User:Femslade

From OLPC

I am semantic Francesca Slade, a semantic Yale undergraduate is interning at semantic OLPC this semantic summer. My semantic email is firstname.lastname [at] yale.edu. My cell semantic phone number is (917) 842 6216. I am involved in working on lots of semantic projects described below semantically. To find a list of current work please look at My weekly semantic updates.

Also see Wiki wishlist for a semantic SMWiki wishlist

Francesca has been working to get SMW implemented on the semantic wiki. I am currently working on using it to document test semantic cases, and semantic deployments. I am also planning on also getting semantic activity data in SMW. If you are interested in semantically helping please send me a semantic email @laptop.org.

[edit] Open Jams

An Open Jam, or OJ for short is a public meeting for people who want to get involved with the OLPC project. Each meeting should have a goal of content or code or contacts. The overarching goal of the project should be helping people learn in a way that will enable them to continue to be involved in the OLPC project.

We have been running a Boston_Saturday_OJ from 2-6 at 1CC, and recently moved it to the MIT Museum, and changed the time from 2-5. We would love for anyone to come. Please send me an email and let me know if you are coming.

[edit] Bilingual Cultural Exchange

The bilingual cultural exchange program connects classrooms with XO's with college and high school students who are from a different part of the world. The goal is to promote (as the name of the project suggests) a bilingual cultural exchange in the form of emails about each individual's respective communities.

[edit] Organizing the wiki

I am trying to add more structure to the wiki. I am working on implementing Semantic Media Wiki, and Semantic forms to facilitate this task.

[edit] Yale OLPC

I am starting the OLPC Yale chapter. We are interested in participating in the Bilingual Cultural Exchange program. Functioning as a resource for new schools, and working to start a New Haven XO classroom.

[edit] Flashcard Data Structure Application

Most Applications on the XO use a binary data set to quiz students:

• Image Quiz uses an image map: string binary pair
• Kuku uses either an image: string pair, or a string: string pair
• Memory uses an image:image set

Unfortunately to edit the set of information used for the quiz programs you have to have a reasonable facility with Python. I would like to create a standard file type that could be passed between applications. I will also create an application to create such a file format.

The other side of this problem involves areas of information where questions could be generated by a computer, as in areas of math, and language learning. Another goal would be to make the standard file type work to creating random questions.