BASIC COMPUTING

KNOWLEDGE SPREADING
PROGRAM

W.M. PRAVEERA AROSH

ESOFT METRO CAMPUS | HND 27

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INTRODUCTION

I
n Today’s world technology is very advanced, Technology is used even in the basic
needs of a country such as education, health, transportation. Technology is also used
today to facilitate the day-to-day activities of the human. Out of the continents of the
world, technology is mostly used by the countries of the European continent. This is due to
the fact that people on that continent are increasingly computer literate. Although the Asian
continent has adopted a technology that is second to none, there are still developing countries
on this continent. Computer literacy is relatively advanced in Sri Lanka, which developing
country in the Asian region. But there are two parts in Sri Lanka, those who have computer
technical knowledge and those who do not have computer technical knowledge. It called
Digital Divide.

Sub Projects
Divide the entire project into sections and separate members for each section. The subprojects
and their respective managers are listed down below.

Sub project Manager Sub Project Role

Eshan Monitor Evaluator
Arosh Specialist
Dimuth Implementer
Malshi Resource Investigator
Roshen Completer Finisher

The goal of this project

The Goal of this project is reducing the digital divide and increase the knowledge of those
students who never had experienced a learning system with a proper learning material such as
electronic components, peripheral components.

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Milestones Of the Project
 Select a school for the project and get the permission.
 Discussed with the principal of this school and select a proper date, time and target
audience.
 Decide the requirements of that target audience.
 Discuss team members for this project.
 Create a content that suitable for that target audience.
 Then we found the needed learning materials.
 Create a budget for this whole project.
 Choose a suitable transport method and reach to the school.
 Do that project
 Get feedback of target audience and principal of school.

Select a school
It took a lot of effort to choose a school according to the current situation in the country.
There we had to pay more attention to transport facilities. For these reasons, finding a school
within the Galle district was a big challenge for us. However, Medawela College in Boossa
town in the Galle district was chosen as our school. The school has a very low level of
computer literacy and the number of students studying there is very low.

Results of discussion
After discussions with the Principal of Boossa Meddewela College, a suitable date and time
for the do of this project was selected. Then we selected 20th of June 2022 at 2.30 pm (after
school time) for doing this project.

Requirements of the target audience

They need to get as much notice as possible within two hours. It means they want to learning
experience with hardware components like never before.

Discussion of team members

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Content
IOT (internet of things)
 What is IOT
 Start of using IOT in world & Sri Lankans
 How to evolution it in Sri Lankans
Examples of IOT
 Smart home security system. (also include google home facility)
 Biometrics scanners & security system like as Face ID, fingerprint, eye contact
 Working robotic arms for design a motor car architecture & other automation
systems, (also include computerized procedure)
 Finally, how to use application software for study above things.
 In modern we use different kind of learning materials such as LMS, video assisted
learning, CAD (computer Aided Learning system), CBL (computer based learning
system)
Computer Hardware
 What is computer?
 Inside of laptop motherboard & desktop computer motherboard
 What is the main difference about laptop & desktop pc motherboard?
 Example of computer hardware (internal & external devices & it should be
categorizing input devices, output devices, scanners, printer, network devices)
 Uses of each computer hardware which are mentioned above. (this may include only
important facts & high resolution images, also this may include short video clips of
how to working each hardware parts.)
 Advantages of using computer hardware.
 How we decide to buy a computer for each person working usage. (it should be
including performance of hardware, customer budget, product quality)

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Learning materials

Computer Motherboards
 Mini-ITX board
 Micro-ATX board
 ATX board
 Extend ATX board
Secondary Storage Devices
 Magnetic Hard Drive (500GB, 1TB)
 M.2 SATA III SSD (128 GB, 256GB)
 2.5 SATA III SSD (120GB, 256GB)
 CD (750 MB – 900 MB)
 DVD (3.2 GB – 4.7 GB)
Cables
 SATA III desktop motherboard cable
 ATX power cable (24 pins )
 VGA Cable
 HDMI Cable
 Front Panel Connectors & cables
 Network Cable with RJ45 connectors
Power Supply units
 Corsair CV450 450W Bronze power supply
 ANTEC CUPRUM STRIKE CSK 550W Bronze power supply
Other Hardware Devices
 ADATA 4GB DDR4 2666 MHz Desktop Ram
 Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ Desktop Ram
 2.5 HDD External Caddy

