Hello All, Just wanted to pass along this email and video to everyone to show others like ourselves our hard at work trying to highlight and increase the effectiveness of Sugar and the XO. Video is about 35min in length-well done and inspires like minded work to be done. Best, John Tierney >Subject: TTU's work with XO >Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:08 -0400 >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>Dear John, >I’ve mentioned to you that Rich Rice at Texas Tech University has been using >XO laptops for outreach >with k-12 students, and recently, he and his graduate >students completed a project with the Science >Spectrum in Lubbock, TX. >Science Spectrum is the local science museum. As you can see from the >>following movie, they developed some innovative activities and documented >their work with children who >stopped by the Science Spectrum. They’ve had >quite a bit of success using the drawing and >chat .software, among others. http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv >Rich is also a member of the Computers and Writing community and is interested >in exploring other >ways that C&W can do outreach with k-12 schools using the >XO and the Sugar platform. I’ve copied him >on this message, so we can >continue to talk about options for immediate and long-term projects like >>working with the National Writing Project. >Tammy -- >Tammy S. Conard-Salvo >Associate Director, Writing Lab >Purdue University
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