Report on first training in Sega

The first training in the village was organized in Sega Township Primary School. It was effected by two Simba Friends volunteers – Kasia Tadla and Kasia Wnuk. 20 people took part in the workshops: teachers and school’s management.

Here is a direct report:

“First we gave the participants drawings with computer parts. Their task was to name separate parts of the computer that they are familiar with. We could say that almost all trainees could point mouse and most of them could name keyboard. Few of them could name monitor and screen. After the exercise we explained names and use of all parts we shown on the drawing. Then we told the trainees how they can use computers and what possibilities they have, what kind of equipment they can use as connected to computers (printer, flash disc, CD – listening to the music, saving pictures). During the trainings we made some pictures and in the end we could present how practically use the achievements of the modern technology. We shown how to save and open pictures on the computers – everybody liked it!

The most interesting part of the meeting was a possibility of individual exercises: participants could write their names and surname using text editor. It was a real fun… Everybody was excited

We also introduced some options when working on a text like: changing of font, it’s size, color, underlining, aligning and then save it on the desktop and reopen. People were so proud of themselves! And we were proud of them!!

The training was supposed to last one hour, but because of the heavy rain it was prolonged and finished after two hours. We used this additional time to train their newly acquainted knowledge and test their strength in a first encounter with a computer!

Very interesting and motivating is also the fact that participants who already tried prompted others what they should click… Very sharp students… “