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Budget
Details Item Quantity Total
Price
Rent EPSON EB S05 Multimedia Projector ( 3 hours ) - 1 5000/=
Rent 7 x 7 Tripod projector screen ( 3 hours ) - 1 3500/=
Transport - - 2500/=
Refreshments - - 1500/=
RJ 45 connectors ( For Project ) 75/= 8 600/=
Empty CD & DVD ( For Project ) 65/= 10 650/=
Total Amount 13750/=
Budget for Charity Work
160 Pages Single Rule Exercise Books 160/= 32 5120/=
Atlas Blue pen 20/= 32 640/=
Sticker Cards ( Name printed ) 200/= 3 600/=
Brown paper wrapping bag 25/= 32 800/=
Total Amount 7160/=

Charity Work Amount + Project Amount 29910/=

Transport method

 We planned to transport by train. Because of the fuel problem in Sri Lanka. It took around
1 hour and 15 minutes and travel cost was Rs. 250/=.

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Feedback

How I experience this project

 Working as a team
 Making a correct project plan
 Communicate with the team
members
 Time management
 Critical Thinking
 Collaboration with others
 Working effectively with a gathering of individuals to
achieve common consequence or objective.
 Learning how to project will be performed out,
supervised, managed and finished.
 Learn different types of communication with team
members such as online meeting, chat group,
physically meeting,
 Learn many time management methods like as
maintenance of the scheduled plan, create a list of
tasks, estimate resources and time.
 Learn how to define the process of reasoning and
enquiring in order to establish and update opinion
based on good reasoning.
 Learn problem solving in unique ways, improve blend
of interactions, connectivity with each member
ability.

How I feel it
 I enjoyed working in a team environment, and I get along well with people.
 I understood working with a team needs a good communication. Because it helps to
delegate tasks more easily, which led to earlier completion dates.
 This was also challenging, as it can mean working with people with very different
personalities and perspectives.

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Analyzing Project

Managing time
In fact, in some projects, I could not manage time. Because of the novelty of the subject and
some of the instructions were unclear. Due to power outages and other things. But in the
middle of the time period, I was able to manage my time well.

Team Working
The first day I thought this was not a new experience and this would be the other group work
I did. But no, I was wrong this was a challenge for me sometimes. But in the middle of the
time period, I was able to manage it.

About the Lecturer

Our lecturer showed us through his teaching strategy how he is an experienced teacher in this
subject and field. He explained all the facts on the subject very well. His communication
styles, movements, speaking styles are perfect also very clear and neat.

Communication
We used Tuckman's team development stages to improve the communication skills of our
team members.

Action Plan
 As a project manager in future, this subject helps every part of the project run more
smoothly.
 This allows a project team to focus on the work that matters, free from the distractions
caused by tasks going off track or budgets spinning out of control.
 Be an experienced project manager and complete the all tasks correctly and get more
profit.

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Interpersonal Skills

Our team helped in many ways to make our project a success. In the meantime, I must say
that I have acted remarkably well here. Because I'm the one carrying the full load here.
Somehow it worked from the day I planned this until the very end. I was a great help to the
team as organizer and acting manager as well as program manager and hardware finder.

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Team Dynamics

Gibbs Reflective Cycle

Gibbs Reflective Cycle is one of a number of theoretical models used to assist with writing
reflectively.

The model was created by Professor Graham Gibbs and appeared in Learning by Doing (Gibbs,
1988):

Gibb’s model was developed from an earlier theoretical model created by Kolb, known as
Four Stage Experiential Learning Cycle (McLeod, 2017).

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TEAM DYNAMICS According to Gibb’s Cycle

NAME What What What is the Evaluation Analysis Conclusion

would to happened? feeling? Good
do? Or
Bad

Eshan He is the He did it very Actually, I He is a good He had to However he is a

leader friendly and co- think he did leader. take a main good team mate
and he operatively. his best. part also as a and he helped a
had to do But presenting program lot.
guide us. skills are not presenter.
good.

Dimuth Contact He did it very He did his He is a good He had to do However, he is a

the hard. task at our contactor. small part. good assistance,
principal insistence. But he did it but his
of that But as shit. personality
school communication should provide.
styles are
extremely low.

Malshi Find She did that task Although She is a good She was However, she has
resources as she wanted. she resource tasked with a good
and other Not the way the performed investigator. finding the personality. But
materials team wanted. the duties But Lacks the sources the
assigned to quality of team needed,
her as she working well not the ones
wanted, it with other team they didn't
did not suit members want.
the team.

