On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net>wrote:
> Hi, > > I have decided to return to Rwanda (I already had the return side of my > ticket paid). A group in Stuttgart has provided 100 XO-1.5s to the St. > Jacob's school in Kigali. As a private school, they are not as directly > bound to Mineduc. > > I was pleased to see a strong interest in the educational issues you > mention here - the first time at a Sugar/OLPC meeting. The immediate focus > is on establishing an online repository for the lesson plans and content > bundles that have already been created. > > I spend three weeks in Haiti with Adam Holt, Nick Doiron and George Hunt > at École Shalom. We tried the schoolserver and Learn activity as ways to > deliver lessons requested by the teachers. While the results were > encouraging, they proved we are a long way from a production capability to > deliver courseware. > > Christoph Derndorfer is coordinating the effort and I'll see that you are > included in the emails. > > Tony > > Tony, That is excellent news, especially for the children at St. Jacob's! Please pass along regards to Pedro Cuéllar and Jimmy Intwala at OLPC Rwanda if/when you see them and thank them for the work they have accomplished so far on Kinyarwanda L10n and remind them there is always more to do. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/rw/ cjl
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