Wide Horizons Students Blog Link

Wide Horizons Students' Blogs 

http://thinzaraungmyint.blogspot.com/  Kyi Khala

http://dogcrazy09.blogspot.com/# Edward

http://background012.blogspot.com/  day wah

http://creativeidea16.blogspot.com/ Zoaw Htaw

http://article1993.blogspot.com/ Mya Win

http://cherrywin20.blogspot.com/#     Cherry Win

http://jalornhtaw.blogspot.com/ Jalorn

http://ahremorganization.blogspot.com/ john soe

http://phyoachitchit.blogspot.com/     Phyo Wai Lin

http://lisuadvertisement.blogspot.com/ avyar

http://floweringmeyou.blogspot.com/ Than Maung

http://mytraditionalderss.blogspot.com/ Pa Pa Moe

http://ohnshipvillage.blogspot.com/# - Jhon

http://snowmary2016.blogspot.com/ mary

http://nayhlaingkoko.blogspot.com/ koko

http://maelarefugee.blogspot.com/ wah ku paw

http://juwuthainote07.blogspot.com/  J Ah Dau

http://pyawtawschool.blogspot.com/     Mu Ku

http://communitybenefitorganization.blogspot.com/  Pakaw Mol

http://monwomenorganization.blogspot.com/# Mi Lyahwondi Chan

http://shurlaiaonkunheing16.blogspot.com/  Murng

http://irrawaddyfg.blogspot.com/ Kay Dar Win

http://myinzut.blogspot.com/  Myint Zu Hmwe 

2015-2016 Wide Horizons Students Newsletter Volume 1

2015-2016 Wide Horizons Newsletter Volume 1 

Every year the Wide Horizons students plan, write, edit and publish student newsletters that are distributed to our donors, partners and friends in Thailand and abroad. During the 2015-16 academic year, the students published one newsletter in English that they subsequently translated into Burmese. 

The newsletters have been distributed and read all along the Thai-Burma border, as well as in faraway places like Europe and the United States and the feedback has always been overwhelmingly positive.


WH Newsletter Volume 1 ( 2015-2016) English 

WH Newsletter Volume 1 (2015-2016) Burmese

About us

The academic year 
Every year, WH accepts 24 students (12 male, 12 female) from a number of different locations in Thailand and Burma. We aim for a great level of diversity in our student body. On top of being from different locations the students also represent a number of different ethnicities and grass root organizations. All our students are young professionals from the development and education sector, and the skills they need are reflected in our curriculum. The Wide Horizons concept is based on the idea of experiential learning, which is the foundation foundation of all our courses and activities. Throughout the course, Wide Horizons moreover attempts to develop the critical thinking skills of our students and cultivate the thought processes associated with effective leadership.

Wide Horizons Location

Computer

List of Computer Subject in Wide Horizons 

First Trimester 
Microsoft word 2013
Microsoft excel 2013
Microsoft power point 2013

Second Trimester
Adobe In design CC
Adobe Photoshop CC

Third Trimester 
Video Edition
What is website
How to build the own Blog

Community Development Subject

"Monitoring & Evaluation" Or "M&E"

The term "Monitoring & Evaluation" or "M&E" are so commonly used together, that practitioners often mistake these two as the same process in the project cycle. In fact, "monitoring" and "evaluation" are very different processes!

So, WHAT IS MONITORING? To best way to understand the difference is to experience it.

Students were divided into 2 groups. The 1st group was the 'project do-er' and the 2nd group was the 'monitoring team'.

Their job? Project do-ers need to execute a set of given activities. This included folding a T-shirt in under 2 seconds by following an instructional video on Youtube, and flying a paper airplane from the girl's dorm to across the field.

The monitoring team needs to check if the activities were completed according to plan. This includes checking whether the tasks were completed on time and achieved the desired quality or performance. The monitoring team also needs to note down problems encountered during the activities and corrective actions that need to be taken to ensure problems do not go out of control.

By the end of the activity, the monitoring team reported their findings. Some project do-ers managed to complete all tasks within the given time frame and delivered the desired quality while some couldn't. They also suggested corrective actions to be performed in order to ensure the activities are completed.

Through this exercise, students learned that MONITORING is a process of checking the progress and quality of a project to ensure the expected activities, methods, schedule & finances are happening or managed as planned.

Monitoring is CONSTANT to ensure DAY-TO-DAY activities are carried out smoothly.

English

Weekly English subject in Wide Horizons 

In this week, we had done different reading books which were really interested for all of us. In order to share our different books to each group, we set up our classroom as a theatre by performing role play activities. We felt very impressed for this activities as they could have hooked us to be curious on their books. 
As the results of this activity, we could build self-confidence on speaking and which was provide grade for our reading, speaking exam. Then, we began to learn how to create the professional resume and cover letter for our future work placement.

On Tuesday, Wide Horizons students had a training, "conflict" by Anne. It means fighting, against something between two people. She introduced the topics of the trainings by "forth and backward" game. Meanwhile she asked students several questions people to perceive different experiences of life.

In classroom, individually we had to distribute our challenges, listening, judges, and solutions in order to express our best perspectives. She further clarified to behave as active listeners and having personal space between two people during communicating or behaving. Finally, students got comprehension to be active listeners and keep personal space.

Persuasion Skills

Persuasion Skills 

Last week was a wonderful week. We have learned persuasion skills from English class.

It is really important to know how to persuade other people because it is very useful when we write proposal to donors or making other people to accept our ideas.

Persuasion means we want to change other people view when we give message to them. There are 3 things we must use to persuade. Those are logic, credibility and emotion.

We also learned about concession and refutation. Concession is something you do to end an argument or make something less difficult. Refutation is to attempt to prove the other person's argument is wrong, especially trying to prove the concession is wrong.

To practice those skills, we had debate about "Should students have boyfriend or girlfriend in WH?" Some students said, "We should not." Some other students said, "It is true we should not have boyfriend or girlfriend. However, we can not stop our heart and love."

Moreover, we edited our newsletter and prepare to create and send to thousand people such as choosing titles, translating and outlining layout the design for newsletter.

We will continue to practice concession and refutation.