Re: [Marketing] OLPC-SL_PR_20091119draft

2009-11-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
Think about the, make your own animated book angle, might not take too many words to add it. I think this book says so many wonderful things, not just about how to teach with the XO, but as an example of a teacher contributing to a world wide education movement. The story he uses for this one par

Re: [Marketing] OLPC-SL_PR_20091119draft

2009-11-17 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks for that Caroline, I hadn't known about that book. i'm not sure we can add that in though, Chuck told me today lots of changes are necessary. For sure we need to cut, it's too wordy. I believe the number of non-English eBooks for children in the Internet Archive is small :-( Sean On Tue,

Re: [Marketing] OLPC-SL_PR_20091119draft

2009-11-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
Nice. Would a mention of the book out of Peru make sense? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom#.C2.A9_THE_XO_LAPTOP_IN_THE_CLASSROOM I also really like the idea of students making their own books in Etoys. Gerald is using this basic concept also in NY State and

[Marketing] OLPC-SL_PR_20091119draft

2009-11-16 Thread sdaly
I've shared a document with you: OLPC-SL_PR_20091119draft https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdHD6KQrRjyaZGRoODhnNm5fOWY0bXpqdmd4&hl=en&invite=CMfc6IAF It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this document, just click the link above. Here's the link to the first d