The Hindu 16.03.2013
IT training for Corporation staff
To foster the use of information technology among
workers of the Coimbatore Corporation, American Indian Foundation (AIF),
a non-profit organisation working across India, is organising a one-day
IT workshop on April 6.
The civic body’s Education
Department staff will be taking this workshop, which will be held at the
Corporation High School in Maniyakaranpalayam. A hi-tech
‘Dell-connected’ Smart Classroom equipped with a touch screen digital
board, projector, 25 laptops and three years of unlimited broadband
connectivity was opened at the school for the purpose a few weeks ago.
V.
Alexander, zonal coordinator (DE programme) of the Foundation, said
that the Corporation staff would be trained on topics such as Internet,
MS Excel and MS Word besides creating e-mail Ids, composing mails,
viewing various education websites, uploading files and downloading
attachments as they used Internet for their official communications.
Other
topics include using MS Excel and word document for their circulars.
Training would also be imparted in typing using Tamil fonts as all
official works were carried out in Tamil language.
Summer camp
The
Foundation was also organising a summer camp from the fourth week of
April to May for all the 27 Corporation School students. The students
would be trained in documentary film making and PBL (Project Based
Learning) methods.
Social issues such as disposal of
garbage, water wastage, electricity conservation, road safety and
banking would be taken up and the students would make a documentary film
by the end of the week.
In this camp, the AIF would take two batches with 40 students each.
The
first batch of students would become the Student Master Trainers (SMT)
and would receive training in handling software such as Audacity, AVC
(Any Video Converter), Photo Story: 3 for Windows, Windows Movie Maker
and Wondershare Video Editor.
The second batch of students would be given training in PBL Methodology.
DE Programme
These
initiatives were part of the ‘Digital Equaliser’ (DE) Programme – for
which the Coimbatore Corporation had inked a three-year Memorandum of
Understanding with the Foundation.
As per the MoU,
the subject content was provided in Tamil language through technology.
It covered all the 10 high schools, 16 higher secondary schools, and one
special school of the civic body, which had provided 464 computers for
the project.
The workshop will be conducted on April 6.
