9 years had worked on many computers and worked with many programming languages. When I came out of a prestigious company to enter the jungles of Africa, who wanted to help the people who knew nothing of teams learn about them. At the time it opened a centre of training of the team in my garage. I was using desktop 8086 which were donated old machines for the task.
For starters, it had only four people interested in learning about computers. They had both teams fears that they don't want to touch them. These "students" what they knew about the equipment. However, fears they had to break and knew that a team cost more money never seen in years. To overcome this fear quickly opened a day team and began taking cards and pieces were found on the computer. Then they gave each piece that brought the person closest to me and told him to pass.
Each piece was that I would like to explain what was the part and what it was used for. Students did not know exactly what was being show for them. Nor do I understand how it worked. They were simply amazed that he could keep it, touch it and look at it in all its parts.
In the coming months each student began to understand and learn about a team. After about 3 months, each was able to disarm a team and together so it worked properly. Then the people began to come and see what we were doing. More and more people wanted to learn.
From this experience, I began to see some things about basic Informatics in this nation of the third world.
(1) Many people were influenced by the West. It is good or bad that they wanted to all Western. The teams were no exception.
(2) Of the country as a whole it has many educational programs to teach teams. There was a great need for the training centre.
(3) There was this desire to learn about the equipment because of the need of the people. They need a way to survive.
(4) There was so many jobs to the people who understand of Microsoft products and how to fix a team which is what I focused on. People who completed courses were able to find work almost immediately.
(5) The people of the country had said by officials that the country's future was in the use of equipment. By what everyone was looking for a quick and cheap way to learn from the teams. Within a year of my arrival in the country there was a center of training of the team in every corner. Many are not necessary knowledge from the majority of the centres where he began by people with little or no knowledge of teaching. But the local people didn't know this. Had nothing to measure by.
Some of the challenges we face in developing the formation of a third world nation are:
There is no consistent food
Many times there was no power. It is difficult to teach computers without power. However, we did many debates of chalk board. What would the students visualize and practice that when they were close to a team.
Too many people and not enough teams
My largest class was about 30 people for 10 teams in a small room. We did a lot of work of buddy type. A person would be to use the computer, while teammate would be behind them and see. When we touch type training have all give a keyboard without the team (we donated over 100 keyboards). One buddy wrote while the other would be if they did it correctly as the Ensign spoke the letter or number you type.
There is no such thing as broadband
We began to offer internet training at any given time. As the world advanced band broadband and began developing Web sites with media content graphics and main in the third world was left in the dust of progress. Most Web sites have a difficult time opening for a number of reasons. Sites such as Facebook and YouTube are a joke to internet users in a third world nation. The best internet connection for those who can afford it is around 64 kbps or less. Even the operating systems such as Xp or Vista it became internet more central. Your operating system became obsolete very quickly. Many Nations are trying to get caught up, but it will take time and money, lots of money.
After several years I ended up with 2 computer training centres. They were finally all ran by the locals who had spent all the courses offered. I didn't have to teach that they taught. Teachers taught in their local language along with English. This was fun to see that described a CPU to students. It has worked well. However, many things on a computer or use do not translate well into local languages.
Today the centres are not working. My work obligations I have called elsewhere.
We had over 300 people complete the courses.
Has it been a success? Absolutely. Payment still roll in previous students say thanks for teaching teams because they have a good job. Some have even said that they knew the subject so well that he had even taught to people in their places of work.
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