Template:Improvement of e-Learning Facilities and Soft Skills of the Students of Children’s Home
| Project Number | NF/PG/2014/0008 | Grant Agency / Donors | Ratnam Foundation, UK,Hindu Board Children Home | Project Owner | Seran Sivananthamoorthy | |
| Project Mentor | Seran Sivananthamoorthy | Project Locations | Jaffna | Project Period | 2014 April – 2014 December | |
| Stakeholders | Various Stakeholders, Volunteers of the Noolaham Foundation | |||||
TheImprovement of e-Learning Facilities and Soft Skills of the Students of Children’s Home project is to increase the capacity of 50 school going children in Hindu Board Children Home on their soft skills, general knowledge, and leadership. Other objective of the project is to introduce and help them familiarize to Moodle based interactive virtual learning system and digitize, archive education related document and conducting promotion activities for improving the learning facilities for the children home’s students. Noolaham Foundation implemented this project in collaboration with Hindu Board Children Home (HBCH), Thirunelvely, Jaffna.
During the project period twenty three training sessions were conducted. Each training session lasted for about three hours. Forty six students and six resource persons participated in these training sessions. The training series included the following: personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationships with other people. Soft skills complement hard skills which children are required to develop in order to increase their employability in the future. They are related to feelings, emotions, insights and IQ.
Further NF’s virtual learning environment program which is called “Pallikoodam" and digital library (noolaham.org) were introduced. Information Literacy training was provided so that they can search, evaluate, obtain and use study materials and other information sources from Noolaham Digital Library, Epallikoodam and the internet.
