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* Fast Review of the 7 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. IT in Education - Benin
2. Village Education Project - Ecuador / Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
3. Ecole Mixte and Friends - Gonaive, Haiti
4. Helping with OS Releases/Customisation - Carnegie Mellon Univ,
Pennsylvania
5. Think Big Nepal - Educating Children Rescued from Slavery
6. Game based applications to enhance literacy in Rural Kenya
7. Children Key of Life Project - Dem Republic of Congo/DRC, Zaire
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1. IT in Education - Benin
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77626
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XOs over 10 months
Project Objectives:
The project objective is to help children and the public learn to
use technology
and find information using computers and the Internet.
We provide services such as:
- Literacy courses
- Basic Computer Usage
- Word Processing
- Using Email
- Using the Internet
- Using Computers and the Internet to search for jobs / write résumés
- Specialized Internet search classes on specific topic (such as health
care, agriculture, etc...)
2. Village Education Project - Ecuador / Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77660
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10-20 XOs over 3 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
The new computer curriculum aims to give the children basic computing
literacy, including the skills they will need in high school (for
example, touch typing, word processing, email and Internet research
techniques) to place them on a more level playing field with their more
privileged classmates and to ensure that they have a solid foundation to
build on in their high school classes. OLPC’s XO laptops are especially
good for this purpose due to their portability, ease of charging, and
simple interface. More specifically, since our summer program ends with
a final exam, we aim to have at least 90 percent of our students pass
the exam on the computer curriculum. We are starting literally at the
beginning with these kids - most have never used a mouse - so the
outcomes will be especially visible not only in hard outcomes like their
test scores, but also in soft outcomes like quality of school projects,
and general readiness for school.
3. Ecole Mixte and Friends - Gonaive, Haiti
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77921
http://friendsacademy1810.org
http://sbsgrade3kids.blogspot.com
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5-9 XOs over 36 months
Project Objectives:
Friends Academy is seeking to establish a long-term partnership with
Ecole Mixte Choubert Alexis in Gonaives, Haiti, an accredited school
that was devastated in the 2010 earthquake. The school would be one of
several schools in our network. Our objective is to collaborate with
students around the world on the kinds of projects that require
teamwork,
complex communication, creativity, technical competence, and other 21st
century skills. These projects can take many forms. Imagine students at
one school creating storyboards, students at another school designing
the artwork, students at a third school composing the music, a forth
class producing the final video. This kind of project and those like it
differ from the usual correspondences and pen pal exchanges that
teachers
initiate with their international partners. We will also have these
initial exchanges, but expect more out of these partnerships in the
long-term. The projects we propose provide students with genuine
learning experiences. They also build friendships, cement relationships,
and bridge cultures. They require intense and sustained collaboration.
Apps like[ http://translate.google.com/ ] translate.google.com can help
with the language barrier. Email, wikis, and blogs allow us to network,
share and collaborate. These projects allow children to share their
stories, experiences, culture, values, ideas, and dreams. We believe
projects like these can be powerful and transformative. Students can
share, learn, and grow together. Technically, we hope they can build
on their skills. These projects tie in to our school's vision "to
develop students who have strong global literacy" and to one of our
technology goals "global communication and global awareness."
Teachers at the other schools will carve out their own goals. For one
teacher, these collaborations might be an avenue to teach English, for
others, it might be a way to teach the writing process, art, music,
or theater.
4. Helping with OS Releases/Customisation - Carnegie Mellon Univ,
Pennsylvania
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78001
http://dachte.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XO-1 and 1 XO-1.5 over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
[In order to] help with OS packaging/customisation/builds. For example,
I would like to help with making smaller images without GNOME by
verifying the dependencies for the sugar components, and I would be
willing to otherwise assist in tracking down bugs in the system releases
and participate in meetings/Bugzilla to this effect. As a systems
programmer/admin, I know Fedora/RHEL/CentOS very well, and I have
experience customising them.
5. Think Big Nepal - Educating Children Rescued from Slavery
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78050
http://www.childrenoftomorrow.org
http://www.nepalorphanshome.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives: (excerpts)
Theobjective of this project is to create a yearlong extracurricular
academic andmentorship program for 10 children—mostly girls—who have
been rescued fromslavery or abandonment in Nepal.Through the use of the
laptops, the program will encompass a wide-rangingcurriculum that will
enhance the children's understanding of themselves and theworld and will
foster cognitive, psychological and emotional development.
The curriculum will be divided into 3 parts; each part will take 4
months to complete:
The first part of the curriculum focuses on geography, peoples of
the world, cultures and religions.
The second part focuses on government, law and human rights.
The third part focuses on health, the environment and basic science.
Create a mentorship program between older and younger children in
order to maximize the program's benefits for years to come.
Enhance student interaction with each other through the use of
technology, fostering an innovative learning experience outside the
classroom.
The children will use the laptops to read given assignments, participate
in exercises, as well as to write their own newspapers and create their
own storybooks. Participants are responsible to teach some of what they
learn to the other children in the orphanage, fostering
communication and
mentorship skills. For this project, Children of Tomorrow is partnering
with Nepal OrphansHome (NOH), a nonprofit organization in Kathmanduthat
operates homes for children who’ve been orphaned, abandoned or
rescued from bonded labor. www.nepalorphanshome.org
6. Game based applications to enhance literacy in Rural Kenya
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78380
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs for undetermined months
Project Objectives:
To empirically measure the impact of low cost technologies use in
enhancing literacy for kids from Bottom of Pyramid in Kenya.
To establish design features that enhance learning for rural kids.
To make a contribution towards digitizing learning in Kenya and the
region
7. Children Key of Life Project - Dem Republic of Congo/DRC, Zaire
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78464
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 20 XOs for 12 undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Although it has been a really long time since the computer was
developed,
the computer has become an object of great importance to day, be it any
workplace and any profession. The uses and applications of computers are
vast and un-ending. Computer literacy has become a pre-requisite while
appearing for almost every odd interview. Since it is a known fact that
today’s children will grow up to become responsible adults of tomorrow,
they must be introduced to the basic technology that currently rules
the world.
According to that reality we have gote that ideas to make this
project in
order to providing this knowledge to our children is like preparing them
for the future.
But According to the successive wars here in our country (DR Congo) many
children does't use these software because of life is more hardful,
parents are not able to pay laptop, it means that the laptops are using
only for the noble and rich families..
That is the reason why our Project will allow those vulnerable children
(all kind of children without eny discrimination )to introducing them to
that new technology so that This will give them an introduction to the
syllabus that he will be taught in further professional courses and to
allow them to get a job...
Our Project is from the Bible "Paulm 30:11 that says, you have turned
my mourning into dancing you have sut off my sacclother and clothed me
with gladness"
Really we need to help our community with this new system of education.
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