Please join us in 30 MIN from now, voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar
community projects over IRC Live Chat, to make the best project
allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here
2PM Boston Time / EST this afternoon:
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Then type at bottom:
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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 11 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. OLPC Pulse Oximeter - Vancouver, Canada / South Africa
2. SEAVURIA: 8 schools near Mombassa, Kenya - Seattle, Washington
3. OLPC Project from Wilderness Expeditions Ltd - Tucson, Mexico,
Tibet/China
4. Improving digital literacy in Bangladesh rural areas - Slovenia
5. OLPC Saint Jacob School, Kigali, Rwanda - Stuttgart, Germany
6. English as a Second Language, My School House, Tegucigalpa - Honduras
7. Calendario Activity - Managua, Nicaragua
8. World Child Project - Tijuana, Mexico
9. Mesa Arizona Repair Shop - for Belize
10. School for the Deaf - Harare, Zimbabwe
11. Golden Hour Project - Bangladesh / Tustin, California
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
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1. OLPC Pulse Oximeter - Vancouver, Canada / South Africa
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73028
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/PulseOximeter
http://phoneoximeter.org/projects/olpc/
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~walterk
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
- Develop low-cost pulse oximetry hardware that can be easily connected
to an XO. The pulse oximeter sensor will be both an educational
tool and a
medical screening device.
- Develop educational software based on the Sugar framework for
diseases,
monitoring and physiology. We aim to increase the health awareness
of school
children in developing countries.
- Provide a health education tool to the OLPC community.
- Encourage children to learn about health with the playful support
of an
XO platform.
- Make a difference in the fight against infectious diseases.
2. SEAVURIA: 8 schools near Mombassa, Kenya - Seattle, Washington
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73159
http://seavuria.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2/11 XOs over 5 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
The SEAVURIA project pairs students from Vuria (Mombasa), Kenya with
Seattle-area students to develop collaborative projects focusing on
*Science and Technology for Sustainable Development*. International
teams of students will investigate an issue of global health
significance, sharing their findings and presenting their projects
at culminating events in their home countries.
In our pilot year, we hope to impact 80 students – half from Seattle and
half from Vuria, and engage them in meaningful learning around topics of
relevance to their lives. To date, 5 Seattle-area schools and 8 Vuria
schools have signed on to participate and be mentored by scientists.
International teams of 8 students will each be mentored by at least one
scientist.
The goal of the SEAVURIA partnership is to construct a sustainable and
creative partnership of global awareness through science education...
The project requires students on both continents to communicate over the
Internet. Seattle students have computers and connectivity but our
Kenyan partners need those tools.
3. OLPC Project from Wilderness Expeditions Ltd - Tucson, Mexico,
Tibet/China
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73649
http://www.CanyonLovers.com
http://www.CanyonsWorldWide.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 5 XOs over 24 months
Project Objectives:
Provide laptops to impoverished Native American/Tarahumara students so that
they may gain skills and education to provide them with better
employment
opportunities. Their parents were the first generation to have any
education
at all, sometimes just through the fifth grade and their daughters
will now
be the first Native Tarahumara to be able to participate in
journalism and
direct reporting about their own tribe.
4. Improving digital literacy in Bangladesh rural areas - Slovenia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73856
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests ? XOs over 14 months
Project Objectives:
§ To motivate children to go school and participate in school activities
§ To train primary school teachers how to use modern technology for
educational purposes.
§ To improve literacy percentage in Bangladesh
§ To educate children how to use modern technology
§ To educate children how to get information through internet
§ To create an areawise network comminuty
§ Enhancing family entertainment through OLPC program and adtional:
One Laptop
Per Family (OLPF) program
§ To prove the importance of having computers in primary schools in
Bangladesh
5. OLPC Saint Jacob School, Kigali, Rwanda - Stuttgart, Germany
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73925
http://www.mcgrwanda.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 100 paid XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Equipment of all pupils of this school of grade 3 and above with XO
laptops.
Integration of the XO-Laptop in the school program as also strongly
supported from the Rwanda Government. Joining the governmental program
for knowledge-empowered children as the main resource of the country.
Increase of learning efficiency of 50 %.
