On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <[email protected]> wrote: > Often I think that institutions like a Science Museum just need just a > couple of laptops running Sugar. With 30 they tend to be boxed and only get > handed out when it is 'safe' to do so. With just one they miss out on the > collaboration feature (akin to handing out a mobile phone and just inviting > them to play with the address book function), With at least two, things can > start to cook ..
The management of The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose agreed with my suggestion of a roomful of XOs. I see no difficulty securing them to work surfaces. One of the experiment developers at the Exploratorium agreed with my idea of incorporating XOs into exhibits. So we'll find out. > Imagine a public foyer with a ring of six OLPC computes or Sugar enabled > NetBooks that kids can click and play with, glued or secured to a round > oard .. painted out with a world map or UN logo, .. and perhaps a central > solar charger / crank charger. Some laminated cards with background info and > some basic "Try this" Sugar instructions, perhaps also a face and profile > for each laptop that gives a case study or background to a current OLPC > owner in different 'third world countries'. Also good ideas. > Just a thought but it could be used to inspire other science museums to give > the idea a try. I would love to chat this over with the local science > museum (Joel / Bill / Tony?). A couple of years ago I volunteered to help > with the education resource activities on for CSIRAC, the last > first-generation computer. > http://museumvictoria.com.au/CSIRAC/ I'll help with any such project. > Regards Roland > > 2008/12/16 Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> Earth Treasury is starting a project to create digital textbooks and >> >> teacher training materials. >> > >> > Ed, can you please include a URL when you make statements like this? >> >> It was announced on this mailing list. As it happens, you can now look >> at Creating textbooks in the SL Wiki. Sugar Labs, Alan Kay's >> Viewpoints Research, The Doug Engelbart Institute at SRI, FLOSS >> Manuals, Creative Commons, and OLE have expressed strong interest. >> >> >> Currently I am without an XO, >> > >> > Only temporary, I hope. How did this happen? >> >> The B2 is temporarily in pieces, and a B4 was stolen along with my >> regular laptop. >> >> >> The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like in principle to >> >> be a test site, >> > >> > Now this would be fantastic. >> >> They are committed in principle, as I said. That came about during the >> Program for the Future conference last week, when Peter Friess >> complained during a presentation that Apple won't let The Tech have >> prototype iPhones and such like to display. Since OLPC and Google >> handed out prototypes fairly widely during development, I assured him >> that we could make a deal. We are arranging to meet for substantive >> discussions. The Exploratorium and Zeum in San Francisco have >> expressed some interest, also. I would love to see an XO being a >> digital oscilloscope or a microscope at the Exploratorium. >> >> I would like it even better if someone were willing to buy each >> institution 30 or more XOs, so that they could bring in whole classes >> from schools for one-to-one computing. Say, 100 from GiveMany for SF, >> for the Exploratorium, the Zeum, and the CA Academy of Sciences; and >> 100 for Silicon Valley, for The Tech, The Children's Discovery Museum, >> and...I don't know. I'm sure we'll find a place. Well, d'oh! The Computer History Museum. >> Similarly, I would like to do the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, >> the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the Smithsonian, and so >> on and on. >> >> > SJ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >> And Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College > http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au > > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change > the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