Roshen

Arosh

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Work Breakdown
  Structure      
               
Project
  24 – 02 - 2022 
  Start    
               
Leve Assigned
WBS Task Description Start End Notes
 

l To
1 1 SUBSCRIPTION   2022 2022  
 
Discussing the requirements Arrange a meeting with
2 1.1 Committee 15/05/2022 15/05/2022
  of the target audience team members
Identifying the main need of Arrange a meeting with
2 1.2 Committee 15/05/2022 15/05/2022
  the them team members
Checking places for the Contact the
3 1.3 Committee 17/05/2022 26/05/2022
  project environmental association
Checking other services Contact all the services
3 1.4 Committee 19/05/2022 21/05/2022
  availability and check
Providing information to the
4 1.5 Committee 27/05/2022 27/05/2022 Make the document
  target audience

4 1.6 Discussing budget Committee 27/05/2022 27/05/2022 Make the budget

 
1 2 INSPECTION  
 
Paying an advance to SPC
2 2.1 Praveera 29/05/2022 29/05/2022  Rs. 3000/=
  book shop.
 Motherboards, SATA,
2 2.2 Find all the components. Commitee 29/05/2022 15/06/2022
  Cables, etc.
 Signed by the lecturer-
3 2.3 Get the permission letter. Eshan 17/06/2022 17/06/2022
  in-charge.
1 3 EXECUTION  
 
2 3.1 Buy the books and pens. Praveera 19/06/2022 19/06/2022  All roughly Rs. 7000/=
 
 From AKRA FOTO
3 3.2 Sticker printing. Praveera 19/06/2022 19/06/2022
  Ambalangoda
2 3.3 Gather all the components. Praveera 20/06/2022 20/06/2022  -
 
   4  CLOSURE  
 
 Pay the rest of
1 4.1 Eshan 21/06/2022 21/06/2022  All roughly Rs.30 000/=
charges.
1 4.2  Return the all tools. Committee 22/06/2022 22/06/2022  none

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Social media With the photos and
2 4.3 Praveera 23/06/2022 24/06/2022
influencing. videos.

Feasibility Study

As we all know the digital divide is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and
regions that have access to modern information and communications technology (ICT), and
those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone,
television, personal computers and internet connectivity. Then the main target is reducing this
digital divide of students who are studying in a developing school.

Summarize of lesson

 Main introduction about Information and Communication Technology

This is the first part of lesson. In this part I introduced basic idea of ICT and what are the uses
of ICT such as education, health, transport and other fields.

 Introduction about Internet of Things

In modern century, IOT is the most popular technology that uses in ICT. So this is little bit
difficult to give fundamental of IOT. However, in this topic, I introduced history of IOT, how
to evaluation it in Sri Lanka, what are the uses of IOT.

 Smart Virtual facilities.

This topic is also related in above IOT topic. Because smart virtual facility is one of the
results of Internet of things. In this topic, I introduced smart security system such as smart
door locks, working of robotic arms, Biometrics security systems.

 How to use ICT in education.

This is little bit different than other topics, because the traditional learning system should be
converted in modern LMS based Learning system. I introduced this part, how to work with
LMS, How to prefer the web site for education purpose.

 Computer hardware

This is main focused point that I thought to introduce to target audience. In this part I
introduced, what are the peripheral devices, parts of computer motherboard, technology of
each part, what are the uses of each part. As well as I taught how to buy personal computer
with matching the components.

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Evaluation
Good
 Lectures are understandable and
lecture notes are very clear.
 The subject is also interesting
 Working as a team is also good
experience
Bad
 Some Lectures were bit boring
 Not all participants in the group
sometimes paid their full attention.
 Due to the current situation in the
country, all group projects had to be
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 The lecturer was open-minded and planned by a WhatsApp group and
helped to solve problems any time. other online platforms only.
 All the team mates were so friendly  Because the subject was new, some
and cooperative. projects got a little messy.

CONCLUSION

W e hoped that this program would give a school with digital bridge children the
basic knowledge of computers as they do not have the basic knowledge, with the
opportunity to learn that basic knowledge in a practical way with the necessary
hardware like never before. It can be said that we as a team have succeeded in this endeavor
in the face of the current situation in our country through many obstacles. Because in the end
we got very good compliments. We also hope that the students of that college were able to
clear their doubts about knowledge. In the end, I'm very happy to be able to make such

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progress on a program like this that we have never done before, and our team support and
communication skills have helped make this even better.

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