We left at 7.30 am from Pitakumbura to attend the meeting called by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka on 14th of July 2009 at the Mahanama National School in Monaragala, Southern, Sri Lanka.
The meeting was to summarize the teacher training program for the around one lack of teachers those who do not have the Information Communication Technology literacy in Sri Lanka.
ICT facilitator to the Monaragala education zone described how he implemented the program under the guidance of IT unit at the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Thilakarathna, Co-ordinator-ICT in the Department of Education, Uva made a speech on the importance of ICT and he is willing to help all to success the programs.
Mr. Jayawardhana, assistant director in the Department of Education, Uva described their activities , such as ICT camps,ICT societies and the Accellerated Learning Camps (ALC) which is funded by the World Bank. And he introduced the online data base of the Uva- Education Department, it is
Mr. Saman from Mahanama National School, Monaragala asked every one to help them to success the effort success of this voluntary service.
Mr. Neel Gunadasa told that the importance of hardware pool of the schools. First batch of the members trained through the Sri Lankan universities. Then they had a 2 day workshop on monitor repairing at the SLIDA centre in Hatton.
The objective is to solve the hardware inquiries through the school by itself voluntarily.
He introduced the Learn TV , an educational channel via Dialog TV is started transmissions now. Channel 78 in the Dialog satellite TV connections can watch the programs and can contribute to the programs. Analyzing the productivity of this channel that they will initiate a dedicated education TV channel.
He is to train teachers on Ubuntu and Ubuntu related education soft wares.
The MOE is testing an online data base management software in the Kurunegala area and is to introduce other Sri Lankan schools soon.
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project is going on and one school in the Uva province is selected now. All the teachers and the child will own a laptop. The primary schools below hundred children is selected to the project.
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