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AGENDA:
* Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals.
Plz join us advocating for & reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. Marysville Rotary XO Literacy Project - Guatemala / Marysville, WA
2. Community Health Information for OLPC - Montara, CA
3. Project VOICE - Philippines / Wantagh, NY
4. ClassContribute, a homework / gradebook app - Eastchester, NY
5. OLPC Tuva - Tiburon CA, Russia
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1. Marysville Rotary XO Literacy Project - Guatemala / Marysville, WA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79572
http://www.marysvillerotary.org/literacyXOproject
http://olpcMAP.net?id=884001
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 6-8 XOs over 2-3 months
Project Objectives:
Determine if the XO Laptop systems will provide an educational
environment needed to improve both the education level in our local
early child learning program and if these systems can become a valuable
educational instrument in the rural / poverty areas of Guatemala. Also,
to determine if it is possible to have both a simple "Sugar"
programming
and a vocational repair facility at our Technology High School, thus
expanding the educational and learning spectrum across many age groups.
2. Community Health Information for OLPC - Montara, CA
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79823
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WiRED-CHI
http://wiredinternational.org
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XO-1s and 2 XO-1.5s over 2+ months
Project Objectives:
This request is for two/three laptops to use as test and demonstration
tools in a project to provide interactive health training programs
through WiRED’s community health information (CHI) project. We seek
to load and test our software on these machines as prototypes for a
larger program involving OLPC computers. The complete software
(health topics, auxiliary health libraries, search and access tools)
will be provided without charge to OLPC for use in its global work.
See a sample at
http://www.itnhealth.net/CHIC2/presentations/50/player.html
3. Project VOICE - Philippines & Wantagh, NY
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80245
http://olpcMAP.net?id=883002
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XOs over 12 months
Project Objectives:
The goal of Project VOICE is to foster literacy, opinion and expression
in underprivileged Filipino youth living in the Philippines. This
goal can
be divided into two sub-goals, namely: to teach English from a young
age in
order to develop a strong command of the language at an older age,
and, in
older, literate youth, encourage expression and journalism, and the
formation of opinions and the sharing of ideas, especially regarding
social
issues.
To these ends, we list the following practical benchmarks and
concrete objectives of the project:
A. To develop an open-source English language teaching software,
similar to
Rosetta Stone, that is lightweight and optimized to run on XO's, and
that is
custom-tailored to the unique needs of children in the poorer
regions of the
Philippines and elsewhere. B. To deploy and conduct a pilot
program in a test school in the Philippines. C. To develop or port an
open-source journalism tool for the XO. D. To deploy and conduct
a pilot program in a test school in the Philippines for this tool.
4. ClassContribute, a homework / gradebook app - Eastchester, NY
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80592
http://olpcMAP.net?id=893001
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 1 XO-1 and 1 XO-1.5 over ~6 months
Project Objectives:
I want to be able to have a HTML (in browser) way for a teacher to
post individual student grades, as well as interactive homework
assignments. I also want to implement an “E-Mail your Teacher”
section, where a student could choose a specific topic for which
they could contact their teacher.
5. OLPC Tuva - Tiburon CA, Russia
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81063
http://olpctuva.wordpress.com
http://olpcMAP.net?id=892003
SPECIFIC SITE NEEDS TO BE POSTED OFF http://olpcMAP.net &
http://j.mp/6UhCtd
Requests 2 XO-1.5s over 12 months
Project Objectives: (excerpts)
Primary project will be: Translation of the Sugar learning platform
into Tuvan (where appropriate)
Secondary project will be to incorporate Measure activity into the
study of throat-singing tradition from Tuva.
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