AGE - project funded by

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AGE - project funded by

• Cradle investment Programme CIP ?
• MDeC Technopreneur Pre-seed Fund
  Both are Government grantsA project to close
  the digital divide between nations and
  rural/urban areas until now a big challenge
  globally.

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Who am I? Alan Foo

• Have been in IT since 70s
• 12 years banking/finance Sr officer in bank/GM
  in Cempaka Finance
• Ran a Banking system company
• 1st to introduce POS using Pc xt in1986
• Created Malaysias 1st Programming language
  called Visualgram
• Created AGE using Visualgram
• Now launching AGE paperless homework project
  unique in the world

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Objective 1 Empowering teachers to the next
level for a greener world

• To empower teachers from Paper/blackboard
  to ---gt Digital Classrooms ----gt
  Digital Tutorials and Homework assignments
  (uplift teachers to the next level for FREE
  ). for a greener world

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Objective 2 Easy availability of Contents

• While it is much easier to carryhardware to
  the remotest of areas,getting hold of
  appropriate coursewareor content is a big
  hurdle.AGE makes it easily available
  andeasily reached.

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The solution Closes the digital divides

• Current platforms -
  CDs/DVDs high cost -
  Online Flash/Java not all schools
  have
  Internet connections or broadband. Slow
  access.are rich men's platforms
  Trying to reach out to the poor
  withrich men's tool is not going to work
  Any attempt to use
  these for EFA/digital divide will fail
  AGE is the poor men's
  tool. Equitable access to both
  rural and urban schools.

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AGE reaches out ...

• AGE's mulitmedia modules are small
• Anyone with a simple dial up needs only
  seconds/mins of download toobtain
  hours/days of usage.When the world is
  talking about hours of downloads minutes of
  usage.
• It runs offline without Internet.
• Modules easily distributed among students

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AGE helps rural communities

• Modules are easily transferred through
  Internet and distributed locally to rural
  communities - the key to successful
  introduction of ICT in mass Education
• Cost of development and distributionis very
  low indeed.... it costs us only US5-00
  hosting fees for 380 million
  downloads/month !!

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All will Benefit using AGE

• The pupils
• The teachers
• The schools (rural and urban)?
• The Government and
  our Mother Earth

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Main benefits

• Eases teachers' workload tremendouslyEntire
  homework process preparation to collations of
  marks on auto drive )?
• Excellent delivery/exchange of digital contents
  between home and school computers. (home
  computers for school work not games!)?
• Instant equitable rural and urban access to ready
  materials (with or without Internet all can have
  them instantly)?
• Fast learning speed and availability of vast
  resources of contents for constant revisions etc

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Major benefits....

• Saves Students money and time (more money for
  canteen)?
• Saves hundreds of millions in nationwide ICT
  implementation costs
• Saves the millions of trees - no paper!
• Heavy school bags...no more diskettes or
  pendrives
• .....plus many more. To this end.... AGE
  provides.

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What AGE offers

• 1. A simple straight forward homework generating
  tool for teachers. ( Even for dummies) AGE
  Workbook Generator other tools
• 2. Plenty of small sized modules able to
  REACH almost everyone instantly-from the most
  urban to the most rural without hassle.
• 3. All using existing infrastructures and
  facilities All are essential conditions for
  successful ICT in mass Education

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Demo of AGE modules...All links to run modules
only valid if AGE modules have been installed.

• Learning English through Anti-smoking campaign
  (or anti-drug, anti-AIDs?)Run Anti-smoking
  module See Folder the size See video
• Learn Chinese with sound and interactions(still
  wondering how anyone can learn Chinese purely
  from books!)Chinese Asking for Help module See
  folder the size See video
• List of contents (many more to come) Create
  instant Digital Homework ( 3 minutes or less) To
  run workbook generator or others See video
• 4 stroke engines Run 4 strokes engine (73k) See
  folder
• Additional Mathematics O level
  click here link see folder See video

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What we have done so far....Go to Modules'
folders Contents list

• Preschools multi languages Chinese, Malay and
  English
• Primary schools UPSR English revisions/tutorials/
  model tests
• Lower Secondary PMR English tutorials/model
  tests
• Upper Secondary SPM English model tests
• Chinese Mandarin basic hanyu pinyin tutorials for
  International students, basic conversation and
  words. Primary schools exercises
• Additional Maths SPM Tutorials/model tests
  Forms4/5 O levels
• gt 400 E-books- instant home libraryAesops'
  fables, children stories, Novels, Sci-fi, Poems,
  Plays, Adventure stories, Short stories,
  Miscellaneous stories.
• See current and future modules.

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Other free software included ...

• Free Wordweb dictionary Very useful when looking
  up for words. Beats any paperbased dictionaries.
  Run Wordweb
• Speakonia Text to speech software This assists
  students how to pronounce any word...based on
  Microsoft Speech engine. Speakonia - text to
  speech
• Irfanview graphic programsfor teachers to
  convert and maintain their graphics.
• AGE text based Dictionaries/translators
  English, EnglishltMalay,
  EnglishltMalaygtChinese with sound support.
  Scientific terms for MalayltgtEnglish plus many
  more to come. Run AGE dictionary

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Support materials provided free for teachers.

• Extra supporting materials continuously
  supplied free for registered teachers/users!
• Thousands of Graphics
• Templates
• Background patterns for easy
  creation of modules.

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That's only for starters...! More added everyday.

• We are adding more and more everyday with our
  grant with 6 more months to go!
• Teachers' contributions
• Teachers exchange center (why reinvent the
  wheel? One person does it, share with the rest
  of the world)
• Student clubs' contributions...In the end ...no
  teacher needs to prepare any more homework!

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All will have easy access

• All teachers , students, schoolswill have
  easy access to Easy tolearn modules.However
  good your pedagogy is,with AGE, its
  effectiveness will beenhanced.

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Get these for free.

• Empower entire countrys teachers to the next
  level.
• Free multimedia contents forhomework for use in
  schools
• Save your trees and environment
• Save millions in infrastructures all
  these for free.

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Available now...

• Up to 100,000 licences for schools in all
  countries FREE for 1 year (or more if they
  contribute to our contents base.) Each school
  two licences 1. for the school library for
  students to use2. for a teacher's laptop to be
  used in classRegister at www.paperlesshomework.c
  om/Yregister.htm

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Other countries...

• Our next stop... China , India and
  Indonesia ..together with 2.7billion
  peoplewhere we would have physical
  presence.FREE for their schools as well for 1
  year(or more if they contribute to our contents
  base.)Other countries are also invited....
  

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For more developments...

• Log in to our web site and find more about our
  developments.... www.paperlesshomework.com
• Help us spread the word and raise money for your
  school or charity or yourself while doing it!
  Contact me for 1 to 1 talk.Email
  paperlesshomework_at_yahoo.com Facebook
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