Hi DNLE Team, OLPC friends and and Sugar Labs friends,
First of all... Happy New Year to all!
Some of us recently completed a Stanford Venture Lab MOOC course, Designing a
New Learning Environment (DNLE) with lots of fun and a successful project that
we are proud to say placed #4 of over 140 projects in the peer voting process!
If you would like to see the website that is a result of our project, LocalFi,
go to http://www.localfi.org It is still a work in progress, and we would
welcome folks who find the project interesting to join us in further building
the website, filling it with content, deploying our localfi systems, building
teacher training materials, and the like. Just let me know and I can introduce
you to our team and have your name added to our mailing list.
Now that that course is complete, Coursera has a shorter one (5 weeks vs 10)
from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) on E-Learning and Digital Cultures.
It begins on January 28. If you would like more information about this free
open class you can find it at: https://www.coursera.org/course/edc If any of
you would like to join me in this new learning adventure, enroll and let me
know. I don't think there will be any team projects this time, just nice to
have some friends in the class to share ideas with.
Finally, here's a "heads up" reminder that the 11th Annual Southern California
Linux Expo will be held at the Hilton LAX Feb 22-24. We will have a booth area
for OLPC and Sugar Labs (shared area) and I have been approved for at least one
talk. If you would like to present, the regular presentations are closed, but
there may be openings in the Education track and the fun evening event, "speed
geek,"(which they call "UpSCaLE") where you get 5 minutes to talk about 20
slides that are advanced automatically, one every 15 secs. This is a great
place for people with small deployments to do a "show and tell." To learn more
about SCaLE11X check this web site: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x If
you plan to come, we would love to have you help with our booth. In past years
volunteers who help get their registration fees waived. It will probably be the
same this year. Be sure to let me know if you are coming and can give a few
hours (or more, it's fun!) to help out.
Hope to see you all online soon and at SCaLE in February!Caryl
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