Annual report of Sungard Schools

Contents

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................3

BENEFICIARIES DETAILS:- ..............................................................................................................4

FACILITIES PROVIDED:- ...................................................................................................................4

NUMBER OF VISITS BY AIFT:- ..........................................................................................................4

DETAILS OF SOFTWARE AND LEARNING TOOLS:- ..........................................................................5

BEGINNING OF THE YEAR:- .............................................................................................................6

HM’S MEETING:- ...............................................................................................................................7

DETAILS OF THE MEETING ..............................................................................................................8

CHALLENGES FACED:- ....................................................................................................................8

COORDINATORS VISIT AND MONITORING:- ......................................................................................9

TEACHERS PARTICIPATION:- ..........................................................................................................9

STUDENTS PARTICIPATION:- ......................................................................................................... 10

LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE TEACHERS:- ................................................................................. 10

LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE STUDENTS:- .................................................................................. 10

BALAMELA:- .................................................................................................................................. 12

PROCESS OF BALAMELA:- ............................................................................................................ 12

OUTCOME OF THE BALAMELA PROGRAM: - ................................................................................. 13

DE CONTEST ................................................................................................................................... 14

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 15

INNOVATIVE WORK ........................................................................................................................ 15

PICTURE RESOURCE ...................................................................................................................... 16

SUBJECT ORIENTED VIDEO RESOURCE ......................................................................................... 16

DE PROJECTS ................................................................................................................................ 17

MORAL STORIES ............................................................................................................................ 17

NALIKALI PROJECTS ..................................................................................................................... 18

DE PERIOD ...................................................................................................................................... 19

REPORT IN NEWSPAPER:- .............................................................................................................. 20

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS VISIT TO KUDLU SCHOOL ..................................................................... 20

2ND TIME BALAMELA ORGANIZED IN CHANNASANDRA SCHOOL .............................................. 20

LEADERSHIP VISIT ........................................................................................................................ 21

COMPUTER EXAM .......................................................................................................................... 22

TABLE OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................. 23

CASE STUDIES ............................................................................................................................... 24

STUDENT CASE STUDY:- ......................................................................................................................... 24

TEACHER CASE STUDY:- ......................................................................................................................... 24

Annual report of Sungard Schools

Introduction

This is the great opportunity for AIFT to congratulate the SUNGARD for

supporting 2 Government Higher Primary Schools in Bangalore, One is Kudlu and

another one is Channasandra. This is actually the annual report and this is the

approach articulated by the school students and teachers. Geographically these

schools are situated in Bangalore Urban District with the good infrastructure.

Beneficiaries Details:-

Facilities provided:-

For these 2 schools SUNGARD has given 10 N-computing systems, UPS (10

(650VA) for Channasandra School and 1 (3 KV) for Kudlu School), 1 printer, 2

speakers, high speed internet and 1 school coordinator for each school to

implement the Digital Equalizer Program successfully.

Number of visits by aift:-

SL.NO DESIGNATION

NAME OF

THE

SCHOOL

NUMBER

OF VISIT PURPOSE

1 State Program

Manager

Channasandra 04 To review the

program Kudlu 03

2 Regional

Coordinator

Channasandra 04 To review the

program and install

the N Computing

software

Kudlu 01

NAME OF THE

SCHOOL

NUMBER OF

TEACHERS NUMBER OF THE STUDENTS

Kudlu 14

6TH

7TH

8TH

BOY GIRL BOY GIRL BOY GIRL

40 31 26 42 30 28

TOTAL 71 68 139

Channasandra 11 28 36 33 34 16 17

TOTAL 64 67 34

3 District

Coordinator

Channasandra 08 To review the

program Kudlu 06

Details of Software and Learning Tools:-

Windows 2007

MS Office 2010

Beginning of the year:-

In the beginning FSC District Coordinator has conducted the meeting in presence

of Mr. Lalith Prasad (SPM, AIF) to understand what activities should be

implemented in SUNGARD Schools. According to the discussion District

coordinator drafted the plan and explained how to execute in the school.

