[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-05 Thread David Leeming
. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC Hi David, thanks for all this information.. it is certainly helping me to reflect on my experience. Perhaps the problem was our expectation and approach to the OLPC in Tuvalu. We were expecting to use

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-03 Thread David Leeming
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 7:24 a.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC I have two questions for David Leeming, based on this conversation. Thank you for offering to answer, David. 1. From Leigh's

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-03 Thread Leigh Blackall
, Solomon Islands *From:* Maria Droujkova [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, 4 December 2008 7:24 a.m. *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Re: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC I have two questions for David Leeming, based

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-02 Thread valerie
Thanks David http://laptop.org/manual - very nice. I hadn't seen that before Did you ever see the page for interested personal computer users who had access to an XO? I keep hoping to find a copy. I don't remember enough to find it in waybackmachine. I thought it was a great idea because it

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-01 Thread valerie
When I first started looking into OLPCs, there was a one page guide for people who had used other computers. It addressed lots of these issues and explained work arounds or alternatives. It had a list of fun activities that would help orient an experienced computer user to XO behaviors. By the

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-01 Thread Leigh Blackall
Thanks for the pointers Jim. Actually, I never did work it out... nor did 40 others! I'm fending off attacks on my blog... I knew I'd hit a nerve with my post. I can see how many people will dismiss my post as couldn't get past my own preferences, but that ignores the experience of the 40 others

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-01 Thread David Leeming
: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC Thanks for the pointers Jim. Actually, I never did work it out... nor did 40 others! I'm fending off attacks on my blog... I knew I'd hit a nerve with my post. I can see how many people will dismiss my post as couldn't get past my own preferences

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-01 Thread David Leeming
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of valerie Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 1:56 a.m. To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC When I first started looking into OLPCs, there was a one page guide for people who had used other computers. It addressed lots of these issues and explained work

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-11-30 Thread Leigh Blackall
Hi Valerie, Glad you asked, as I'm in the process of posting to my blog a text that basically outlines my over all disappointment with them. I was guilty of being charmed by their innovations, but that has always been from the perspective of what the OLPC could offer computing generally,

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-11-30 Thread Leigh Blackall
link to my blog post: http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/my-experience-with-olpc-in-tuvalu/ On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Valerie, Glad you asked, as I'm in the process of posting to my blog a text that basically outlines my over all

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-11-30 Thread Wong Leo
again Leigh , I am doing what I can do , I am going to translate your post into Chinese and put it in yeeyan website agian , if you don't mind , would you please post here the whole article coz I canot get access to your blog here in China many thanks and you are always my inspirtation !!!