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* Fast Review of the 7 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals.
Plz join us advocating for & reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. OLPC Training, Math and Secondary Students, Peace Corps Masters
Intl - Calif State Univ Northridge
2. OLPC Tanzania Rural Cancer Prevention Initiative - Dallas, TX
3. GPS navigator for bicycle (with modified charger for bicycle) -
Beijing, China
4. Marysville Rotary Literacy XO Repair Facility - Guatemala &
Marysville, WA
5. SWAG for Upcoming LUG Meeting - Los Angeles, CA
6. Turning Slumdogs into Millionaires/Vocational Skills Transfer -
Kolkata, India
7. OLPC Paktika, with Paiwastoon - Afghanistan
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1. OLPC Training, Math and Secondary Students - Peace Corps Masters
Intl, Calif State Univ Northridge
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81518
http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth014/peacecorps/PCMI_10_2010.html
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10 XOs over 36 months
Project Objectives:
California State University, Northridge (CSUN) requests 10 OLPC
computers for instruction of Math and Secondary Education CSUN Peace
Corps Master's International students. CSUN students will learn to use
existing educational software and develop new projects appropriate for
middle and high school level students. We will also teach CSUN
students use to some tools developed by CSUN faculty for Mathematics.
2. OLPC Tanzania Rural Cancer Prevention Initiative - Dallas, TX
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81646
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 4 XOs and 12 months
Project Objectives:
The Healthnovations International-UT Dallas Chapter aims to utilize
the OLPC laptops in order to establish a thorough curriculum to promote
cancer awareness to the Tanzanian community. The goal of the project is
to empower pediatric cancer victims in the region to access information
about the causes and consequences of the disease and to assist their
communities in combating pediatric cancer with access to primary
healthcare, education, counseling, emotional support, and medical care.
3. GPS navigator for bicycle (with modified charger for bicycle) -
Beijing, China
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81836
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XOs over 9 months
Project Objectives:
1. Since I will be a volunteer to teach some students in Qinghai
Province(a very poor province of china) late July, if I can get one
before
July, I can take it to these children to find out how favor do them
like this , and what do they want and so on. 2. Help with some translate
projects although my english is also very poor... 3. Since the olpc
1.75 works only 2W, so we can use the hand-shake charger to charge
it for
all the use.
But it will do us a favor if we can charge the battery while
riding bicycles! 4. With a usb gps receiver connected to our olpc
laptop , and bind it to the bicycle , we can use it as a good navigator.
We can develop a program using google map api, providing some
history and culture information arround where you are, and you can
also select anywhere to learn something about the place you select. I
think I can develop it using Qt.
4. Marysville Rotary Literacy XO Repair Facility - Guatemala &
Marysville, WA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82243
http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?cid=275
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10-15 brickes XOs over undetermined months
Project Objectives:
This is a project that is being lead and developed by High School
students with supervision from adult school staff and with the support
of outside community computer professionals. Students will learn
technology troubleshooting skills, which will be used during the
project. Skills include but are not limited to: using a multi-meter,
oscilloscope, audio equipment and soldering equipment. Also students
will create a working business model on the proper manner of receiving,
processing, repairing, packaging and shipping of the XO systems.
5. SWAG for Upcoming LUG Meeting - Los Angeles, CA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82585
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests outreach materials
Project Objectives:
Requests OLPC outreach materials for Linus User Group meeting(s).
6. Turning Slumdogs into Millionaires/Vocational Skills Transfer -
Kolkata, India
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82735
http://impactforpeace.blogspot.com
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 26 XOs over 1.5 months
Project Objectives:
To uplift the living standard of underprivileged families, by providing
vocational trainings, especially computer skillsto enhance their
chance of
upward social mobility.
To infuse in the community the notion that education is an important
way for
them to get rid of poverty.
7. OLPC Paktika, with Paiwastoon - Afghanistan
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82810
http://www.paiwastoon.af
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 10-12 laptops for 3+ months
Project Objectives:
Ensure that teachers in Paktika where 450 XO 1.5s will be delivered are
comfortable and confident before children's laptops arrive. Create and
trial new interactive teacher training materials (developed with EXE see
www.paiwastoon.af/eldep) that will help standardize teacher training and
ensure all teachers have completed essential teacher training modules
(avoid issues where trainers short change training time).
Afghanistan's children suffer from critically short classroom
instruction time, receiving roughly 55% of class time in comparison to
UNESCO’s average of countries like Argentina, Basil, India, Jamaica,
Jordan, Malaysia, Peru, Russian Federation, Tunisia or Uruguay. Due
mostly to a lack of resources in terms of both material and human
capital, Afghan schools are often teaching between 2-3 shifts a day with
the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s Ministry of
Education delivering approximately 35 minutes classroom time per subject
and 5 subjects per grade.
Also, Afghanistan’s harsh winters, mountainous geography and severe lack
of infrastructure imposes yet another significant limitation on the
Afghan school year.
PAIWASTOON found that the minority of homework is marked by the
teachers; while that being marked is done hastily without provision of
in-depth feedback. Hence, OLPC's interactive book is an improvement to
offering little or no feedback as is currently practiced. Interactive
digital learning applications also can support children's problem
solving and logic abilities to find their own mistakes. In terms of
gender implications, the OLPC offers equal opportunity to both girls
and boys; whereas boys in some circumstances are allowed greater
freedom leave the home seeking help and feedback, girls often don't
have this ability. A digital device with learning content can turn
any space into a virtual classroom. More so, rote learning is
dominant throughout Afghanistan and by overcoming feedback challenges,
time can be found to use constructivist tools such as the already
localized turtle, etoys and scratch.
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