Increase of available schoolbooks by 500% with digitized material.
School success increase of the students by 30%.
Development of a teaching plan for the time the school is out (from
November to February) to provide teachers an income opportunity.
6. English as a Second Language, My School House, Tegucigalpa - Honduras
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74166
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 40 XOs over 11 months
Project Objectives: (excerpt)
1. Enhance comprehension and communication skills in elementary students
(first to sixth grade) enable chat rooms with a specific topic
proposed by
students.
2. Improve reading skills in a interactive basis (avaible to record each
child and load the audio files in the school web page, for futher
review
for student and parents and feedback for teachers).
3. Improve spelling and phonics skills, by requesting in real time
essays relating to the proposed topic and referring studetns to
phonics web
page availables online.
The goal of the project is to motivate students in their learning
process,
approaching them to a real scenario among their own class mates,
with the
possibility of world wide connection, stablishing communication with
other
children in same basis (English as a second language) or even better
with
other kids which English is their mother tongue or official language.
The outcomes measurement will be determined by the frequency of
interaction
in the chat rooms, improvement in pronunciation (either by real time
conversions or by the audio formats), improvement in spelling skills,
grammar and comprehension measured in essays
7. Calendario Activity - Managua, Nicaragua
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74392
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/calendario
http://yadervblog.drupalgardens.com/category/tags/sugar
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4360
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Developing the activity “Calendario”, base on a calendar and agenda
for sugar.
Promote with the activity the organization skills in an educational
context.
Manage and custom an ephemeris database.
Show information about ephemeris daily.
8. World Child Project - Tijuana, Mexico
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74393
http://www.worldchildproject.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 52 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
World Child Projects’s first step in working to break the cycle of
poverty
for children is to leverage a multi-tiered network for orphans, by:
· Locating and connecting the largest family in the world – the
orphanage network - to each other.
· Developing active and influential relationships with local
employers, vocational centers, and secondary schools.
9. Mesa Arizona Repair Shop - for Belize
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74400
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2+ serial adapters over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
We have multiple request to un-brick laptops, we need a
serial cable and instructions. The goal is to learn how
to support OLPC laptops so that we can start a support
group in Latin America
10. School for the Deaf - Harare, Zimbabwe
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74414
HarareSchoolfortheDeafLaptopProject.wordpress.com (forthcoming?)
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 7 XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
Emerald Hill School for the Deaf, caters for 320 plus children
ranging in ages
from 4 to 18+; two-thirds of the pupils are deaf. In addition to
the traditional
sign-language methods, the School is increasingly using lip-reading
and
listening through the use of very powerful hearing aids, to teach
and encourage
children to communicate and speak.
The objective of the project is to introduce children (starting
with the
youngest) to self-learn lip-reading, language development and
communication
skills through the use of the computer; an additional objective is
to encourage
computer literacy among these children who are so disadvantaged.
A successful pilot project in Grade 1 will be used as
proof-of-principle to
propose an expansion plan for equipping additional grades, to
potential
donors/sponsors.
11. Golden Hour Project - Bangladesh / Tustin, California
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74416
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 12-18 months
Project Objectives:
The objective of the Golden Hour Project [Right to Learn Intl] is to
utilize the XO laptops to expand educational opportunities to children
who live in the remote mountainous areas in Bangladesh, known as the
Chittagong Hill Tracts. This isolated area, where poverty and
malnutrition pervade, is inhabited by thirteen indigenous tribes and
whose literacy rates are 28%, lowest in the nation, even for a country
like Bangladesh. The indigenous tribal children live scattered on
mountaintops and only have access to a few schools with severely
limited resources. The Golden Hour Project will make it possible for
these children to access better and more comprehensive primary school
education.
Our goal, in the first phase, is to deploy XOs in Padamu Residential
School for seventy-two indigenous orphans, ranging from grades one to
five. Our long-term objective is to deploy XOs with multi-lingual
curricula at Padamu Residential School and other primary schools in the
region. We plan to leverage our knowledge of the native languages and
expertise in computer programming to develop computer keyboards in the
tribal languages. We believe One Laptop per Child can play a critical
role in helping the Golden Hour Project reach both its short and long
term goals.
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