Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala is Using Finger (Mark)Print Technology First Time in Grass root Level

I am glad to offer my contribution to Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala by introducing this finger mark (finger print) technology system to keep students information to make easy for us to hold exams and certificate awarding ceremonies.  I think this kind of technology is being used in first time in Srilanka at grass root level.  We could come up with this innovative technology especially because of the contribution, the commitment and the encouragement received from the staff, students and parents of our Nisala Nenasala.  I sincerely thank them all.

This software is done by Suranga Niroshan and Nilupul Dananjaya with the help of Saroj Jayasooriya using Visual Basic.  And we have to spent more time to buy to correct finger print reader machine which goes with our software.  Finally we were able to find out correct finger print reader from one of shops in Majestic City at Bambalapitiya.  And we can use either finger print reader or bar code reader for this task.

To date, only three months have passed by introducing to this finger mark system for students who study English language in Distance Learning Education Centres where situated at village level.  Students find it very interesting activity of keeping their finger mark to finger mark machine.  Although students live in villages now they are aware of this finger print technology and they are thinking about that. We have already done several interesting services projects including two major projects.  We saw the results, enjoyed the every expect of those, and also surprised how much we could do as a team.  Overall we are beginning to realize the potential, the strength and the spiritof telecentre operators or teachers on reality.  Currently we are known as an organized group, have built up a reputation and have established a good image, trust and reliance as a quality service provider.  So that, I truest we are in the correct path to reach the good objects of Nenasala Project while strategically supporting our community in many years to come.

Once again, I am grateful for our all who provided advices, assistance, facts and opinions to produce this innovative service of excellence.  I trust our committed team will continue to render their contribution to go this extra mile, ensuring and effectively reaching the practical aspects of service excellence to need communities in our area.

Meantime, I congratulate the colleagues, officers, parents, teachers and students of Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala for their achievement so far.

                                                           
Santhusha Jayathilaka
Manager
Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

Branded Corei5 two machines were offered to Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala by ICTA

Today it’s 30^th of Wednesday is another innovative day for Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala. Because new branded Corei5 two machines were offered to Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala by the INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AGENCY OF SRILANKA(ICTA) for the sake of whole area people. ICTA is the IT hose hold name in Srilanka. The brand is Acer and branded machine.  It consist genuine windows 7 operating system. As a Nenasala operator and manager I believe that this offering will be very help full to us. Because apart from our Udubaddawa main centre there are more than 60 Distance learning education centres where situated in 25km or 30km far away from regional town. Here what I believe is we can introduce ICT technology tendency to these village area people especially for students, job seekers, teachers, state or private officers, farmers, postmen, policemen, G.S.Officers and also anyone who keen on information or data. So it’s our duty to give this knowledge to public. We have great determination to do that. Therefore Udubaddawa Nenasala is launching this new campaign like already done before this.

The Information and Communication Agency of Srilanka (ICTA) has been managed by the Government of Srilanka with the task of implementing the ICT development road map and the national policy on information technology of the government through the “e-Srilanka” initiative in order to take the dividends of ICT to every village, to every business and transform the functions of government.

 Again we emphasize the our gratitude towards ICTA Specially Mr.Reshan devapura Chief Executive Officer at ICT Agency  , senior program head communication & media Mr.Athula Pushpakumara,Programme head Information Infrastructure Ms.Dil Piyaratna,Nenasala project consultant Mr.J.K. Perera, Nenasala project manager Mr. Gavashkar Subramanium, Nenasala project officer Mr.Janka Manjula, Nenasala project officer Ms.Gayani Perea and Ms.Sewwandi Yapa. And also I would like to remind those who are behind this gigantic project.

Santhusha Jayathilaka

Manager

Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

1280 STUDENTS SIT FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT EXAMINATION UNDER THE UDUBADDAWA NISALA NENASALA

Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala is doing multi task services to entire public.  Among that there is a Distance Learning Education Centres where situated at village level.  They are far away from our main centre. some centres have been situated 30 km 40 km away from the regional town.  The main task is teaching English Language to rural students using these DLE centres.  And also we try to get the students tendency towards ICT.  Because we have lack of resources in DLE centres.  The recourses what DLE Centre available are desks benches and blackboard. A group of qualified teachers doing the teaching role to rural students visiting to these DLE centrs. Students are taught English language once a week according to the timetable.Here our academic information is mentioned below.

·         We have new grading system according to the knowledge of the students.  Because there is a vase gap among students knowledge of the English language. Our grading system as follows. Students are taught according to their position.

