Report on vacation training for students, 21st April
Venue: Sacred Hearts Girls Higher Secondary School, Muthalakkodam, Thodupuzha
Date: 21st to 25th April
Number of students: 62
ILUG Cochin has successfully conducted a five day training program for the students of Thodupuzha Educational District. The training started on 21st. There were 65 students in total. They were from 8th and 9th class. The camp was organized by District Educational Office (DEO), Thodupuzha at Sacred Heart Girl’s High School, Muthalakkodam, Thodupuzha.
The aim of the training camp was to help students in creating and maintaining a website/blog using WordPress and how to use GIMP for editing pictures before uploading it to a website. WordPress, one of the most popular blogging software, help people to create blogs/website without having any knowledge in HTML or programming.
The students were not aware of sending and receving email. So we decided to help students in creating email accounts and taught them how to send and receive email. We have given appropriate informations on how to use emails securely. The need for signing out and keeping passwords hidden from others were also explained.
We could also help teachers in using WordPress and GIMP. At the end of the camp some of the students and teachers were able to create there own blogs. The camp ended on 25th.
Team members:
Binny
Venkat
Harikrishnan
Manu
Sreenadh
Some outputs from the camp
http://tribalpoomala.wordpress.com/
http://vishakhnarayanan.wordpress.com/
The above blogs are not complete. Since majority of the students have no pc at home they won’t be able to post immediately.
Let us hope they will add more contents after the school reopening.