The actual plan is as follows;

HM’S MEETING:-

This HMs meeting was organized by AIFT to know the present status of

SUNGARD schools, so to conduct the meeting officially the following circular

was drafted by Bangalore Urban DIET ET Head.

Details of the meeting

1. Mr. Rama Mogera – Urban DIET ET Head

2. Mrs. Suma – Senior Urban DIET Lecturer (ET Wing)

The senior DIET lecturer requested everybody to introduce themselves and

assisted FSC District Coordinator to start the meeting. Everybody introduced

very warmly, and then the District Coordinator read the agenda and gave the

platform to the Head teachers.

In the beginning the Head Teachers shared their wonderful experience about

AIFT training and support. After some time everybody walked little deeper into

the following discussion.

Previous year report.

Previous year highlights.

Present status of the computer lab and training.

Hardware status.

Internet status.

CC Schedule.

2 days’ workshop for teachers on technology.

Time table for teachers and students to attend Computer training

Challenges Faced:-

In the month of July all the Computers were not working due to some virus

and network problem.

Solution:-

To address this problem AIFT (Sudhakar, Regional Coordinator) took

special care and reinstalled the windows software as well as antivirus.

Coordinators visit and Monitoring:-

These two schools have School coordinators, so they work for whole day

in their respective schools for training the teachers and students.

They trained the teachers on both – technology and its uses in the past

several months.

They helped the teachers in making projects on their subject which are

later used to teach the students.

They helped the teachers to learn the MS office tools effectively to make

the best use on their subject and also for the administrative work.

Every teacher takes two DE periods per week. DE period is a subject

transaction handled by a teacher in the DE lab.

Teachers Participation:-

The entire teachers are participating

very enthusiastically according to their

respective period. They are very happy

to work with computers.

Teachers learned many technical skills

i.e. MS Office tools, Internet, etc.

The training for the teachers is not

restricted only to technology-based

training but also covers the pedagogic

aspects which give the teachers creative

tips and new methods to handle their

subjects. This type of training the

teachers found very useful.

The pedagogic aspects are:-

1. Creative Thinking

2. Critical Thinking

3. Collaborative Learning

4. Multiple Intelligence

5. Project Based Learning

Students Participation:-

Students will be waiting always for the computer period to do

something interesting and innovative. They will wait for the right

instruction from the coordinator and then they will proceed. In these schools

students are using the internet very sufficiently. As a result, they have done

many projects regarding their subject with the help of computer applications

like, MS Paint, MS Word and MS Power point.

For this year Independence Day these two school students created

some greetings in the computer using the above applications to wish there

classmates and teachers differently.

Learning outcomes of the teachers:-

Teachers learned how to

integrate technology for their

subject curriculum. They

prepared projects on Power point

presentation with the help of the

school coordinator.

Teachers learned how to make

best use of internet in terms of

downloading the pictures and

videos. Moreover they improved

their student’s interest in

learning concepts by conducting the DE Period in computer lab.

Learning outcomes of the students:-

Students learned most of the skills in computers and prepared many projects

with the help of their teachers.

Students have collected the maximum number of subject oriented pictures

from the internet and typed the poems and lesson in the computer itself.

Students are not only searching the information, they are very eagerly reads

the news and visit the educational websites.

SAMPLE OF STUDENTS CREATIVE WORK DONE IN THE MS

WORD

Balamela:-

This is the event what all the school students and teachers love to do in their

school campus. To organize this kind of Mela AIFT will give an idea to

exhibit the student’s talents in their own style. To demonstrate their talents,

students will utilize the computers in a very innovative way. “Balamela

means Academic Fair organized by the students and for the students”.

In this particular Mela students will prepare many creative models using the

cardboard sheets and the materials which are available around them. AIFT

will support the students whenever necessary but teachers will guide the

students on how to explain the concept to others. The following word

contains the complete report of Balamela.

Process of Balamela:-

STAFF MEETING:-

FSC District Coordinator conducted the staff meeting in these schools and made

the teachers and students to understand the following points.

