Photoshop workshop

Last Wednesday group A of the Self Help Group (SHG) met to continue making teaching materials and to take a workshop in ‘Photoshop’ run by two of the SHG themselves.

When we started making power point presentations at the beginning of the year, it took the group 3 to 4 hours to put one together. Last Wednesday, one of the girls from the group completed one in 40 minutes.

The two photoshop experts displayed their teaching skills, by talking each member of the group through the procedure to cut out a figure from a photo, paste it onto a blank page, but a different background on the photo, remove blemishes from skin and to duplicate the photo and change the colours and hues.

One of the girls who until now had not been at all interested in doing any of the work was not only enthusiastic about making the first photo but also wanted to keep the computer to work on the second one. One of the boys who had also been disinterested in the groups activities asked for the computer program to take home and install on his computer to practice at home.

As a facilitator for the group, it was an encouraging day to see all so enthused and motivated.

Stay tuned for more positive updates.

Youth becoming confident trainers

Last week group B of the Self Help Group met to continue making educational materials while we wait for permission to teach in the schools.

One of the girls came to the centre early in the day to start work on the powerpoint presentation and we made the film clips for verbs. Students in the schools that we visit will be shown the film clip and asked to guess what the verb is. In this way we hope to engage them in active rather than passive learning.

Verbs

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Our computer student who has gone from not knowing anything about a computer, to teaching the boys that came later in the day is showing much more confidence in herself and using the computer and it was a pleasure to see.

We will post all of the materials online for teachers and groups in other areas of Lebanon.

In conjunction with preparing materials, students will also receive training on photoshop. One of the group works with this programme in his sign making job and will share his skills with the rest of the group next week.

Little by little, we are becoming a cohesive, confident and skilled group.

Motiviting everybody

While waiting for permission to enter schools to conduct awareness raising and inclusive activities for the Right to Education for children with disabilities, the Self Help Group (SHG) has begun preparing materials.

Due to the limited number of computers and the fact that the male youth already have quite good computer skills, the girls have been concentrating on producing the materials on the computers, leaving the boys feeling that they are not contributing to their full capacity.

As some of the boys work and it will be most likely that the girls will go to teach and run activities in the schools, we have decided to enlist the help of the Nabil Badran’s computer support person to work with the boys to put together a workshop on photoshop. At least 3 of the boys are experts in this programme, so they will collaborate to plan and deliver a workshop for the rest of the SHG. In this way, their confidence to plan and teach will increase and at the same time building the capacity of the whole group.

Once the SHG has had the opportunity to become confident with this programme, they will then run workshops with the teachers in Nabil Badran Centre and Women’s Humanitarian Organisation and the two community committees, furthering their presentation skills and building the capacities of the community.

More awareness raising activities

Friday 30^th January, the activities designed and prepared by the Self Help Group were implemented in Bourj al Barajne, to a small group of keen children. All very intelligently and 50% accurately, guessed what the letters of the Arabic sign language might be and were very enthusiastic about checking their answers on the power point presentation.

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As it was a small group of children, they worked through the power-point activity by themselves, moving on to each letter when they were ready and with the guidance of the two facilitators. At the end of the session, they were very keen to introduced themselves in sign language and tell us their age.

Their positive attitude was an encouraging sight in the quest to facilitate inclusion for the Right to Education for children with disabilities.