All 3 verdicts are in, 2 receiving partial approval, and the other
needing detail:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings
Thank you to all members of today's FaculTEA a.k.a. all-volunteer
enthusiastic jury, for your most dedicated peer-mentoring!!
Most all shipments should arrive before SF's community summit begins,
exactly 1 week from today. Y'all please remember to REGISTER if you
will join, want one of the remaining shirts -- and *new* laptop
stickers. Thanks to some mind-blowingly productive volunteers we'll All
Soon Meet at the Golden Gate:
http://olpcSFcs2010.eventbrite.com
http://olpcSF.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/Community_Summit_2010
On 10/15/2010 2:16 PM, Holt wrote:
Even though OLPC's Contributors Program has a bit of a temporary inventory
shortage this month, please all join us voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar
community projects over IRC Live Chat, even as I apologize certain
shipments may be somewhat delayed! Please join us live now, to make the
best project allocations & mentoring relationships--starting right here:
http://forum.laptop.org/chat
Then type at bottom:
/join #olpc-meeting
AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 3 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Testing & Fixing Bugs in Sugar - Purley Surrey, London, England
2. XO laptops as assistive technology - Seattle, Washington
3. Calling San Cristobal Island Community - Galapagos, Ecuador
* 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. Testing & Fixing Bugs in Sugar - Purley Surrey, London, England
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68448
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 1 XO over undetermined months
Project Background/Objectives:
I've join the sugar labs community and I want to help test current and
new releases of sugar labs. I asked the question on the sugar irc
channel
on freenode about obtaining an XO laptop to help with testing. And was
suggested I apply with the contributor programme, I also want to write
new activties for X-O platform to achieve this I need the use of XO
laptop.
2. XO laptops as assistive technology - Seattle, Washington
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68467
http://adhdxo.wordpress.com
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 7 XOs over 21 months
Project Objectives: (IN FULL @ http://adhdxo.wordpress.com)
Twenty percent of gifted students are estimated to be
"twice-exceptional."
http://education.families.com/blog/educating-twice-exceptional-students
School system tracking, which assigns high-scoring students to attend
certain classes at a certain school, results in a higher-than-average
concentration of 2E students in these classes. The 2E diagnosis is
used in education to describe people who are gifted academically, but
have learning disabilities. These people tend to fall through the
cracks in the school system--they are extremely intelligent but tend
to not show up on tests because of certain deficiencies in brain
development, learning style, behavior, etc. They are often diagnosed
with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Asperger's
syndrome, and other things along the autism spectrum. Significant
among their challenges are dysgraphia (physical problems that impede
handwriting), disorganization (including misplacing completed
assignments before they can turn them in, losing track of due dates,
misfiling their work), short-term memory issues (this most notably
shows up in math), and a host of other obstacles...
The grades of 2E students trend toward a reverse Bell curve:
they get mostly A and F grades. The failing grades are primarily
because of things that individual laptops could address:
* daily planners are missing entries
* daily planners are not legible, and work isn't done
* work gets completed but not turned in
* work is illegible or misread as being incorrect
* homework assignments and/or materials get left at school
* attention drifts during class and key concepts are missed
We propose to measure the effect on grades and outcomes of the
following:
* daily planners on computer
* teachers simply share out the assignment information instead
of relying on each student to write it down
* teachers can more easily check the planners for accuracy and
completeness
* parents have access to complete, current, legible planner
* alarms, reminders, etc. are in place so milestones don't
pass unnoticed
* the rate of completed work not getting turned in should near zero
* loose papers will not get misplaced if the work's not on paper
* even if it's misfiled on a computer, work can be found via search
* undesirable outcomes caused by legibility of handwriting
should be improved
* the OLPC camera can be used to photograph worksheets,
drawings, and other things that are not in electronic form, thus
keeping these things from being lost or misplaced
* quality of notes should improve since the computer can be
used to record vital lectures so they can be checked against the
notes, thus helping fill in gaps in notes caused by inattention
(grades from notes and grades from tests should improve)
3. Calling San Cristobal Island Community - Galapagos, Ecuador
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68822
[SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects ]
Requests 100 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
1. Developing kindergarten children´s use of computers, using existing
websites, e.g. BBC, British Council
2. Developing primary and secondary children´s ability to use internet,
research topics, prepare blogs, have e-pals and keep in touch
with world
outside the Galapagos. Raise knowledge of Galapagos fauna and
flora in
outside world by creating videos of animals on island, e.g.
seals and
iguanas. Develop resources about history of island by interviewing
older people about life in islands in past.
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