Hey Mel,
could you please provide contact Info for Jonathan Austin?
I haven't found him on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Birmingham
and I am allways interested in getting in touch with people doing local (olpc)
stuff in BHM. The building local communities thing interests me particularly
since I encountered such little interest on the side of the BHM Board of
Education.
I wish I could have attended the bootcamp. Pippy (and TurtleArt!) gives me
wonderfull fluctuating goosebumpy sensations.
Stefan
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:19:40 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: [Grassroots-l] Grassroots bootcamp, Day 2
>
> The grassroots bootcamp continued today with:
>
> * A discussion led by Jonathan Austin (from the upcoming Birmingham,
> Alabama deployment) on training volunteers, getting funding, and
> building local communities. This led into side discussions on grassroots
> finances and more...
>
> * Chris Ball gave us all a crash course on Pippy, a learn-by-example
> programming Activity, and how it can be used to develop Activities and
> scripts for the XO. Again, the topic was so compelling that a cluster
> could be found huddled in the back corner talking about
> internationalization of Pippy, even after plates of food had been placed
> less than 10 feet away.
>
> Special guests included Pam Cooney from World Computer Exchange and
> Cynthia Solomon from the OLPC Learning Team, one of the co-creators of
> Logo. Cynthia and Francesca Slade also led a roleplay during the
> afternoon where the rest of us pretended to be 8-year-olds learning
> Scratch (actually learning Scratch in the process). I don't know about
> the rest of the "students," but Chris Carrick, Nikki Lee, and I ended up
> engrossed in exploring forensic ballistics* with a Scratch activity that
> Chris had created to go alongside...
>
> All this and more (including - yes, you guessed it, transcripts!) are at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Grassroots_bootcamp/Results#Tuesday
>
> All errors/emissions/typos in these notes are almost certainly my fault.
> Please correct/clarify if you see an occasion to improve any of these notes.
>
> Cheers!
>
> -Mel Chua
>
> *we were strange 8-year-olds, yes.
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