Field
level mechanism of IT@School Project
The
beauty of the project is that it has not engaged separate
manpower for looking into IT need of the schools. The existing
teachers are trained by resource ful master trainers of
the project (the Master trainers are itself trained teachers
from schools). The resources which the project poses for
field level coordination are as follows.
• Manpower includes about 200 trained Mater trainers
(resource persons)
• About 5600 school IT coordinators to attend the
ICT/IT need of the schools
• Fully equipped central state project office at Thiruvananthapuram.
• Linux resource center (Regional Resource center)
at Ernakulam.
• District resource centers at all districts for district
level monitoring with well established computer labs.
• Central uplinking station and well furnished studio
at Thiruvananthapuram for EDUSAT network
• 95 Satellite interactive terminals (SITs) all over
Kerala with Edusat training facility.
• Receive Only Terminals (ROTs) in all schools for
reception of educational Programmes through ViCTERS(Virtual
classroom technology on EDUSAT for rural schools) educational
channel