[IAEP] ANN: Realness Summit 2011 (May 27-30)
Registration for Realness 2011 is open and ready for business!! Hope to see you all in St. John this year! Please let me know if you have any questions. Take care, Beth --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace Foundation Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44 Fax: +1 610 797 3199 Cell: +1 603 661 1273 http://www.waveplace.org Waveplace on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Waveplace/270512992335?ref=ts Twitter: @waveplace http://twitter.com/waveplace -- Forwarded message -- From: Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:32 AM Subject: ANN: Realness Summit 2011 (May 27-30) ... DRAFT To: Beth Santos b...@waveplace.org, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at, Christine Murakami cmurak...@columbusschoolforgirls.org, Mike Dawson m...@paiwastoon.com.af, Benaja Antoine ben...@haitipartners.org, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org Hi everyone, This year's Realness Summit (May 27-30) is officially open for registrations: http://summit.realness.org Realness Summit is a small gathering of like-minded educators who talk laptops and children in the swelter and magic of the raw, real, Caribbean. We will once again be holding the summit at Maho Bay, St John, US Virgin Islands. Each night, attendees will get together and watch the sunset while talking about our experiences from around the world. Presentations will be given each afternoon. Attendees will also get to watch the concurrent mentor workshop and two children's pilots at the local schools. With attendees coming from five continents and the Caribbean, we're excited to have so many different perspectives in one tranquil place. Maho Bay is located in the middle of the Virgin Islands National Park, which covers half of the island of St John. Opened 39 years ago, Maho might well be the world's first eco-resort, with 114 tent-cottages connected by wooden walkways and stairs, surrounded by the natural beauty of St John. Bathrooms are shared between guests, though electricity, grills, balconies, and screens are included in each tent cottage. All three meals are served on property, though there are some wonderful restaurants a short taxi ride away. Maho has one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean, with incredible snorkeling and water sports. For more details, visit http://summit.realness.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Reminder: STEP UP OLPC Fundraiser in DC on Feb 24th
Hi everyone, Just wanted to send a reminder about this big fundraiser that we're having for the computer program I've been helping groom in São Tomé. I just talked to one of our teachers today, who said she is praying that we have success in our fundraiser so that we can keep the program growing. If you are in the DC area or know anyone there, please spread the word as much as you can. We'll be selling t-shirts to support our cause, as well as photography done by the kids themselves. I'll be driving up there from North Carolina to give a presentation and we have a DJ coming to play São Tomean and other underground hip hop music. We're also expecting appearances from the Portuguese Embassy in DC. A wonderful org called VOICES will be holding the fundraiser exclusively for STEP UP OLPC at the Hillyer Art Space just off *Dupont Circle* in Washington DC on*Thursday, February 24th*. Live hip hop music, food and a presentation about STEP UP OLPC will take place *starting at 6pm*. I'm hoping to be there but am no sure yet. As many of you know, STEP UP OLPC has been going great and we couldn't be more proud of the teachers and students in our program. Lately, however, we have been having problems with chargers and need to get some new ones that won't break so easily during power surges. That's one of the reasons why we're having a fundraiser to get better quality materials for our class and to see if we can't grow it even more. *Here's a Facebook link to the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197461426935361* Thanks for all of your continued support! Take care, Beth http://www.facebook.com/stepupolpc --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace Foundation Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44 Fax: +1 610 797 3199 Cell: +1 603 661 1273 http://www.facebook.com/stepupolpchttp://www.waveplace.org Waveplace on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Waveplace/270512992335?ref=ts Twitter: @waveplace http://twitter.com/waveplace ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] One-to-one research
Hi all, looking for any research/documentation directly addressing the efficacy of one-to-one laptop programs and Papert-like instruction. Any help would be great. Thanks much! Beth --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace Foundation Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44 Fax: +1 610 797 3199 Cell: +1 603 661 1273 http://www.waveplace.org Waveplace on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Waveplace/270512992335?ref=ts Twitter: @waveplace http://twitter.com/waveplace ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion
Hey all, Sure, using the olpc health list sounds great to me. Lets make the switch. Ill get on top of it too just as soon as I get to Sao tome and am not texting from my phone in never-ending airport land (canceled flights how do I love thee...) but feel free to move the conversation there. Beth On Jun 25, 2010 4:11 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Beth Santos b...@waveplace.org wrote: See notes below about our Public Health meeting from Tuesday, June 22nd at 4pm EST. Given the interest in health -- do you know about... - USAID's health materials at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/ - WHO Pacific's openly available health materials at POLHN - login as guest to get into the courses at http://courses.polhncourses.org/course/category.php?id=9 . Main website at http://polhn.org/ , brief outline of what they do at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=66852 cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Notes from OLPC/Waveplace Health Discussion
