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AGENDA:
* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
* Fast Review of the 2 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Deploy Laptops to Mafi Dove, Ghana in early January 2010 - Ghana &
Massachusetts, USA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49565
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~moss/ghana/ [NEEDS A LINK FROM
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 4 XOs over 2-4 months
Project Objectives:
1) Make computers available to middle school,
and eventually primary school, students in Mafi Dove, Ghana. Develop
sustainable teacher training and support plan. Assist in integrating
computers into the school’s education plan. Initial deployment would
outfit a “lab” with around 10 laptops and provide laptops to relevant
teachers, with a few backup units in case of failure. Depending on your
recommendation, we could also outfit a classroom in addition to the
“lab”; this would require an additional 20 units.
2) Determine next
steps when we visit, namely how and when to expand to all students in
Mafi Dove (would involve perhaps 200 units)? How to provide training and
tech support on an ongoing basis? What are the indigenous resources in
Ghana? What can we do versus what needs to be done by OLPC or other
agencies? How and when should we provide Internet access (this first
visit will not attempt that)?
3) Get a sense of how this could
eventually expand to more villages in the area, and involve students
from UMass as an ongoing service-learning course.
Note: We 5 are leaders of a small Episcopal church in Ashfield, MA
(except Nell, who is Susan’s daughter and our person very experienced
with the village and area). This is not an evangelism project, but
strictly mission/service to the children and families of this rural
village
2. SocialCalc, Newspaper activity, Deducto, Video Chat Activity, Itunes
for e-books - New Delhi, India
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49596
http://seeta.in/j/archives.html
http://blog.laptop.org
[SPECIFIC SITE(S) NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 3 XO-1.5'ss over 6.5 months
Project Objectives:
1. SocialCalc, the community spreadsheet -
http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html and
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084
2. Newspaper activity for the future journalists - We are undertaking
this
project with OLPC Corps Indiana University, who did a pilot this
summer in
South Africa (http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/37.html), and are
helping us gather ideas and scenarios on the pedagogical front at this
juncture.
3. Deducto, activity to improve deducing logic skills -
http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/deducto.html and
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4220
4. Color Deducto, activity to teach color schemes, systems and patterns
through pattern recognition -
http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/color-deducto.html and
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4221
5. Video Chat Activity - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat (Video Chat
does not work on Sugar 0.84. I have hired 2 developers, who would be
working
on this project starting next week).
6. Itunes for e-books - We are working on this project with Kovid Goyal -
http://www.seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=ITunes_for_EBooks
http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar
http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Deducto
http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Color_Deducto
http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=ITunes_for_EBooks
http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/37.html
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