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September 30, 2008



AndriusKulikauskas: Labas! Hello from Chicago

LT: Alvydas: DJL;JWW

AndriusKulikauskas: Labas Alvydai

DadamacLearnersFantsuam: hi, :: we are dadamac learners fantsauam :: i am yakubu :: i am one of dadamac learners fantsuam :: i am fola one of dadamac learners at fantsuam :: welcome

Dadamac: thanks :: am doris from fantsaum self directed learners

DadamacLearnersFantsuam: jibrin perry monday perry i am one of the dadamac learners at fantsuam

Dadamac: Hello my name is hezy from Dadamac learning group. :: mercy giwa,am one of the dadamac learners at fantsuam.

DadamacLearnersFantsuam: I am priscilla one of the dadamac learners , as self directed learners at fantsuam.

Dadamac: thanks doris is leaving the chat room for now.

DadamacLearners: iam back

Perry: a dadamac learner

Dadamac: Hello, this is Hezekiah:I have got somthing about the E F G NEXUS.

Priscilla: /room English :: /room English :: dadamac learner 4

Dadamac: i want u meet friends to chat with on urban and regional planning

Simon: Hi fellow Dadamac learner

SteveT: Just testing

AndriusKulikauskas: Steve, Hi from Chicago

Victor: hi :: what is the agenda

AndriusKulikauskas: Hi Victor, Pamela leads a chat here on Thursday.

FredKayiwa: Hi Andrius

AndriusKulikauskas: Hi Fred, how are you? :: Are you ready to help the St.Benedict the African church?

FredKayiwa: Am having seroius Flu

AndriusKulikauskas: My plan is that you would be here two hours every Saturday

FredKayiwa: Long Time Andrius :: am so happy to see u

AndriusKulikauskas: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon Chicago time

FredKayiwa: thats what in out time?

AndriusKulikauskas: which is 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Nairobi time :: are you Nairobi time?

FredKayiwa: yes :: am more than ready i can be here for more than 2 hours if possible

AndriusKulikauskas: can we start on Saturday October 11 :: ?

FredKayiwa: yes

AndriusKulikauskas: ok I will tell them :: and we will have chat every Saturday ok? until the end of the year :: and I will send you 100 USD from them

FredKayiwa: so waht do they exactly expect me to do?

AndriusKulikauskas: you will lead our help center

FredKayiwa: perfcet

AndriusKulikauskas: so if their children need help learning math or English they can ask you questions :: or if they need help to buy airline tickets you can help them :: or do research or shop

FredKayiwa: perfect

AndriusKulikauskas: I will try to be there also so we can work together

FredKayiwa: thanks for that Job

AndriusKulikauskas: yes! :: yes and if we do well then maybe we can have more jobs like this :: How are you getting online?

FredKayiwa: right now am using GPRS mordem

AndriusKulikauskas: how much does that cost?

FredKayiwa: up to end of October

AndriusKulikauskas: also please join us at http://worknets.ning.com

FredKayiwa: i have bought it alredy but i need to pay for every month :: so i paid up to October :: and after if i get some$ i can pay more :: right now ineed to lookf for my tution

AndriusKulikauskas: how much does it cost per month?

FredKayiwa: oh i pay 56$

AndriusKulikauskas: ok

FredKayiwa: i see by the next year it will be decreased :: lot of competition among Internet providers :: /msg Victor hi

AndriusKulikauskas: good :: I'm speaking with Maria Agnese Giraudo on Skype

FredKayiwa: let me wait for u :: i need your help

AndriusKulikauskas: yes?

FredKayiwa: i was asked to make a website for our club :: but am find challanges to make it more understadle and i know you can do it better

AndriusKulikauskas: yes :: yes we can work on that on Saturdays

FredKayiwa: ok :: then after church iwill be here

AndriusKulikauskas: also you can write to the groups maybe somebody can help :: ok

FredKayiwa: Andrius the site deals with Admin it should be not so :: my classes are evening classess from monday to thuusday and suday is day so i have time to be here

AndriusKulikauskas: good

FredKayiwa: have u seen David :: oh you sleep in his house?

AndriusKulikauskas: yes sometimes

FredKayiwa: I have an idea Andrius

AndriusKulikauskas: yes?

FredKayiwa: its about connecting schools here on line

AndriusKulikauskas: please write, I have to go to the kitchen

FredKayiwa: i dont how effective it is but i think if there are some schools from western who needs connections from developing country schools :: i think we can connect them :: well when u are with David call me and i give a shout to him :: see you

AndriusKulikauskas: Hi I'm back

October 2, 2008



Sasha: Hi all :: I am just cheking in to see if everything works here :: bye! :: thanks Andrius for repairing the web interface for yahoo email reading!

