Please all join us right now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community
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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 7 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. 3D graphics testing - Ashland, Virginia
2. Peru Rainforest Volunteers
3. CNC milling machine integration - Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts
4. Prakash Educational Software Package - Patiala/Punjab, India
5. OLPC for Paramaribo, Suriname / Peace Corps
6. 6th/7th Grade Mesh Network Tutoring Program - Springfield, Massachusetts
7. Peace Corps Zambia Project - Northern Zambia
* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring below?!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects
http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27
* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries
1. 3D graphics testing - Ashland, Virginia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62754
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Requests 1 XO-1.5 over ? months
Project Objectives:
Improve usabilty of overall XO usability and 3D graphics testing.
2. Peru Rainforest Volunteers
http://somosazucar.org
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgz5x2t3_1f9qrrtwj
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63004
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Requests 2 XO-1.5s over ? months
Project Objectives:
"Malla es un taller itinerante, diseñado para fomentar la apropiación
tecnológica en comunidad."*
"Malla is a travelling workshop, designed to ease technology
appropriation
in community."
1. contacto con la COMUNIDAD local ( contacting local communities )
2. levantamiento de información BRECHA DIGITAL ( measure digital gap
metrics )
3. sesiones de aprendizaje y práctica AZÚCAR ( learning sessions with
Sugar )
3. CNC milling machine integration - Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://makeyourbot.org
http://makeyourbot.org/mantis9-1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157624026918475/
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63028
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Requests XO over ? months
Project Objectives:
"David Carr and Henry Holtzman at the Media Lab need an
XO-1.5 so that they can integrate their $87 CNC milling machine with
TurtleArt!"
4. Prakash Educational Software Package - Patiala/Punjab, India
http://infernotech.co.cc
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63100
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Requests 2 XOs over ? months
Project Objectives:
Sugarize Prakash Educational Software Package (ESP) to run on XO laptops.
Educational Software Package (ESP) prototypes have been initially
developed
using Microsoft’s C# and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and the
package includes applications catering to the learning competencies
(reading, writing, listening and speech) of primary school children.
In addition, ESP also has a Multi-Point application that enables engaging
children in an application using more than once mice input to promote
collaborative learning.
5. OLPC for Paramaribo, Suriname / Peace Corps
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63211
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 1 XO over 8 months
Project Objectives:
Create a compact printed hand-out that explains the OLPC concept, the
basics of the learning approach, and about the XO machine. The
hand-out will use pictures and several local languages. Background:
http://www.sofos.nl/blog/2008/12/24/olpc-one-laptop-per-child-in-suriname/
6. 6th/7th Grade Mesh Network Tutoring Program - Springfield, Massachusetts
http://www.grade6xotutoring.webs.com
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63233
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
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Requests 2 XOs over 6 months
Project Objectives:
Our objectives are to help students in a younger grade than us (we will
be in 7th and helping 6th), do better in school by using computers and
communicating with each other through mesh networking, while at the same
time, sharing outcomes; new ways of teaching with the XO, on our project
website. With this concept, everyone will benefit from our project.
7. Peace Corps Zambia Project - Northern Zambia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63474
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Requests 1-5 XOs over 20 months
Project Objectives:
Difficulties arise as rural Zambian children strive
for diverse and far-reaching opportunities beyond farming, carpentry,
domestic
house work, or working at the local tuck shop. One of the most
substantial
contributors to this grass-hut ceiling, holding so many rural Zambian
children
back, is a lack of access to both technology and the instruction of
its use.
This project’s design allows students to learn about
computers, their applications, and computer safety and maintenance.
Through
both the XO laptops and the instruction from myself and local Zambian
co-teachers, who will also be learning from me in order for the spread of
knowledge to continue even after my departure from Zambia (two years
from now).
Armed with U.S. graduate-level computer courses, a
lifetime of computer use, and human resources with whom to consult, I am
qualified to teach computer literacy, and I have seen first hand the
potential
benefits offered by computer literacy courses.
With their newly acquired computer knowledge and
skills, the 8th and 9th grade children in Kapoko Zone
(includes 5 schools: 4 government and 1 community) will be better
prepared for
secondary school (the point at which many Zambian children are first
exposed to
computers), college (the point at which computer skills are
essential), and the
professional word (opening them up to a plethora of job opportunities).
Finally, the Peace Corps computer literacy project for
Kapoko zone schools (62474) serves to provide sustainable knowledge
transfer
and continuing education. In addition to teaching 8th and 9th
grade students computer literacy, I will be training interested teachers
through allowing them to co-teach the course.
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