Hi Bryan, Thanks for the comments. Your blog is awesome! Its posting faster than I can keep up with but its great to see your range of feedback from Pedagogy to Network to Power!
Not sure about the feed to planet laptop but will consider it time permitting (AKA when someone figures out how to do it in 15 mintes :-). I know there is a dearth of Nepali content on the Internet. If we come up with a blog posting tool for kids, I hope you will consider using it in Nepal. That will quickly create a whole new world of Nepali Internet content! When I get close to a design that we can implement in Uruguay I'll circle back and see if it meets your requirements too. When you get the sunrise phase rolled out, you may want to think about your next top priority. I think you have the server mostly under control and lots of good eToys content coming in. Beyond that, let us know what the kids, teachers and admins want to do. Let it bubble up from users in their own language. Watch what they do, figure out what they want to do and why it is hard to accomplish. Then pick a high level challenge (e.g. managing servers or training the teachers or tracking educational results or sharing content, etc.). Maybe one challenge for each class of users? Don't seed them with any technical constraints or language. Once you detect some themes you can pose a challenge to them and to us and we will investigate ways to address it. That's my 2 cents on requirements gathering. HTHs. There will be too much feedback coming in to read it all so we'll count on you to aggregate and collect the main ideas. You only get one chance to make a first impression so gather the feedback now and think about how you will turn that in to requirements later. If I can get the blog tool work nailed in the next two months, I'll have time to pick up a new challenge. Pick the right concern for your kids and we'll go from there. The sky is the limit and you are closer to the sky than anyone else in the world :-) Thanks, Greg S -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greg Smith (gregmsmi); olpc-open Subject: RE: [Grassroots-l] Update on XOs in Urugua Great write-up Greg, keep 'em coming. This communication is vital to our common success. is there a way we could feed a translated version of the Proyecto Ceibal blog into the planet.laptop.org site? Perhaps using Babelfish? http://babelfish.altavista.com/ The points made by the Uruguay team match our experiences from Nepal's teacher training program http://blog.olenepal.org keep up the good work -- Bryan W. Berry Systems Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
