Phaung Daw Oo Monastic Education High School Community

Let's talk about the PDO Community together,.... I invite you to join the discussion.

Frank Dirks — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:15:48 GMT

Dear all,

The last few months I have been busy explaining people what an Online Community is and what it can mean for an organisation like PDO.

Online Communities are very young and modern tools which enable people to collaborate while living far from eachother. They enable people to share information, respond to information and create new common knowledge and understanding about several subjects related to the purpose of the Community. Thanks to this quality of the tool, people feel more connected to eachother and eachothers lives because they can interact when and where they want with eachother. In short; an Online Community enables you to work together with people across the world in a sense like they live just next door,.... with one exeption! They don't live next door!

What does this mean for people who joined a Community like this one? After you subscribed to the Community you probably uploaded a nice picture of yourself and wrote a nice biography about your life, friends and so on. By doing this you shared your personal information with others, with who you became 'online friends' or not. Some of these friends live nearby, in your school, village, or country, while others lives 10000 kilometers away from you. While some of these people you are able to meet during your stroll around the school in the evening, others you can only actually meet in person when you travel 2 or 3 days or even more. The true purpose of a community like this one, is to bridge this difference. It is a technical tool to connect to who are nearby AND to those who are far away.

I want to share a secret with you,... Creating this Community as a technical tool is actually the easy part! The most difficult, inspiring AND rewarding part is yours to be done! And that is: to Include people who are far, far, far away in your daily thoughts and perception as if they live close to you. This seems simple but can be very difficult.

For example: When I come home from work in the evening it's very likely that I tell my girlfriend about a new idea I had today for the Golden House for example. It maybe even come to my mind to sent an email to Nico, Frederique and Tim because they work together with me. These people live close (nearby) to me and because of that automatically I feel connected to them and automatically I communicate with them. How much more inspiring would it be though if I would share this new idea to Yi Mon of the Golden House and to everyone who could be interested, by posting it on this Community? Then even people who I may not know at all could get inspired by it, and start to help to realise it. Even people who will join the community in the future will be able to read about my idea.

So I ask myself,....' What could actually happen if?'

I not only include people who live inside my daily environment into my life? But also include people outside my daily environment into my life on a daily basis?

This is one thing that this community is about. I invite you to join me in this discussion, Frank

High Hopes and Class (Song by PDO Children with Ross Green)

Frank Dirks — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:31:54 GMT

Project of Ross Green (http://www.musicseedsinternational.com) together with the children of the Golden House

High Hopes and Class

We've got high hopes, we've got class. Phaung Daw Oo school is a blast

We go to Phaung Daw Oo in Mandalay. A monastic school where many monks stay
I ride my bicycle, it's blue. Takes me thirty minutes to get to school

We've got high hopes, we've got class. Phaung Daw Oo school is a blast

We have shops, an office and classrooms. A library, a clinic and a dormitory too
Seven thousand students, many ethnic groups. Shan, Monh, Kayin, Ba-O, Bumar, Lahhu

We've got high hopes, we've got class. Phaung Daw Oo school is a blast

People come to visit, from foreign lands. the arrange to teach us, with many plans
They make donations, Phaung Daw Oo is free. I hear a blackbird telling me to study

We've got high hopes, we've got class. Phaung Daw Oo school is a blast

Hello My name is (Song by PDO Children with Ross Green)

Frank Dirks — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:19:03 GMT

Project of Ross Green (http://www.musicseedsinternational.com) together with the children of the Golden House

Hello My name Is

Hello my name is, I come from Mandalay.

Where do you come from? what is your name?

How are you? I am fine. Where do you live?

I live in Phaung Daw Oo.

Hello my name is, I come from Mandalay.

Where are you going? How long will you stay?

Where should we go? What should we do?

I want to sing, a song with you.

We come from the hostel, we are Golden House

We want to make music, we want to make sounds.

Hello my name is, I come from Mandalay.

How old are you now? What is you age?

How are you? I am fine. Where do you live?

I live in Phaung Daw Oo.

Where should we go? What should we do?

I want to sing, a song with you.

Hello my name is-I come from Mandalay

Introduction to PDO Highschool in Mandalay Part 1

Frank Dirks — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:36:03 GMT

This movie is a good introduction for those who want to know what Phaung Daw Oo Highschool is, and about daily life of the children who study and live there. Movie by Nico Schoenmakers (World Child Care Foundation)

Introduction to PDO Highschool in Mandalay Part 2

Frank Dirks — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:08:15 GMT

Phaung Daw Oo Highschool

host — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:40:54 GMT

This is the location and the address of PDO Monastic Education Highschool Dawna Bwa Quarter Aungmyaetharsan Township Mandalay, Myanmar + 95 - (0)2 - 39855 + 95 - (0)9 - 2026951

Internet Connection for PDO

boswar — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:09:03 GMT

We applied 2 new Internet Line for Phaung Daw Oo School last week. The application process will take about 1 month. After that ISP(Internet Service Provider) will install internet for our school.

What we have before is Broadband Wireless line. It cost about 4000 US$ when we installed at 2004. It costs 130 US$ per month for 512 Kbps speed.

Now, We are going to install 2 new WiMax Internet line, it's also Wireless. It will cost about 1500 US$ per line for first time payment. We have to pay 130 US$ per month for 512 Kbps for each.

After we have 3 internet connection, 1 connection is for office, 1 connection is for Foerderverein Myanmar e.V and 1 connection is for students and general usage.

Frank and I planned to create a rule and regulation for effective internet usage for the whole school.

Suggestions for PDO Community

Frank Dirks — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:43:03 GMT

Dear Visitor,

If you have any suggestions for the Phaung Daw Oo Community, please post them here. We will evaluate them on a regular basis and see which of them we can implement.

Kind regards, Frank Dirks