Community-based support for Girl Guide Training

Abstract

The present demanding nature of day to day tasks has left primary and secondary school students with less time for activities that are related to the learning in a non formal setting, outside of school. Girl Guide Training delivers high quality non-formal educational program and will provide girls and young women dynamic, flexible and values-based training to develop life skills, leadership and citizenship. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts organizations all over the world give children and young women unique and exciting opportunities for learning outside of school. Even though this movement has been spread all over the world, all the girls and women in Sri Lanka have not been given the equal opportunity to swing with this training due to difficulties identified as follows. Currently, most of the schools have the passion of initiating a Girl Guide society, but the voluntary nature of the Girl Guide activities have reduced the number of teacher involvement for girl guiding. Further, more support and guidance from the community is required to be extended towards the enhancement of the Girl Guide performance and knowledge. As the society is now functioning at a fast pace the involvement of the community is becoming lesser. In addition, the only communication method of transmitting related information on the domain is through the school guiding teacher. Relying on this one source of information which has limitations leave most knowledge and information required for guiding training unexploited by the school guiding society. In connecting the students with the Girl Guide Association, Information system can be used as a tool that would bridge the division and allow communication and sharing of both knowledge and information between Girl Guide Association and students. This subjective research project provides an effective solution for the above mentioned problem through incorporating an e-learning platform along with offline and online functions to accomplish the student requirements in order to maximize the Girl Guide population. Thus implementing an e-learning solution for Girl Guide Association which supports all girls irrespective where a Girl Guide society exists in the school or not. A variety of interactive content including audio, video media is used to deliver lessons. The other most important feature is the re-use of existing content available and among them, the use of virtual piano for learning the practical side of music. Further, software tool such as Windows Media Player, Macromedia Flash, Photoshop & other online tools such as Moovly, Dipity & Poowtoon were used.