                                           Beginners

                               Elementary

                               Foundation

                               Intermediate

                               Advanced

·        We print and issue monthly English magazine on behalf of these students and that is the book that we use to teach English. Each and every student is given this English magazine according to his or her relevant above mentioned grade. This English magazine is given FREE OF CHARG.

·        We have examination system to examine the students’ English knowledge and offer the English Language Certificate.  Normally we hold two exams per year. 1^st one is held in mid of the year. And year end exam is held in at the end of the each year.  This blog is dedicated to 2011 year end exam. 

This is how we held our year end exam in last 27^th Saturday in four government schools.

Relevant to our DLE centres we had to select four examination centrs.  Otherwise students and parents find it difficult to come to the exam on time.  So we decided to select four government schools as examination centres.  We appointed principals of those schools as head of the exam it means chief examiner.  Exam duties done by our teachers.  We divided them for 4 teams changing their teaching students.  Exam centers are as follows.

·        Udubaddawa Dammanda School for Udubaddawa A.G.A. Division

·        St. Josph School for Kuliyapitiya east/west A.G.A. Division

·        Pannala Sinhala School for pannala A.G.A. Division

·        Hettirippuwa Primary School for A.G.A. Division

                 

AS Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala we have been able to sit 1280 students for 2011 year end exam.  This is how students’ number consists according to the each exam centre.

Exam Centre	Number of students according to the grades					Total Number centre vise
	Beginners	Elementary	Foundation	Intermediate	Advanced
Udubaddawa	158	108	119	49	34	468
Kuliyapitiya	125	988	107	46	13	389
Pannala	79	76	51	17	7	230
Dankotuwa	48	56	48	24	18	194
Total						1281

 All the students were given admission to sit the examination. That was a very difficult task.  Because we issue admissions only for the students those who sat for the mid year term test.  To get the English language achievement certificate a student must sit for the two exams.  His or her result is finalized using average marks of the taken using two exams.  Therefore we checked that thoroughly.

That student’s data base program was made by the Suranga Niroshan with the help of the Nilupul Danajaya.  Software was done by the Visual Basic.

This is the time table that we held examination last 27^th of Saturday.

Exam Centre	Students Grades
	Beginners	Elementary	Foundation	Intermediate	Advanced
Udubaddawa	10.30-12.00	8.30-10.00	12.30-2.00	2.15-4.15
Kuliyapitiya	10.30-12.00	8.30-10.00	12.30-2.00	2.15-4.15
Pannala	10.30-12.00	8.30-10.00	12.30-2.00	12.30-2.30
Dankotuwa	10.30-12.00	8.30-10.00	1.00-2.30	10.30-12.30	1.00-3.00

                                        

We have separated them to be done tasks on that day.

Examples:

·        Exam papers were sent through the selected group of three-wheelers.

·        There were officers for

I.Welcome students and parents for showing the exam hall

II.Admissions issuing teacher for those who didn’t take and misplaced

                                III.To go to outside/Arranging tea, lunch and etc.

Santhusha Jayathilaka

Manager

Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

One of Great ICT Inventors Participants to Udubaddawa

 Last 9th of October W.G.T.S. Fernando who is a Entrepreneur , New media enthusiast ,Bookworm , Author, MD at GTS , Editor diGIT mag , ex-Lecturer came to Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala and spent more than one month and stay with Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala Staff,Students and parents in Udubaddawa area.He left the Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala 16th of November 2011.Sarvodaya Fusion Manager Mr. Isura Silva is the person who direct Mr. Gihan to our Nenasala

I am writing this on behalf of all my friends and team. And we want to pay our gratitude. Being students or friends who have been learning more than one month under the guidance of Mr. Gihan I consider that it is my duty.It is not exaggeration to say that we have improved our knowledge to certain level that can be satisfied during this short period of time.Dear Gihan Ayya you taught us not only ICT but "Art of a IT Career" also. So undying memory of our gathering will haunt in our minds forever. I have no words to thank you for what you have already done for us.Genuinely one thing is the "Your Arrival to Udubaddawa" and met yourself and your studying upgraded and updated ourselves,our tasks and our Nenasala centre. I used to think that there is no another institution or team just like us.  But when exploring the world I understood that there are institutions like us available in this society.  But I want to explore the world, to gain new experiences for studying the development through sustainability.  Now we will be able to achieve the targets what we have dreamt in the past because of your genuine support.  So we have value in you Gihan Ayya.I think that if myself and my team have more guidance we will be able to do gigantic tasks so far.  

