Turning A New Page!

February 23,2011, at around 1pm. Sitting in a computer lab with goosebumps all over me... One might ask what's so special about a computer lab that I had goosebumps?? No, the lab was very regular type,nothing extraordinary...But the moment became special when right at 1pm, Nasreen ma'am came to the screen of  that computer lab because it's the orientation program of my First Online Course!!! We were about 13 students eagerly waiting for that moment to come.

Our course is "Women in Technology". Today is the last day of our completion of Unit-2. Can't imagine how these days have flown and I am actually doing my assignment of an Online course!!! The feeling is really amazing. Feeling that I was holding a bow which had no color in it, but after today five bright colors will be there on my bow...as I had to complete five segments of  work for my Unit-2 within toady. And when my whole course will be completed I hope that I will be able to hold the most bright colored rainbow of the universe.

I learned a lot about the prevailing gender-gap in the field of technology and other sectors. The reading assignments were packed with vibrant resources. The Gender-Gap Index was very enlightening, the articles by Hafkin &Taggart, Smith & Thompson and lastly the video by Saadia Zahidi were extremely helpful to look deeper into some of the very common topic of our daily life. Many questions arose during my reading of these articles and to seek the answers I had to look in some other websites...and when I got all the answers, the feelings of  satisfaction is worth mentioning.

At many points I feel a bondage with all the women of the world who are still striving for diminishing the gender inequity. One of the interesting thing is that we have a number of male students in this course who are very willingly supporting the voice of women in IT, in wage system, in political platform as well as in social platform.

Enjoying the thrilling discussions among the students not only from diverse background but also from different countries of the world. I count myself  to be very lucky to attain a course like this and hope that within five years or so most of the female students of the developing countries like ours get the chance to experience such a wonderful technological endowment like Online courses.