the universities also ) -- but it may take some time to format , please pardon me for that
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Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us in sending representations and to followup. We can also request our friends in other states to collect information from respective states.
i will also try get karnataka state's syllabus -- ( covering all the universities also ) -- but it may take some time to format , please pardon me for that
I think our priority should be schools. We wont be able to flight all the battles at the same time.
regards arun
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
Can you make a page with the structure I've sent ? That will help us in sending representations and to followup. We can also request our friends in other states to collect information from respective states.
i will also try get karnataka state's syllabus -- ( covering all the universities also ) -- but it may take some time to format , please
pardon
me for that
I think our priority should be schools. We wont be able to flight all the battles at the same time.
thats fine -- let us work towards that only
regards arun
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Arun M arun@gnu.org.in wrote:
We need to collect information from every state and document it is a public wiki. I suggest following format for collection of data. Feel free to modify.
Thats great. Seems that good amount of work has been done already. Can we contact the volunteers who had worked on this document to add some more data to enable us to contact these organisation ?
Yes Sure. It was venky's idea. Shyam leaded the efforts. Please Discuss in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/education-discuss-fosscom.in All volunteers Contributed to this effort is part of this list
I feel we need to use this data for the ongoing discussions on National policy on ICT 4 Education .
Anivar
regards, arun
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