Yes, I see that point but think it totally unreasonable. For one, I have no access to an OLPC because I'm within a wealthy nation. As I said in my post, I have read about them, even seen them in use, even had a little test run a few times, but it wasn't until actually in location did reality hit. 40 people, 2/3rds of whom had computing experience, 4 of whom at least as much as me, 2 more so than me. Yet no one appreciated the OLPCs as far as I could tell.
Seems to me that the OLPC should ship with a highly paid technician and teacher trainer - just to make sure people agree with western teaching ideals and know how to use eWaste properly. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Maria Droujkova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The issue that bothered me in your letter, Leigh, was: "he never ran > through a totally new hardware and software system before conducting a > 40-person workshop abroad." It takes significant resources just to organize > a workshop of that sort, counting time of everybody involved, travel, space > and so on. With 20/20 hindsight, it would seem kinda important to give > yourself "more" (to be determined how much, exactly) time to learn hardware > and software people will be using, before running a workshop of that scope. > I stepped into similar traps before, so by no means do I want to sound > "righteous" about it. Still, this is something that bothered me in your > letter: at least part of your frustration was self-inflicted through that > planning issue. If you looked at the system these people will actually be > using, ahead of time, maybe a few weeks earlier, you would have time to have > some of your questions answered. It may not have been a possibility, > though... > > Thinking way back to the hard time I had with figuring out the difference > between the web address line and the web search line, > MariaD > naturalmath.com > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Thanks for the pointers Jim. >> >> Actually, I never did work it out... nor did 40 others! >> >> I'm fending off attacks on my blog... I knew I'd hit a nerve with my post. >> I can see how many people will dismiss my post as "couldn't get past my own >> preferences", but that ignores the experience of the 40 others I spoke for, >> 10 of whom had never used a computer before. I watched a few people look at >> my Asus and could see their intuition working on it better than on the >> OLPCs. >> >> Leo, you got the text in this email thread right? >> >> >> > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
