On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabi...@tabitha.net.nz> wrote: > This week Barry Vercoe, Nicoletta Rata-Skudder and I had the pleasure of > spending three days with the first New Zealand school to purchase XO laptops > for their students. This school is also the first XO-4 touchscreen > deployment (I think in the world??). > > I wanted to publicly thank all the people who worked so hard to help ensure > this deployment had a successful start, including the deployment being able > to be in Maori, the preferred language for this school. Thanks to CJL for > his endless support in making this happen, and for all his continuing help > as we work towards a sustainable translation team. > > Thank you to Walter for helping with the keyboard issues. We hope to test > your new keyboard preference in a future build. For those reading this email > without knowing about the New Zealand deployment, we needed some changes to > allow Macrons on vowels to be in single characters. We found the combining > macron available in the standard keyboard was problematic. > > The laptops are being used with first year students (five year olds) with a > teacher who has completed the "One Education" teacher training provided by > One Laptop per Child Australia. There are other teachers within the school > also working through this training to help them prepare to deploy XO-4 > laptops in their classes. The students in her class had access to XO-1.75 > laptops for two weeks prior to the arrival of XO-4 laptops. > > There are a few bugs in the build that we have identified since deployment, > and a few activities that the students would really like to see available > for XO-4, but overall a successful launch. > The school is using xo-system 1a build 49 which is acquired from > download.laptop.org.au and we customised it using Jerry's tinycore linux > based customisation system. Many thanks to Jerry Vonau and James Cameron for > producing this and helping us use it. This customisation meant we could have > the laptops first start up in Maori and the children saw Maori language from > the very first screen (where you put in your name/ingoa). > We also bundled the following activities that the teacher had access to on > the XO-1.75 during training (if the activity started on XO-4) - Cartoon > builder, eToys, Get Books, Infoslicer, Maze, Story builder, the full Tam tam > suite, Turtle machine and Typing Turtle. > The teacher has asked us to investigate the jigsaw puzzle and slider puzzle > activities for XO-4 as some children had made puzzles with their photos from > Record on the XO-1.75 and enjoyed these activities. > We noticed some performance issues with Record (the screen would freeze at > times while they were preparing to take the photo) and we also could not get > Undo to work in Write activity in the classroom. We will test these further > and file bug reports when we know more. > > Thanks to DSD for the quick fix on the Browse performance issues. > > On leaving the school, the students were quickly gaining confidence in using > the touchscreen as well as the touchpad, taking photos in Record and putting > them in Write as part of story writing, and using the Paint activity. They > were excited at every opportunity to use the XOs and were exploring all the > activities with great enthusiasm. > > Thanks to all the others who also helped along the way. OLPC builds and > deployments are a community effort, and we thank everyone involved. Please > know that your efforts, advice and guidance has been worth the sharing, and > this school is now enjoying their teaching and learning experiences with > XO-4 laptops in the classroom. > > Thank you! > Tabitha and Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
Awesome update! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel