About LEAD:
LEAD (阳光, sunlight in Chinese) is a Chinese non-profit association that has been delivering courses to Chinese migrant schools since 2003. The extra classes are given by volunteers to the children during the week-end on one of the following topics: Literature, English, Sciences, Art, Junior Achievement (Economics) and Computer Sciences. As for the first semester of 2009, over 200 volunteers from LEAD have been delivering courses to 300 students from 5 different schools in Beijing. Classes are held almost every week-end. LEAD and the Beijing Gdium team got in touch in February of this year and have been regularly participating in events ever since. Some Gdiums have been used at the computer sciences classes, mostly with Rur-ple, Gcompris and Open Office Writer.
About the event:
On June 7th, LEAD organized an additional event to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the organization and the end of the school years for the pupils. 350 primary school and middle school children gathered at the Yimin (宜民) school where they could take part in 13 games and activities prepared by the volunteers from LEAD. On the top of that, some of the students that had been taking classes with LEAD over the last semester proposed 4 shows to the numerous crowd that had joined the event. Gdiums were used in one of the activities where students were to challenge one another on who could type the fastest using a learning program from Gcompris. The Gdium team is very proud to have participated in this event and is looking forward to further cooperating with LEAD in the future.
We are going to work on having it a bit less formal, I am not that much of a Blog writer myself.作者: liwen 时间: 2009-6-12 00:00
放在月报有点太频繁了，有盲目追求数字的嫌疑...作者: 小ta 时间: 2009-6-12 06:40
Julien, there is one course need to be revised. Does the "social life" mean our previous lesson "team activity" which is not included this semester? And we have another course named "Junior Achievement" (my team) to bring children some simple economice knowledge.作者: julien 时间: 2009-6-12 09:43
Social life was an attempt to translate JA, I will replace it by economics.
Thanks :)作者: 小ta 时间: 2009-6-12 10:06
emmm, it's not econoimcs but "Junior Achievement"作者: julien 时间: 2009-6-12 10:12
Problem is Junior Achievement does not really tells what the class is about.
How about Junior Achievement (Economics) ?作者: 小ta 时间: 2009-6-12 10:18
sure~作者: 孙铭 时间: 2009-6-12 18:51
脑袋疼作者: JessieY 时间: 2009-6-12 22:33
同孙铭老师的感觉……作者: 加肥猫 时间: 2009-6-12 22:44
孩子们要好好学习英文啊!作者: 加肥猫 时间: 2009-6-12 22:57
The lesson "team activity" better be translated in Children Applied Psychology. They are be given mostly through group games, which children are crazy about.
It's held in this semester by our volunteers from BUU, so the whole pupils number should be over 300.作者: yixuan 时间: 2009-6-13 03:24
maybe change the word "pupils" to children or students? Pupils is rarely used in modern language beside in novels(maybe it is just in US). That is just my 2 cents. anyway. good stuff. keep up the good work作者: yixuan 时间: 2009-6-13 03:27
I don't know you guys now this or not. JA is a NPO, and it is pretty big. So maybe the name is ok after all??
http://www.ja.org/作者: 小ta 时间: 2009-6-13 06:46
Beau, we agreed to use "JA" and I think Julien just gave a good suggestion to translate JA course here in LEAD by adding "Economics". People are curious about what JA is when they first hear it. In LEAD we're cooperating with JA to share two lessons now. One is JA-our city and the other is JA-our world. Both include economice knowledge and green environmental application.
我想我们已经同意使用JA（经济学）这样的字眼，这能比较明显体现JA的课程具体是什么。很多人一开始听到JA都不知道是青年成就这个课程是干嘛的，这其实就是我们阳光和JA合作的一个在小学里开展的课程。目前有两门：我们的城市和我们的世界，都是讲授浅显经济学和绿色环保知识的。作者: julien 时间: 2009-6-13 11:04 本帖最后由 julien 于 2009-6-13 11:05 编辑
Agreed, I will change by children, Thanks.作者: yixuan 时间: 2009-6-13 11:34
o, cool. I didn't know you guys are working with JA and stuff. Nevermind, I was wrong.作者: 加肥猫 时间: 2009-6-16 12:51
另一个重要问题，经宇轩提醒，给阳光的英文翻译应该是SUNSHINE，而不是SUNLIGHT。我们都自诩为SUNSHINER作者: 小ta 时间: 2009-6-16 13:24
不是LEAD么？然后我们都是LEADER~作者: 浮游 时间: 2009-6-16 13:46
不是ygclub么？然后我们都是ygcluber~作者: liwen 时间: 2009-6-16 13:59
leader 挺好～作者: 小ta 时间: 2009-6-16 14:59
晕死，闹半天大家对于阳光的英文名字还如此不统一啊？个人心中一个太阳~
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