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GCE Student Exchange Alumni Provides Computer and Internet Training for Girls School in Bangladesh |
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The Global Connections and Exchange Program has once again created a stir among the students. After the tremendous success of the Student Exchange organized in May 2009, GCE students still continue to benefit from the program as the participants of the exchange program have lived up to their promises of sharing their newly acquired skills and knowledge with their peers.
One of these participants recently lead a 3 days long computer and internet training session held to train students of Joydevpur Government Girls’ High School in Gazipur. The student exchange alumni aimed to transfer knowledge to their peers in innovative and exciting ways as it is done in US schools, and this new approach further fuelled the students’ enthusiasm and made the entire training much more enjoyable for all. The training was held at Rani Bilashmoni Government Boys’ High School where the 5 volunteers conducted the session.
The three days long session covered topics ranging from basic hardware information, creating email accounts and checking mail to other general methods of web browsing. The students also received hands on training on online collaborative projects and were introduced to RI SOL’s current online project engaging Bangladeshi and American students.
12 students from each school participated in the training, and all these 24 participants had mastered the lessons given to them by the end of the third day. Needless to say, participants found this training particularly stimulating given the fact that the trainers were not teachers, but rather their own peers. This occasion was a celebration of the fact that years of diligence of the Joydevpur Government Girls’ High School has paid off remarkably well. The girls of the school have always been so keen to participate in the GCE activities that they used the Internet Lab at Rani Bilashmoni to do so. Finally, their efforts have been rewarded by the state of the art computer lab that they have received from the Bangladesh Computer Council under the Ministry of Science and ICT. It is fully equipped with multimedia, high speed internet and computers, anything and everything that the students could have asked for. Now after the training, they are more ready than ever to put their skills to further use.
RI officials were also present at the training sessions to motivate the volunteer trainers and participants. As always the GCE students thoroughly enjoyed the activities, and signed off with more plans to employ other creative programs in their schools. |
