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1. ICT In-service Training & EDUCARE - Cameroon
2. Kopila Valley School Computer Lab - Surkhet, Nepal & Tiburon,
California
3. Cleveland School Intersession - Santa Barbara, California
4. Village Ventures - Mali & Malaga, Spain
5. OLPC Bhagmalpur - Haryana, India
6. FAMLI/Audubon MS Project Update - Los Angeles, California
7. Canada Reading Literacy
8. Robogames - NYC, New York
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1. ICT In-service Training & EDUCARE - Cameroon
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78644
www.techcefacos.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 20 XOs over 9 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
This training programme and its supportive initiatives descript as
‘EDUCARE’ is aim at enhancing human resource development and
capacity building; as well as the exploitation of best ICT
Resource base tools and approach to promote the teaching/learning
of ICT in the Basic Education sector Cameroon.
So, this training programme is to supportive EDUCARE initiative
like e-kids computing project is an holistic ICT approach for
enabling children between the ages of 4 and 14 to become
digitally inclusive in their learning, creative and social
interaction process as the only great channel of this
'information age' leading them to a brighter future-Despite the
many educational, psychological, positive or negative objective(s),
of children’s use of computer TechCeFaCos NGO, answers the question
of what exactly children will do with it… Be good users of computer
systems; learn how to creatively interact with the machine as an
information tool etc with core objectives base on the following:
To meet TechCeFaCos' mission of promoting creativity and
technological empowerment, that coincides with recent government
educational reforms such as the introduction of 'National Cultural'
and 'ICT Studies' into the national syllabuses for English speaking
primary schools in Cameroon...
2. Kopila Valley School Computer Lab - Surkhet, Nepal & Tiburon, California
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78789
http://blinknow.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
We are father and son; giving back to the third world at an early age
can have a long term positive effect. We will prepare the eBay
computers together, and sowill also be able to teach the local
Nepalese teachers how to use them.
Once in Nepal, we will be visiting an elementary and middle school in a
remote district with 250 students (Kopila Valley School). We will
instruct
the local teachers (who don’t have experience with computers) on how
to use
the OLPCs so that they can teach their students and develop learning
projects around the computers.
If this is successful, we plan to purchase additional OLPCs and either
transport them ourselves, have them transported, or ship them to the
school,
to increase the school’s inventory.
We assume that a medium-term build-out will be approximately 25
computers
for this school. With further interest from other donors, there is the
potential for this to expand to one laptop for each student.
There may be opportunities to broaden the project to other area schools,
which will lever the knowledge we gain with the implementation at Kopila
Valley School.
3. Cleveland School Intersession - Santa Barbara, California
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78790
http://phillandfriedolpc.wordpress.com
http://olpcMAP.net?id=874003
http://mcsclasses.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5-30 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Introduce laptops to Hispanic students with limited access to computers.
Test the use of laptop activities effect on California standards
test scores.
Cleveland is on a year round schedule. Will research web sites with
interactive games and activities that reinforce specific standards.
Will write a curriculum and basic use guide. Will demo XO computer to
a classroom teacher. Teacher will introduce the use of the XO during
the summer session starting in July, 2011. I will support the teacher
in implementing the program. We will evaluate score before and after
using the laptops for 1 year.
4. Village Ventures - Mali & Malaga, Spain
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78963
http://villageventures.blogspot.com
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
We need every school in our area to have sufficient computers so that
each student can have the opportunity to learn IT skills and world
knowledge as well as having the opportunity to understand internet and
link into other international schools.We have other schools in Spain
and
England waiting for our schools in Mali to be able to communicate with
one another in French and via this medium set up a link to have a
international school exchange program.This way our African children can
gain more skills and understanding of different cultures and visa versa.
Already each of our school have one laptop as we have no
electricity, to
have desktop computers. As our schools develop skills and pay for
internet connection we are buying solar panels so that the laptops can
be continually charged, obviously this is not ideal, hence the reason
for contacting or connecting with your organization.
5. OLPC Bhagmalpur - Haryana, India
http://olpcmap.net/?id=799001
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India/Bhagmalpur
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79156
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 30 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives: (excerpts)
This project aims to use an alternative distribution model of granting
the XO to a child in each household in the village. The child must be
approx 5 to 14 years of age. This model is similar to the Grameen Bank
model, where a cell phone is given to the woman of the house, who then
leases the services out as part of a microfinance scheme. In our
project, the XO will be “wielded” by the youngest child of school
going age (highest expected ROI on learning) but there is no
microfinance scheme attached. This approach has raised some interest
in key OLPCers, such as Barbara Barry and Mary Lou Jepsen (it was Mary
Lou’s observation at OLPC SF Community Summit, that this model shares
much in common with Grameen’s model).
We (Verma family) are financing all incidental expenses, including
power, Internet access, school server, book server, and any training
that may be needed by providing space at our home in Bhagmalpur. One
of the rooms in the front of the house will be used as a learning
space of sorts to support charging, trouble shooting and a quiet place
away from other environs so that the children can sit alone or in
groups and explore.
1. Collect all XOs in Bhagmalpur
2. Install School Server (June 2011)
3. Disburse XOs (June 2011)
4. Gather feedback (August 2011). This data will be gathered based
on the monitoring and evaluation model of http://olpcjamaica.org.jm
5. Hindi Wikipedia (August 2011)
6. Voice over IP (January 2012)
6. FAMLI/Audubon MS Project Update - Los Angeles, California
http://famliolpcsocalaudubonms.wordpress.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79244
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5 Broken XOs for 14 months
Project Objectives:
Students and volunteers will use the repair guide on the olpc wiki to
learn to make simple repairs on the XO computers. See blog:
http://famliolpcsocalaudubonms.wordpress.com
7. Canada Reading Literacy
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XO-1 for undetermind months
Project Objectives:
Details to follow from Walter Bender.
8. Robogames - NYC, New York
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XO-1s for undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Details to follow from Walter Bender.
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