Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?
Tomeu - yes, thanks for the reminder. olpc asia is starting to publish their posts in both English and Chinese, and just relaunched their site; people who haven't are encouraged to give it a read. SJ On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:51, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Christoph, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at writes: I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar community activity happening in China? I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote chinese areas one day. I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know in China, thanks! Any pointers and help are much appreciated! Awesome news! SJ, can we have the OLPC Asia blog in the planet? http://www.olpc.asia/en/atom.xml Thanks all, Tomeu HTH, -- Bastien ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: I forgot to mention that I'm currently in Tokyo, Japan, taking a few days off. If any of you knows some LUG around here, or have contacts with a university that I could visit to spread the word about Sugar, just drop me an email, thanks. (I will surely visit some Go club, Nihon Kiin? They have a good school program. Be sure to show them the Playgo Activity. The American Go Association is working with us on improvements to the Playgo software, and we have discussed creating a content bundle. Terry Benson of AGA was just down the hall from me at Yale. A recent newsletter from them lists a large body of free Go content. There is also a free CD. http://www.usgo.org/resources/starterCD.htm there are usually good geek-nests, so maybe I'll stumble on some CS student by chance, who knows...) You could call up the CS department at Todai. There is a fair amount of cross-fertilization between MIT and Japan. Best to all, -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?
Hi Christoph, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at writes: I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar community activity happening in China? I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote chinese areas one day. I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know in China, thanks! Any pointers and help are much appreciated! HTH, -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:51, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Christoph, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at writes: I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar community activity happening in China? I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote chinese areas one day. I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know in China, thanks! Any pointers and help are much appreciated! Awesome news! SJ, can we have the OLPC Asia blog in the planet? http://www.olpc.asia/en/atom.xml Thanks all, Tomeu HTH, -- Bastien ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?
Awesome news! SJ, can we have the OLPC Asia blog in the planet? http://www.olpc.asia/en/atom.xml I forgot to mention that I'm currently in Tokyo, Japan, taking a few days off. If any of you knows some LUG around here, or have contacts with a university that I could visit to spread the word about Sugar, just drop me an email, thanks. (I will surely visit some Go club, there are usually good geek-nests, so maybe I'll stumble on some CS student by chance, who knows...) Best to all, -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?
Bastien, thanks a lot for your quick reply and all the information! :-) Enjoy your time in Tokyo, Christoph Bastien schrieb: Hi Christoph, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at writes: I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar community activity happening in China? I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote chinese areas one day. I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know in China, thanks! Any pointers and help are much appreciated! HTH, -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
