Thanks Mike Lee, Mel Chua and Support Gangsters all who pulled this together into a major event: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Class_Acts The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced. This idea arose from our Support Gang (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang) volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there. The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like http://OLPClearningclub.org, http://hacDC.org and others: Sunday Sept 6: Dinner to meet fellow writers Monday Sept 7: Labor Day (no holiday for us!) ... Friday Sept 11: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!) Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ laptop.org (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots) explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :) Possible Book Title: (very tentative) 20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang Needs: ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib Graphics designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever) Experienced tech writers, copy-editors Photographs! Likely Attendees: Mel CHUA Luke FARAONE (invited) David FARNING (invited) Adam HOLT SJ KLEIN Mike LEE Yamandu PLOSKONKA Bryan STUART Sameer VERMA Seth WOODWORTH (invited) Remote Attendees: Caryl BIGENHO Sandy CULVER (invited) Christoph DERNDORFER Daniel DRAKE (invited) Pablo FLORES (invited) Daytime/workroom venues currently under consideration: http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us http://www.gallaudet.edu Accommodations -- until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend: http://hostels.com http://airbnb.com http://melchua.com Please Join Our Online Venues Today! support-g...@laptop.org (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_Gang) grassro...@laptop.org (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots) http://forum.laptop.org/chat (#olpc-help and #sugar) http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs ?? “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint Exupery |
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