Re: (dsh-nepal) progress?

[kush Shrestha]

Dear Randy,

We are having tests this week in the school and also teachers are preparing for the Parent
Teacher Meeting this coming Saturday. There's a Teachers Traning next week in our school
for the Grade teachers by Ms. Christing Stone. She's the Master Teacher Trainer. We've 
invited goverment school teachers to participate in the training too. So our school
teachers re busy these days till the end of next week. Also, we are looking for good
teachers from other schools.

There's a STRC meeting next week. Ms. Rani & Dr. K.N. is planning on the curriculum and the
shooting schedule. We have lots of activities going on the school. However, we are
preparing for the shooting for next week if not the week after that. I'll install the new
disks as soon as possible.

Kush

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Randolph Wang <ryw...@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:

Any new progress since I left?

I see no new video in the database.

Is there a filming schedule in place?

Kush, what about installing new disks and getting Skype to work?

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[wangchho sherpa]

Dear Sir and madam

Namaste,I am  friend of Randy wang.i woould like to join for the test of  dsh.Can i join on Saturday in your programe?Hope to hear from you soon.wangchho sherpa

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From: kush Shrestha <kushsh...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, July 29, 2010 3:26:40 PM
Subject: Re: (dsh-nepal) progress?

[Randolph Wang]

Sounds good.  Thanks for the update.

(1)

If you feel like it, note that Ms. Christine Stone's sessions can be recorded too, if you guys want to.

In this particular case, instead of you pointing the camera very carefully all the time, it's perfectly ok to zoom back a little and just leave the camera on the tripod by itself without you panning and zooming all the time.  This would be acceptable because unlike the regular lessons we shoot, this would be used by teachers only, not kids, so it's ok to have a bigger panoramic view.  The microphone would still be necessary though, otherwise the sound will not be acceptable.  A wireless microphone will be better in this situation though.

This would be particularly valuable if she can do the session in Nepali.  If it's done in English, the value is probably less because few village teachers would be able understand it.

(2)

Please let me know when the new regular lesson recordings resume and a schedule is in place.

It's really important to have a regular schedule in place.  In my past experience, it's super-easy for people to come up with all kinds of excuses: we're busy this week on this, we're busy next week on that, and the fact of matter is that we can always find something we're busy on any week, any day, any hour.  If we don't make a plan and take it seriously, the project dies.

[Randolph Wang]

Hi Wangchho, I'm sure the folks at the school would be glad to have you.  You might also want to discuss with Kush: as I was saying, if everyone agrees that Christine's training sessions can be useful for village teachers as well, you might want to consider filming that.  So even if you're not there physically, you and your teachers can view the recordings later.