We talked to the teacher at the boys’ high school last night, and he confirmed that they bought one voltage stabilizer for their computers. We think that this can serve 5-6 computers at one time, but he’s going to do some testing and find out for sure.
Board exams started at the school at the beginning [...]

This is a mostly comprehensive summary of what we did in Bijawar this December.
Computer maintenance
We talked to the people at two computer shops in Chhatarpur – Microworld Computers, whom we were referred to by an acquaintance who runs a cyber cafe, and Computer Care & Ware. We stopped by Microworld Computers, but there was no [...]

I’ve been in Bijawar since Thursday, so here’s what’s been going on since the last time I wrote.
I finally got Wipro to fix the broken CPU with a new hard drive (they’d previously replaced the monitor), which we still have to test to make sure it actually works. I’m not sure whether it’s got Windows [...]

Sorry that it’s been so long since the last blog post! There’s still an analysis in the works, but here’s a (very long) update on what’s been going on since August.
To our never-ending surprise, the computer education program at the Boys’ HS School in Bijawar is going pretty well. As the students from the first [...]

Here are some photos of cute children to tide you over until my next post goes up. How these kids are all related to me is too complicated to go into, so suffice it to say that they are.

(Note. Sorry about all the recent downtime. It’s been resolved – thanks for your patience!)
Today is my last day in Bijawar! It’s a little strange how well I’ve adapted to the vagaries of living here and how quickly the time has gone. I really wouldn’t mind a little Thai or sushi or frozen yogurt right [...]

It’s been a week since I last updated this blog; sorry for the delay!
We did a little bit more Word with the first batch of kids, then we skipped straight to Excel. I figure that the teacher can handle Word and more basic Windows stuff on his own, but he’s a little weak on Excel, [...]

I haven’t updated in a few days – not much has been going on, actually. We’ve been working with the first batch of kids on Word formatting, and we’ve been going over more Windows fundamentals with the second. This second batch still seems kind of lost and overwhelmed, but hopefully if we go slowly enough, [...]

This morning, one of the other teachers had the key to the computer lab, which we didn’t know, and we weren’t able to get it until almost 10am. This threw our entire schedule off. We ended up having the first set of kids practice some typing for 15 minutes, then we went over a couple [...]

Today the kids spent about 15 minutes typing, then we went over some storage vocab – CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, flash memory, hard disk, etc. We then reviewed some of the vocab from the past few days.
We also began teaching a second shift of kids from 10-11am, this time ones who haven’t had the chance to [...]