Project name: Pengenalan dan
Pemberdayaan IT dan Multimedia
Topic: Daily computer software (mainly Office + Photoshop) and internet usage
Location: Lydia Orphanage in Gayungsari road
Period: October - November 2011
Description:
The Lydia Orphanage is founded on 1983 and is now taking care of 22 children and teens with education level ranging from Kindergarten to University. The administrator of the orphanage was willing to teach the inhabitants, especially teens, about daily IT, that is computer and internet usage. However, they lack the necessary knowledge, workforce and resources for it. Without proper techniques in using the computer, they're subject of being left behind further in the wake of technology advances, unable to harness its usefulness and vulnerable to the dangers of it.
These problems are solvable through our SL, in which the needed education will be taught according to their current formal education necessity. Internet usage are also taught as a basis of self-learning the further use of computer in the future.
Goals:
Period: October - November 2011
Description:
The Lydia Orphanage is founded on 1983 and is now taking care of 22 children and teens with education level ranging from Kindergarten to University. The administrator of the orphanage was willing to teach the inhabitants, especially teens, about daily IT, that is computer and internet usage. However, they lack the necessary knowledge, workforce and resources for it. Without proper techniques in using the computer, they're subject of being left behind further in the wake of technology advances, unable to harness its usefulness and vulnerable to the dangers of it.
These problems are solvable through our SL, in which the needed education will be taught according to their current formal education necessity. Internet usage are also taught as a basis of self-learning the further use of computer in the future.
Goals:
- To increase the orphanage occupants' interest of IT
- To solve the community problem by raising the skills of using the computer and internet
- Teach the usage of certain computer programs such as Office 2007, Photoshop CS3 and AVG 2011
- Explain about open source programs and freewares
- Introduce the daily internet usage and exploiting it for study purposes
- Ready the community for group discussion which will be held regularly as a self-studying activity
