Reisavontuur: Preparations for Tanzania
 aribu!
Welcome to my blog about my trip
to Tanzania!
From 9/10/10 to 30/10/10 I’ll be volunteering for
Viafrica in Moshi, Tanzania.
Here’s a map from tanzania:Moshi is in the north of Tanzania, quite close to the kilimanjaro: Here’s a picture from the Viafrica office in Moshi where I’ll be most of the time. With mighty Kilimanjaro in the background: My main goal is to educate, advice and help our employees with respect to technical computer issues. The general idea is I’ll be teaching in the morning (except for the first week) and help, advice and educate with all kinds of issues, challenges the rest of the day. Possibly I’ll visit one or more schools to see how our CLASSworks program is implemented. And one weekend, enjoy a safari! :) Here I’ll give a rough planning for my trainings. The first week is quite settled now. Once I’ll be there I can make better judgements of the two other weeks. Possible area’s in which I will teach are: (but this can change dus to local developments and demands): basic Linux Duration: approx. 24 hours including an exam. Goal: This training will focus on the “core Linux operating system”, ubuntu is used as our Linux platform. This course is given the first three days. This way, Kennedy (from Viafrica Kenia) can also join. The thursday (14 October) is a national holiday (Nyerere Day, in honour of the first president of the United Republic of Tanzania). Friday I’ll work out the install of the CWA-server with Rechi. No “tricks” with a graphical interface are learned but a common knowledge is teached for working with the command line. In the end all graphical actions end up in doing nothing more then issuing “(command line) commands”. This way we achieve that: the student knows its work around on whatever linux system. the configuration and usage of graphical tools is better understood. once the core is understood a “Linux system” in general will have less secrets. people are less afraid to work with the Linux OS. Subjects: basic commands basic filtering (combining commands) basic filesystem layout editing with vi basic services (daemons) That’s a lot of basic stuff! ;) Let’s continue: school/office automation with a Linux server Duration one week (20 hours including an exam). This course is given in the second week of my stay. Goal: make students more autonomic when offering customers a solution. Subjects: basic networking concepts (what is an IP-address?, what is a gateway?, what is dhcp?, what is a router?). basic (server) install and maintenance, including setting up the classroom-server basic trouble shooting discussion of various customer situations/wishes. translate divers customers wishes to a workable IT environment. backups, different strategies in backing up data. installing a “Clear-OS” server. For the die-hards: compare the graphical settings with the real processes running on the system (and shown from the command line). computer hardware Duration: 3 hours, no exam. This course is given in the third week of my visit. Goal: better understanding of differences in computer hardware available. Subjects: Difference in various types of processors, disks, memory. New developments. As said, next to teaching I’ll keep myself busy interfering with all kinds of issues, trying to improve things by listening, giving advicei, helping out etc… One of the things I already know which has to be done: completing the procedure of setting up a local CLASSworks-server (the elearning environment). Also, help in working out ideas about a KIDSworks platform for primary schools will be on the agenda. Margot Dijker will join me after a week for two weeks. She will be busy teaching, advising people how to work in a non-technical way. The 30-th I’ll fly from Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar to join the possible chaos of the elections and enjoy other things including of course the climate :) The 6-th of November I take a ferry to Dar Es Salaam to spend a day in this city from where I’ll fly back to Holland in the night from Saterday to Sunday. Until my departure I’ll be busy making my preparations. My todo list for now is: collecting and preparing my course material, this will be the biggest chunk of my preparation. I can use al lot from tldp.org. I got my injections and anti-malaria pills. I get my visa for Tanzania at the border when you enter the country. clean my house because my parents will stay here for a while :) This Saterday I’ll be picked up at Kilimanjaro airport by Thomas, director of Viafrica in Tanzania, looking forward to it! Keep an eye on this blog and you won’t miss out on anything! :) | ||||||||||||
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