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Saturday, August 03, 2013

Android Village Hubs Pilot Project was Initiated at Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

              Sarvodaya fusion and Etisatal Company of Srilanka with the objective of empowering village level students (grassroots) commenced very innovative education task recently in Kurenegala district of Udubaddawa A.G.A. divisional secretariat.  This is pilot project of Srilanka and Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala was selected as the education centre which this task is to be initiated.

         Udubaddaw Nisala Nenasala is one of telecentres(Nenasala wisdom outlets)  under the 1000 Nenasala centre network of Srilanka.  This project was initiated by presidential secretarial office and information communication agency of Srilanka under the guidance and leadership of His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksha, the president of democratic socialist republic of Srilanka.

          Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala has been serving to entire public such as students, civilians, and private and state sector officers, incumbents of the area and businessmen of north western province.  Our main service is empowering them in information and communication technology and English language literacy.  We have been able to focus our main servicing to achieve above goal which relevant to government main target.

             Generally Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala has established 53 distance education learning centers at village level in G.S. divisions of Kurunegala and Puttlum districts.  English language is taught in this kind of centers by teachers of Udubaddawa Nenasala and they have been used to go to the DEL centres once a week with printed monthly English magazine publish by Udubaddawa Nenasala under the approval of National Centre National Library and Documentation Services Board OF Srilanka through ISSN numbers.  This is the previous academic incidents, story and background of us in the past.

        Under the patronage of Sarvodaya fusion and Etisalat Company of Srilanka Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala has been able to initiate and introduce innovative English teaching process to our students.  Above mentioned main facilitators of this project Sarvodaya fusion one of the leading and more than 50years old NGO in Srilanka and one of the leading telecommunication company in worldwide Etisalat Company offered Five android Huwavi tablet computers to us.  Android technology is the rapid and latest technology for day today using at the present and there are many free APPS relevant to English language learning and teaching process.  So we thoroughly think that this innovative initiative will be the first step of one of great , revolutionary teaching process of Srilanka in grass root level.

       Mr. Udara Dharmasena who is the coordinator for mobile 4D of Sarvodaya fusion was the main resource person for training android tablets to our Nenasala English teachers and Kalpanee Gunawardhana was the volunteer resource person for training our teachers the way of using to the APPS in Google market relevant to our English curriculum. “BUSSU” is the app we are to use to teach English for our students relevant to the English teaching curriculum at class wise. Already several training sessions were held in our centre situated in Sri Indrarama temple at Udubaddawa.

        The inauguration and introducing ceremony also held in last 11th Thursday of July 2013 at the same place in Udubaddawa.



        So this is the beginning of one of stories to be innovative and revolutionary in the education field of Srilanka. Then we take this chance to thank especially for the Mr. Isura Silva manager of Sarvodaya Fusion, Mr.Udara Dharmasena, Ms. Kalpanee Gunawardhana, Executive officers of Etisalat Company who involve with this project introducing this kind of programme and keeping trust on ourselves and Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala.  We make every possible effort to success this project and its objectives keeping our more attention.  Especially Mr. Nilupul Danhanjaya exective of Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala has already got the main responsibility and coordination part with the teachers and he has planned to set up a help desk for teachers and the students and get the parents feedback of this regard.

Santhusha Jayathilaka
Manager
Uduabbadawa Nisala Nenasala

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