Software Freedom Day Celebration at Kalpetta with MSSRF

This year SPACE organised Software Freedom Day Celebration at Kalpetta jointly with MSSRF. Highlight of this years SFD celebration was setting up of free software lab in a tribal hamlet. Two machines with free software has been now installed in Kolagappara village near Kaniyapetta. Two young girls from the locality Ms.Bindu and Ms.Sujatha were trained as volunteer to manage the centre. Mozilla WebMaker camp was organised prior to the SFD celebrations.

Onam Celebration, 2013

Onam, the harvest festival of Kerala was celebrated with great fun and frolic by the differently abled children at SPACE on the 13th  of September. The students got the opportunity to socialize with everyone by rocking one another in the swing.  The celebration was made special by the onakkaligal played by the students.

Training Programme at MRIDULA SPARSHAM, Thrippunnithura

A training programme was conducted on the 9th of September for the teachers of Mridula Sparsham, a Centre for children with special needs. Four teachers were given training on the educational activities in the free software GCompris, childsplay, Pysycache, Tux math, Tux typing and KLettres. They were also briefed about the activities that could be done online from sites such as starfall.com, jacob's lesson, softschool.com and sheppard software. Custom live CDs of SPACE were given to the centre to help them assist their students in their educational activities.

Event Date: 
Mon, 2013-09-09

NATIONAL WORKSHOP on ‘Knowledge Management and Instructional Technology

SPACE joined hands with Sree Narayana Training College,Nedunganda,Thiruvananthapuram-UGC sponsered National Workshop on ‘Knowledge Management and Instructional Technology' on 23rd and 24th August 2013. Resource Persons from SPACE took an introductory session on Freesoftware-birth, evolution and why we exist. Also introduced the participants to Learning Management system and Moodle. Then there was a hands-on session on moodle. Almost 100 participants attended the sessions.

Event Date: 
Fri, 2013-08-23

SPACE conducts Accessibility training for Master Trainers at Bhopal

SPACE conducted a Masters Training Programme on Orca in association with All People's Development and Welfare Society (APDWS), Bhopal from 9 to 13 May 2013. Three women and two men participated in the training which gave them a hands on experience in using GNU/Linux desktop, office applications and the Internet. At the next level, training will be held by these trainers with the support of APDWS and the technical support of SPACE for the visually challenged in Bhopal.
 
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