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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">@Noah,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Maybe we can do both. Teach the principles as well as offer exposure to one or several of the vendor technologies (whichever that maybe). I always find such an approach much more enriching and complimentary in my classes.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Teaching 'principles' without offering some practical vendor sessions is like teaching Wordprocessing - without using MS-Word/OpenOffice/etc because you are trying too hard to be vendor-agnostic ;-)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In short, I do appreciate the need to teach principles but also appreciate the need to use vendor specific examples/labs to drive the point home. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">walu.</div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 07:03:16 PM GMT+3, Noah via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303"><div><div><div>The intermittent ip networks and grid-power aside.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Am curious to know why in this day and time and day, we are still focusing on vendor specific trainings.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>During earlier 2000's we focused so much on the Cisco's, then somehow the Junipers and today we are seeing the <span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Huawei syntax.</span></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Shouldn't we be focusing in todays Africa on teaching standard protocols even at a fundamental level and cocktail of vendors sythax rather than continually pushing some specific vendors technology which indirectly markets their kit as defacto to those we keep imbibing the skills too.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Just my thoughts....</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Noah</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_quote"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303yqt6159315715" id="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303yqt09645"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 11:28 Kelvin Kariuki via kictanet, <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">This is very true Barrack, <div>I have been teaching a live online class on a Huawei Certification in the past week</div><div>using Zoom and some of my students, who are on different parts of the country, </div><div>have really had issues keeping up because of poor internet connections and </div><div>regular disconnections. Thank God Zoom has a feature to record the classes </div><div>but for sure this is something that we need to look into. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>PS: All my students are using Safaricom as Huawei Kenya offered them with </div><div>credit cards to buy internet bundles in order to be able to learn online. The training</div><div>I'm doing is Huawei Certified ICT Associate (Routing & Switching)</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_quote"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:14 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Barrack</div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;">You got that right. Both Safaricom and Zuku have been intermittent over the past few days. Let's not even start with Kenya Power...</div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;">Regards</div><div style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><br clear="none"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span>T<font size="2" style="background-color: inherit;">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br clear="none"></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;">
</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span>LinkedIn: <a shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br clear="none"></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black;"><br clear="none"></span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span><br clear="none"><font size="1" style="background-color: inherit;">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"></span>
<span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_quote"><div class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:07 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp56d35353yiv4495509303gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Listers,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>It seems the quality of our Infrastructure is taking a hit as more people are working from home. Talking to friends from different corners of the countries across different Networks, there seems to be a challenge. I hope the Communications Authority is paying attention. The Internet and Infrastructure service providers should not just focus on free Internet and double speeds, quality of the connection is critical.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Best <br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Barrack O. Otieno<br clear="none">+254721325277<br clear="none">+254733206359<br clear="none">Skype: barrack.otieno<br clear="none">PGP ID: 0x2611D86A<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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