One more thing.The Kindle that you offerd to us will be very useful devise for Students who study English Language in our Distance Education Learning Centres.So again thank you very much.

May your all dreams come true and have a bright future.


I Thank Sarvodaya Fusion Manager Isura Sir also in this regard.

Santhusha Jayathilaka

Manager

Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

Nenasala propaganda vehicle is in Progress in Udubaddawa.

We udubaddawa Nenasala is launching a new Nenasala promoting program me. We nominated is as Village to Village(ගමින් ගම‍ට. Here we have decorated a three wheeler for propaganda vehicle. (As Nenasala coordinators) we hope to make aware all rural public people about Nenasala services and activities. And also already we have done a several programmers at village level and villagers highly appreciated our program me. In our hand especially students get enjoy from our program me.

Before doing this kind of programme we find it difficult to make aware the public.  Especially village area people always busy with their day today works. So we find it easy to access the village area people by this programme. And also by this task we normally go into their door steps and make aware all the services and activities done by Nenasala. We saw that most of the village area people actually have no real idea about what Nenasala is and it’s services.

There are some very funny and interesting incidents that we faced visiting here and there. Actually I want to emphases that this kind of programme is very essential to implement the Nenasala at grass root level.   

Santhusha Jayathilaka

Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

Social Media Network Conference at Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

Social Media Networking really important for people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail, blogging, instant messaging, photo sharing and gaming services.

Therefore Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala organized a "Social Media Network Conference" in Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala last October 26th Wednesday.That day was a public holiday so large number of students participated for this.We were able to find very talent resource person for this programme.He is W.G.T.Fernando  who is a former lecture in Moratuwa University, Entrepreneur ,New media enthusiast ,Bookworm , Author, MD at GTS , Editor diGIT mag .Actually he was very genuine and humble enough to do a such a presentation to rural students and also he came from Colombo.Students find it interested. Among the participants there were lots of students who present batch and former batches of Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala and also there were some private sector officers and Social Media interested persons of udubaddawa.In the presentation resource person stressed that social media is not only a interested thing but also opportunity to specially who unemployed yet.And he was able to pointed out the characters like "udaraumd(udara madusanka)","ssudaraka( Supun Sudaraka)", who have taken opportunities becase of social media. 

  

At the end we made aware all the participats about TABLET PC / KINDLE / SMART PHONES.

0    Here is the link to the presentation slides of the Embracing technology workshop

http://prezi.com/ktas1degtvf5/embracing-technology/

Santhusha Jayathilaka

Manager

Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala

How We Use Smart Phone

Last week I was able to visit our several Distance Learning Education Centers where situated in far away from regional town(our Nisala Nenasala).We teach English Language to these schooling children.When teaching English it is easy to make the students understand using smart phone.Because We have already installed some English app to our Smart Phone.This is how we use our smart phone in practically.Specially  students find it interesting. Although they have seen Mobile Phone they haven't seen that kind of Smart Phone.So I was able to make aware them about that.
Santhusha Jayathilaka
Telecentre Manager
Udubaddawa Nenasala

SARVODAYA FUSION OFFERED SMARTPHONE TO UDUBADDAWA NENASALA

Last AUGUST 18th Thursday was another innovative day for Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala. Because a Smart Phone mobile technology was offered to Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala by the SARVODAYA FUSION for the sake of whole area people. Sarvodaya is a one of the hose hold names in Srilanka. The model is Smart and its brand is Google nexus one. As a Nenasala (Telecentre) operator and manager I believe that this offering will be our next step. Because apart from our Udubaddawa main centre there are more than 60 Distance learning education centers where situated in 25km or 30km far away from regional town. Here what I believe is we can practically introduce this smart phone technology to these village area people especially for students, job seekers, teachers, state or private officers, farmers, postmen, policemen, G.S.Officers and also anyone who keen on information or data. This smart phone will help not only for ICT literacy but English language, Science, general knowledge and etc. So it’s our duty to give this knowledge to public. We have great determination to do that. Therefore Udubaddawa Nenasala is launching this new campaign like already done before this. Again we emphasize the our gratitude towards SARWODAYA FUSION Specially Dr Harsha, Isura Sir and Mr Udara Darmasena who is coordinator for mobile4D. And also I would like to remind Miss Maithree , Mr madushan and Mr Danesh in this regard.
Santhusha Jayathilaka
Telecentre Manager
Udubaddawa Nisala Nenasala