Please all join us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EST Boston Time Today/FRIDAY -- in just over 2.5hrs from now!) http://forum.laptop.org/chat
Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. OLPC Ideas for Moshi, Tanzania Area - Virginia/Washington DC, USA 2. Small Solutions/Hands of charity @ Keongo School - Kenya, Newburyport, Massachusetts 3. NACIF OLPC-Lending Library in Gomoa-Dasum District of Ghana / New York, USA 4. Application - Turtle Art Curriculum Pilot - Needham, Massachusetts 5. Gambia StartUp / XO-machines used as a tool to collect data for the District Health Information System, DHIS - The Gambia / Asker, Norway * 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. OLPC Ideas for Moshi, Tanzania Area - Virginia/Washington DC, USA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50418 [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests (12?) XO-1.5 over 9 months Project Objectives: See referenced proposal [WHERE?]. OLPC input would be a major part of a sustainable, cooperative teacher capacity building effort in the Moshi, Tanzania area. 2. Small Solutions/Hands of charity @ Keongo School - Kenya / Newburyport, Massachusetts http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52890 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/KenyaSmallSolutions_HOC_KeongoSchool http://hoclaptop.blog.com [NEED UPDATING!] Requests 10 XOs over 4 months Project Objectives: We hope to make learning of Mathematics easier and more interesting by using the activities the XO laptop has to inspire interest and raise the average percentage mark of all the children by 20% by the end of the three months. 3. NACIF OLPC-Lending Library in Gomoa-Dasum District of Ghana / New York, USA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52942 [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 4 XOs over 3 months Project Objectives: Our goal is to build a number of "paperless" libraries in which OLPCs replace paper books. NACIF is a charitable organization dedicated to helping young girls obtain a great education and, towards this goal, is building or equipping a number of libraries in remote villages in Ghana. The cost of supplying books to these libraries is however prohibitive and NACIF has decided it can provide serve more girls by using e-books. The OLPC is the perfect medium for such a project in the areas in which NACIF works. Most importantly, we want to encourage girls to create and share content about their community, something they cannot easily do with books. The content will include creating diaries, news articles, and photo-albums. Thus, the OLPC provides these girls with the "active" educational experience as opposed to the passive education they will gain through reading paper books. 4. Application - Turtle Art Curriculum Pilot - Needham, Massachusetts http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54466 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_university_chapter/Projects/Curriculum [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 10 XOs over 6 months Project Objectives: The immediate goal is to run an after school program for 3rd-5th graders that teaches math and engineering concepts by using Turtle Art. We would like to demonstrate that programs like Turtle Art allow students to grasp concepts such as angles and variables at a younger age. We plan to document the curriculum and make it available online and to the OLPC Community. We are also attempting to find teachers willing to try out the curriculum in the classroom concurrently with our pilot or shortly after. There has been some interest from the Cambridge Friends School in partnering with us. Finally, if the project is successful we hope to continue developing and piloting curricula that use the XO and/or Sugar as teaching tools. 5. Gambia StartUp / XO-machines used as a tool to collect data for the District Health Information System, DHIS - The Gambia / Asker, Norway http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=54571 http://gambiastartup.com [SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ] Requests 3-10 XOs over 6 months Project Objectives: Gambia has become a part of the HISP program. http://hisp.org/ DHIS is deployed in the regional levels, and the plan is now to connect as many of the health facilities with sustainable equipment. The XO-machines will be used in different rural health facilites for collecting of health data. The health data can be collected both off/online. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep