Khan Academy
From OLPC
Khan Academy videos are being used to supplement clasroom learning in Mexico, Uruguay, and Mongolia among other OLPC deployments.
A project is starting to come together around developing and maintaining an offline package for the XS school server that presents and organizes KA videos.
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[edit] Getting and playing videos
[edit] KA web app
- The web app, and an offline version
- The Google Code site for the app
- A Windows-only offline server with scripts that let you pull down sets of videos. (Linux port needed!)
[edit] Downloading videos
There are various options for downloading videos, including via the offline Web app above.
- Other online players
- Skoool is developing an online KA video player
[edit] Translation
- Existing translation efforts
- A list of subtitled and dubbed languages
- Ways to help translate
- A summary of the process including how to real-time update their subtitles, and how to sign up to become a dubber
- Suggestions for how to help and a translator's reference
[edit] Participants
If you are interested in helping out with this project, please add your name below. You may also want to join the schoolserver mailing list.
[edit] from recent email
On testing out a schoolserver
> we're working on setting up KA in Oceania. > will let you know how it works out
On translations and KA pilots
> Neil can probably chime in about the translation > of KA videos since he did that in Mongolia. They have > certain guidelines, but they are not strict. > > Agami, who I mailed you about earlier, wants to do a pilot with their > KA videos and measure the success of it. They will probably then > report to KA since they have a working relationship with them. If they > partner with OLPC, they can probably join and contribute to that > project. > > L.