Hi all, To those who attended- thanks for a GREAT talk about public health on the XO! Those of you who couldn't be there, be sure to keep yourself posted on our listserv, where we'll continue the dialogue. See notes below about our Public Health meeting from Tuesday, June 22nd at 4pm EST. Next steps: - Add more ideas under each of the OLPC Health unit suggestions over the *next week*. - Divide topics among people and build units over the next *month or two* to create an arsenal of public health curricula that can be used in current and future laptop projects. Ready, set, go! Anyone not on the hea...@waveplace.org listserv who would like to take part in the topic identifying and project executing, send me an email and I will add you. Beth Attendees: Beth Santos Caryl Bigenho Jessica Curtis George Hunt Steve Sargon Randall Caton David Cullen Samuel Klein (chat only) Mika Matsuzaki (chat only) - Interest in making public health programs for the XO - Focus on Etoys - Will allow teachers who are not familiar with computers to edit programs so they are culturally relevant - Will also allow students to interact with the lessons more - Does not NEED to be Etoys-focused - Waveplace: divides units into ten lessons, each lesson is about 50 minutes in length (not necessarily all time used on the computer, some interaction off the computer too) - We can take on 5+ units and create ten lessons for each unit (for example, the sanitation unit includes lessons on hand washing, water filtration, etc) - Haiti, São Tomé- both locations that could really use public health programs on the XO NOW - Topics on the OLPC Health Wiki (can structure from here)- via http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_Content - - Physiology http://go/Physiology and body systems/functions - Reproduction??? - Family planning?? Caution with these, could be culturally insensitive/irrelevant - Tobacco and smoking (also under air quality) - Breast feeding - Steve's wife- La Leche Legue - Water and sanitation http://go/Water_and_sanitation - water testing and filtration - in Haiti there are good and bad wells - see microscope talk below- we can compare good and bad water by number of microbes, color of water, etc. - Beth will get in touch with MIT students that created their own water filtration kits for kids to use - http://www.water1st.org/work/bangladesh/update.html - village-scale water treatment - latrines- Jess-- water-sealed toilets - Solar-powered water still - Diarrheal diseases - hand-washing - http://www.kidzworldespanol.com/articulo/792-lavarse-las-manos - Hygiene- hand-washing could also come into play here - Nutrition http://go/Nutrition - Food Force on the XO explores the topic of world hunger - Diet planner - Vitamin A and blindness - Infectious diseases - Make sure to focus on both communicable AND non-communicable diseases - H1N1 - MALARIA - mosquito nets - São Tomé has been able to end death from malaria under age 5 - Free from Malaria game on the XO - HIV/AIDS - Indoor cooking and air quality - Environment/deforestation/reforestation - Pollution - Smoking - First aid and field medicine - Disaster Relief http://go/Disaster_Relief - Also see more topics on http://www.tchd.org/kids.html - http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php (Where There Is No Doctor) - Ways to present info - Interactive lessons - take the kids outside or doing something physical - Data storing/importing - perhaps using Kedama - Netlogo/Starlogo - health simulations where kids can play - Get local involvement and ownership-- make sure content is *culturally appropriate and relevant* - Encourage local institutions and governments to adapt the content and presentation of content to their needs - Use the XO as a microscope- camera has a resolution of 720 x 480 - Kids can use the microscope to explore micro/macrobiotic things in water, for example - seeing the invisible - Mike Dawson's Afghanistan stuff - http://www.paiwastoon.af/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=50Itemid=23lang=en - Teachers and other locals would be able to make their own programs --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace
[IAEP] Health nuts
Hey all, Looking for someone who can get me in touch with people who might be interested in developing health-focused Etoys education software- nutrition, sanitation, HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria prevention, anatomy, etc. This is an initiative I want to grow in countries in Africa and could use some content help. Whether it's international health professionals or computer programmers who want to make the actual games, let me know. Beth --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace Foundation Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44 Fax: +1 610 797 3199 Cell: +1 603 661 1273 http://www.waveplace.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Health nuts
Wise idea. This is just me writing at a mile a minute. But 100% agreed! Beth --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace Foundation Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44 Fax: +1 610 797 3199 Cell: +1 603 661 1273 http://www.waveplace.org On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:14 PM, David Farning dfarn...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Beth Santos b...@waveplace.org wrote: Hey all, Looking for someone who can get me in touch with people who might be interested in developing health-focused Etoys education software- nutrition, sanitation, HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria prevention, anatomy, etc. This is an initiative I want to grow in countries in Africa and could use some content help. Whether it's international health professionals or computer programmers who want to make the actual games, let me know. A rather minor point As we talk about content to augment teaching specific concepts or tasks ,it might be better to use the educator terminology of learning object[1] rather than game. I see rather a lot of push back when talking to teachers about 'games', but the parse 'learning object' seems to resonate well:) david 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object Beth --- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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