1. What is Balamela?

2. How does it look?

3. How to select the students?

4. How to give chance for students to select the activities?

5. What are the materials needed?

6. How to prepare the budget?

7. How to prepare the students?

8. How to inaugurate the Balamela Program?

9. Who will be the guest and participants?

After the meeting, the teachers and students decided the date and time to conduct

the Balamela in their school campus.

During this Balamela Program Mr. Chetan Garga visited Channasandra

School and Mrs. Lopamudra visited Koodlu School from SUNGARD. Apart from

them SDMC Members and parents were also presented in these schools to observe

the creative work done by their children. They were so happy because their

children explained the concepts in their own words to their classmates and also to

them. But the teachers said that, most of the learning happened in this particular

event and we are not able to imagine that, the students have prepared the activities

by their own and participated very enthusiastically. So we are very thankful to

AIFT and we do more than this for the next academic year.

Outcome of the Balamela Program: -

The immediate outcome of this BALAMELA program was;

Students learnt many technology skills.

Students learnt concepts which are more related to their curriculum.

All kind of intelligent students got the equal opportunity to participate and

also to demonstrate their talent.

Students got great opportunity to teach their classmates.

This was the amazing chance for students to gather information from their

friends, parents, text book, teachers and internet etc.,

Non DE School students were actively participated in this event and learnt

the skills.

DE Contest

This year the DE Contest topic was announced in the 1st week of November

2011. The topic and the main branches to focus were already given by AIFT

itself. So here is the topic.

In these schools the students and teachers were so interested to participate in the

contest but unfortunately the teachers had residential training and census work, so

it took quite long time for students to finish the project with the proper guidance of

their teachers. But they have used lot of videos and live pictures to give the life for

the topic. Moreover Kudlu School won the second prize in the contest.

Special Report of Sungard School

Introduction

FSC is meant for implementation of innovative activities to make the

teachers to integrate the technology in their teaching process where as for

students to learn the concepts differently. So keeping all this in mind FSC

team coordinators tried few innovative activities to achieve the objectives.

Innovative work

o Content with picture

This year all the students enjoyed preparing this content with pictures in

computers with the help of internet. Most of the learning happened in this

particular activity. This was the first activity started in this year.

Picture Resource

Picture Resource means collection of pictures related to one particular lesson

gathered by teachers with the help of internet. This is actually helped the

teachers a lot while conducting their class in the computer lab. This is the

second innovative work tried in these schools to increase the teacher’s

interest in integration of technology.

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Subject oriented video resource

Apart from the picture resource the school coordinators helped the teachers

and students to collect the videos from internet. This also helped the teachers

to convey their class very creatively as well as informatively.

DE Projects

Along with the innovative activities, these school students learnt how to

produce DE Projects with the proper guidance of their respective teachers.

These projects helped the students to recall the contents that are gathered

while preparing and consolidating the projects.

Moral Stories

When the students learnt how to access computer and internet, they have

prepared few moral stories in English. This helped the students to learn the

usage of internet and made them to understand the story in English.

Nalikali Projects

While conducting the teachers training in the school all the teachers used to

do the projects related to their subject. But 1 to 3rd

STD teachers will not get

much time to attend the computer training as well as to produce the projects.

Somehow they are impressed by the projects done by other teachers and they

also tempted to do the same. The small students helped their teachers to

produce the following projects. The picture which is inserted here is not

taken from internet but it is captured by Digital Camera.

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DE Period

As a result of all the above innovative work done by the teachers and

students, the DE period increased a lot than the last year. Most of the time

teachers spent their valuable time in the computer lab itself to collect the

data and also to transact their subject one or the other way.

Report in newspaper:-

The Balamela program which was

conducted in Kudlu Government

Higher Primary School was very

impressive and published in

newspaper like, “Kudlu Government

Higher Primary School organized

Balamela Program for students with

the guidance of American India

Foundation Trust and for this

program Mr. Lalith Prasad from

AIFT and Mrs. Lopa from

SUNGARD was presented”.

Government officials visit to Kudlu School

In the month of December 3 Government officials visited Kudlu School for

inspection. They have also entered in the computer lab and surprised by watching

student’s projects and lesson plan done the teachers. After their observation they

have written very long report by appreciating the AIFT organization.