PamWithDadamacLearnersAtFantsuam: I am waiting to see if anyone joins me here :: I am using my laptop - the same on I use in Uk :: test

Sasha: HI Pam and all! :: hi Pam

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: hi I am back :: and Hi victor

Victor: Hi everyone

Sasha: hi :: This is Sasha from Serbia :: exciting to hear you are in Nigeria Pam

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: sasha - it is great to chat with you again. i am sorry my connection is rather slow

Sasha: understand :: Its a miracle that people there have also internet

Victor: this is Victor from Nigeria - Pam's learning group (DadaMac Learners)

Sasha: hi Victor, you have a nice name :: what are you learning about?

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: sasha how are you - it si a long time since we chatted

Sasha: yep, today I read a email from you so wanted to drop in and hear more about you and things you are working on

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: we are learning to learn from each other - not just from teachers

Sasha: great, I prefer that way :: I found out that its ver important to ask right question :: in the proces of learning :: somebody said: "if you can ask good question, you already know 95% of the answer"

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: we are learning to learn from our friends at Fanstuam and our new friends on the Internet

Sasha: I always thought of umtost importance to ask questions that are not easily visible

Victor: we are learning a whole lot; using the digital camera, snapping pics, creating blogs, interestingly we do a lot of "learning by doing"

Sasha: those that are hidden

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: Ah sasha I agree with you - the best way to learn is to ask good questions

Sasha: yeah it works especially god with comuter knowledge

Victor: sure sasha ur idea about asking the right question follows

Sasha: yes, it sounds simplistic but I found out that sometimes I make mistakes by just not asking (myself) the right quetions

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: yes - and you are good at answering questions too sasha :-)

Sasha: thanks Pam :: not really otherwise I would be better in problem solving :: am still a beginner

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: welsome Simon

SimonDadamacLearrners: Simon Hi everyone

Sasha: hi Simon, another nice name :: biblical if I am not wrong

SimonDadamacLearrners: Simon Yes it is very Biblical

Sasha: it means; To listen attentively; give heed. :: very nice indeed

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: /room English

Sasha: Pam, did I understod that the chat is on WWP ?

Fola: hi every body

SimonDadamacLearrners: Simon Thank u I will remembering it

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: perry iand mercy are saying hi.

Sasha: hi Fola

Fola: iam fine

Sasha: hi to perry and mercy

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: mercy hi sasha nice name

Sasha: are you Folabi with the internet phone?

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: is pam out of the chat room ?

Fola: yes

Sasha: thanks, but your is more nice :) :: tell me do you use it for internet surfing?

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: sasha teh chat today is to welcome the new dadamac learners to the chat room and share our learning strories

Sasha: ok, thanks

Fola: i use my phone for browsing

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: I am sharing this laptop with Mercy Giwa and Lot

Sasha: fola what are your interests on internet? :: I use the net to learn things

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: hi pam would youb please chat with us?

Sasha: for example I learned about beekeeping and stove building

Doris: /room English

Sasha: are you all in the same place?

Fola: i have interest in sharing ideas and knowledge

Sasha: I learned english by using internet

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha chatting with you for the first time is a plee

Sasha: what kind of knowledge, Fola?

Fola: i really wish to use the internet to let others knows what africa is like

Sasha: thanks perry and mercy! :: in what ways, do you have a blog? :: thats a good way to share experiences and ideas

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha just trying to open a computer nursery/primary school

Fola: i have a blog where i have the pictures of my school

SimonDadamacLearrners: Sasha i wonder what your name means

Sasha: ha nothing realy, its Russian form of Alexander :: Fola, URL?

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: It so much pleasure to teach children computer.

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: i will like to learn something from you,do you have knowledge on geograph? mercy giwa

Sasha: that si your main interest? :: what software do you use? I prefer open source, Linux

Fola: firefox

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha the children are eager to meet you on line so I hope to get the school into the internet

Sasha: what kind of knowledge on geography? :: :) :: are you now with children?

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: fola i am finding this experience interesting.

Sasha: fola, firefox is a browser, a good one, I use it now too but the next step is to use the whole operative system in a open source way

Doosuur: hi everybody

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: simon how are you findinding the experience?

Fola: http://teachingintherurals.blogspot.com

SimonDadamacLearrners: Doris lost her connection

Sasha: instead of microsoft which is a for profit corporate product, I use linux which is a community made operative system

PamAndDadamaPeopleAtFantsuam: not really but i teach geography,my main interest is to learn how to use the internet

Fola: that is the blog

Sasha: thanks Fola

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: Doris this is interesting

Sasha: when I was a kid geography was my main interest

Doosuur: that is doris other name

Fola: it is a pleasure

SimonDadamacLearrners: hi dooduur - are you Doris or somebody else?

Doosuur: all of the above

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: victor how are you doing over there?

Fola: you share same idea with Pam

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha there is a thunderstorm comming and we migth loose our connection

Doosuur: hi perry how is the group going

Sasha: I understand :: Fola I se you are working in very hard conditions

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: doosuur the group is fantastic thanks.

Fola: yeah

SimonDadamacLearrners: perry i am ok and having a good time thank u

Doosuur: hi victor how u finding the experience

Fola: i really wish someday i would upload my video in the blog for you to see

Sasha: do you find it is a hard job? Do you see a future there for yourself?

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha cant hear from you any problem?

Victor: doris I'm good

Sasha: yep I am here, listening to you people

Fola: it is not a hard job

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha you are welcome back.

Fola: i i know their is a future

Sasha: thanks

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: pleease be informed that is lunch time

Fola: in the job for me

Victor: doris I'm finding it hard to keep up the pace of the chat as I see a good number of people are involved :: doris I think the best thing to do is pick up a discussion with one person at a time

SimonDadamacLearrners: It is lunch time Sasha

Doosuur: hi simon how u finding the group

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: i mean junch time in Nigeria for dadamac learners

Sasha: ok, have a nice lunch :: what do you eat for lunch today?

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: mercy is in charge of the lunch for dadamac learners

Fola: the problem is getting my informations passed accross through the net

SimonDadamacLearrners: It is fine but we have to go for lunch now

Sasha: why Fola? :: hi Prosper

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: sasha wqe are taking pounded yam with vegetable soup

ProsperMbwambo: Hi everyone

Sasha: I see you are writing on the blog so everyone can read and learn about you and the village

Fola: hi prosper

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: Hi prosper

Fola: yes

ProsperMbwambo: Hi Sasha

Sasha: Mercy that sounds delicious, I never tasted jam :: yam that is

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: prosper how is kenya

Sasha: Prosper is from tanzania I think

ProsperMbwambo: Prosper,member of Uyoga in Dar es salam,Tanzania

SimonDadamacLearrners: Hi everyone - this is not Simon here now it is Pam

PerryAndMercyDadamacLearnersNigeria: prosper like to know more of you in the near future

Fola: hi pam

SimonDadamacLearrners: Hello Prosper :: I am so happy you can join us

Sasha: fola are there beekeepers in your village?

ProsperMbwambo: I i can share with you friends and exchange our understanding in different things

Fola: nope

SimonDadamacLearrners: How is everyone from Uyoga?

ProsperMbwambo: They are fine

Sasha: why?

SimonDadamacLearrners: sasha - there is good honey in teh market at Ago-Are (I met Fola at Ago-Are)

Fola: i did bee keeping in my higher studies but not deep aspect of it

Sasha: any pecial reason, what kind of area and climate is there?

SimonDadamacLearrners: sasha simon has gone for lunch - but this computer screen is not the usual layout

Sasha: Simon, I am more interested in things people do to earn some money and improwe their life

Doosuur: hi everyone this mercy Giwa

SimonDadamacLearrners: there are not the usual choices on the LHS of ther screen

Fola: that is great

Sasha: Fola, interesting to hear, in old times here, mainly teachers and priests vere beekeepers

SimonDadamacLearrners: it is not possible to change colours and it is not possible to click on "leave the room"

Sasha: do you think beekeeping could be done in your village?

Fola: yes for sure

Sasha: Pam the problem is in settings I think

Fola: but the enviroment is not safe

ProsperMbwambo: Sorry for being late,but i hope to get even a summery of what have been discussed with you friends :: Just to catch up

Sasha: you have to accept cookies or something like that, I think you can choose some option on the welcoe screen of the chat :: why fola?

Fola: after putting a whole lot of energy in that some other people might come in and "steal" or harvest it behind you

Sasha: Prosper we are just talking

SimonDadamacLearrners: Prosper, we have been meeting sasha and experiencing chat

Sasha: same here Fola, nowhere is totaly safe

ProsperMbwambo: Sasha will you do that favour for me pls

Fola: ok

Sasha: but bes can be kept close, in backyard

SimonDadamacLearrners: It has been sasha and people in the Dadamac learning group at Fantsuam

Fola: really

Sasha: Prosper cant do that, you need to do it yourself

SimonDadamacLearrners: sasha - we hope to start a beekeeping project a fantsuam

Fola: do you have a blog showing your bee keeping skills?

Sasha: thats interesting, Pam?

SimonDadamacLearrners: but first we need to source the materails and we do not have funds for that yet

Sasha: not yet but started a blog and will include beekeeping in it

SimonDadamacLearrners: it si one of our future plans.