>Thanks for the comments. Your blog is awesome! Thanks! You will see a lot more blog posts from our excellent teacher trainers Kamana and Bipul. They are very much steeped in constructivist theory from Piaget and Vygotsky. I also hope to get one of the teachers at the pilot school blogging.
I think the blogging tool would be fantastic. It's not on the top of my list but it would be very useful. You are right about not making too many assumptions about what the kids and teachers need. Blogging may end up being a higher need - ***ESPECIALLY*** if you make it easy to upload pictures. Here are my top requirements based on 4 days of teacher training. They may change when we start the actual pilot on April 13th 1. Need graphical way to add and remove activities, something like Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu 2. Need graphical way to change nickname and Jabber server. Those are two local values that I expect to change most frequently Less urgent: 1. We need awesome English games that are competitive. 2. we need to make it easier to archive and share pictures. We had trouble sharing pictures during the teacher training. Teachers Rajan Chand and Neema Lama asked for better English games again and again http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/212 Learning good English grammar is critical to writing an intelligible e-mail, chat conversation, etc. It's also usually pretty boring to learn. We need a game that is competitive and constructivist that nails down basic grammar. Neema suggested a "Cliffhanger" style game where you have to spell words correctly or fix a broken sentence to make it up a mountain. If we could somehow make it multi-player across the mesh that would be awesome. Keep up the great work Greg and talk to on the Support call on Saturday! _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