2nd time balamela organized in Channasandra School

As usual the

Government Higher

Primary School

Channasandra also

organized the

Balamela with more

innovative activities.

For this Mela Mrs. Shyamala (Cluster Resource Person, Education Department)

was presented. She observed the activities very carefully and listed few activities

which can explain to others. End of the day she came to office and appreciated

AIFT and the school staff. But after a week she requested Mr. Nagaraj (Head

Teacher) to conduct the same Balamela in the school campus. He agreed and

organized the Mela once again. It was really shock for everybody because Mrs.

Shyamala brought 42 teachers from other Government and Aided Schools. It was a

good program for them to observe the creative activities done by the students.

While leaving the school they said, they surely conduct this program in their

respective schools.

Leadership visit

This leadership visit was planned by AIFT to make our AIFT Heads to understand

and also to showcase what’s happening in FSC schools. For this program the

agenda was prepared like the following;

The plan what we mentioned above was really went very beautifully and the

students were so happy in welcoming the guests and enjoyed their movement by

explaining their projects and other things in the computer lab.

Computer Exam

This year these 2 schools conducted the computer exam along with other

subjects. AIFT have provided the Hall Ticket as follows. The students

enjoyed attending this computer exam because it was more fun with

computers.

Table of innovative activities

SL.

NO

Innovative ACTIVITIES

Computer

APPLICATIONS

expected

Achieved

ACTIVITIES numbers

1 MS Word

Lesson and

poem with

pictures

60 125

Lesson Plan 16 15

2 MS Excel Marks List 30 29

Time Table 6 6

4 MS Power Point

Subject

oriented

Projects

50 110

Nalikali

Projects

This project

were not

expected but

the students

and teachers

taken the

initiative

38

6 Internet

Subject

oriented

pictures

12 28

Subject

oriented videos 60 170

Case studies

Student Case Study:-

Computer can attract anybody at any time and

computer is not specially made for a particular

person, it is for everybody. You may think why

these words are coming here? So here is the

evident for that:-

This is the special case study about the student

called Shobhitha. She is studying 8th

STD in

Chennasandra Govt Higher Primary School.

She is not bright in studies, means even she is not able to identify the letters

quickly, because she forgets soon. Her class teacher is always worried about her

studies. Shobhitha love computer a lot and because of that she never get bored to

attend the school. She learnt MS Paint and how to search for pictures in the

internet in the past year. According to the School coordinators annual plan Ms.

Venkatalakshmi started to teach Kannda typing. In the beginning she took time to

learn typing, later she picked up well and now she can type very fast than other

students. As a result not only her typing speed improved but now she can recognize

all the alphabets and words quickly. Her class teacher said this is the great change

happened in her student learning style.

Teacher Case Study:-

My name is Aruna RS I am working as an assistant

teacher in Kudlu Govt Higher Primary School. I take

science subject for all grade students. In the year

2010 AIFT provided 10 computers to our school with

support of SUNGARD. For 2 months I did not get

time to visit the computer lab and I did not know

what facilities are provided. One day Mr. Manjunath

(School Coordinator, AIFT) assist me to draw some

pictures in the computer. For the first the time I did

not do well but Mr. Manjunath appreciated my

attempt. I started visiting regularly and learnt some of the applications like, MS

Paint, MS Word; Kannada typing etc., all my

colleagues was doing the projects on their

subject, so I also selected one of the science

topics from 7th

STD text book and prepared the

project for whole lesson. After this Mr.

Manjunath taught how to collect pictures from

internet. According to his instruction I was

searching for the pictures, immediately I saw the

videos also in that particular web page. I approached Manjunath to download all

videos and applied in my project. One fine day I made 7th

STD students to sit in the

computer lab and displayed the project. It was almost 33 slides with related

pictures and videos. Actually I took this particular class for 3 periods continuously

and all the students were so attentively observed and enjoyed that particular lesson.

I asked few questions on the spot, I was shocked because they were able to recall

and reply the concepts very clearly. I was amazed! According to my program of

work I have to finish this lesson within 10 days but I did it in a 3 periods without

skipping any single point. Now I understood how best we can utilize the computer

in our subject.