1) OLE Nepal's live video presentation of their OLPC/Sugar deployment work begins 9AM NYC Time tomorrow (Monday, July 8) off this site:
http://youtube.com/unleashkids OLE Nepal's Executive Director Rabi Karmacharya will be accompanied by his Program Manager (Subir Pradhanang) and Network/Systems guy (Basanta Shrestha) discussing their foundational OLPC/Sugar community deployment. Catalyzing so many volunteers early on in 2008/2009, as they took on the very hardest challenges from day 1 (School Server, deliberate pedagogy exploration, electronic library, electrical/networking hacks, political outreach, etc). It's time to assess where these many thousands of Nepalese kids heading today, around this exquisite and challenging learning technology journey, and we'd love you to join ! 2) Most important I'd ask everyone to submit questions about http://olenepal.org in advance, either to cont...@unleashkids.org or by Tweeting hashtag #unleashkids. Community and Deployment are such big and vital words, but what could be more meaningful that intermingling our half-decade of global deployment lessons, keeping OLPC/Sugar's beating hearts so real? I encourage everyone to dig into the Nepal story starting @ http://planet.laptop.org and http://planet.sugarlabs.org, as we're *extremely privileged* Nepal is opening a window into their extraordinary experience -- presenting about an hour on this central topic: Enhancing Teaching & Learning with Appropriate Technologies at OLE Nepal 3) Finally a gigantic thanks to the all-volunteer force making these diverse biweekly live video interviews possible, uncovering difficult reveals on how we can all move the OLPC/Sugar enigma forward. They know well who they are, but maestro Mike Lee especially deserves the highest recognition--for actually driving us all to bring these historical micro-documentaries into fruition. Thanks Mike-- and perhaps all worldwide will one day be part of Mike's http://olpclearningclub.org after all =) -- Unsung Heroes of the OLPC Community, interviewed live @ http://facebook.com/unleashkids
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