ClassActs/Resources
VERY ROUGH DRAFT: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ClassActs (HTML), http://en.flossmanuals.net/ClassActs/ClassActs.pdf (~100 pages / 100+ MB, as of Sept 2009)
Please add other resources, with links if possible, to the following list. Please feel free to add comments about any of these resources if you wish. Additionally, if you feel the resource has potential material to include in a future instructional DVD for new XO users, please mark the resource "+DVD."
Photographs
http://flickr.com/olpc
http://flickr.com/olpc/sets (sorted by country/deployment)
In English
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Deployment_Resources
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Resources
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Technical_Manual
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Workbook
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_FAQ
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=gallery Sugar Learning Gallery
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Documentation_Projects
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/ Click around this colorful, well illustrated elementary ed. curriculum site from down under, for set up and organizational ideas.
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5d/Learning_Manual_V2.pdf This "OLPCorps Learning Guide" has 10 pages of relevant text; e.g., mission, faq's, stories, and activity lists. Be sure to take a look at this.
Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post, and here!)
Billy Grissom's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published)
File:OLPC Deployment Guide -- jul09.pdf from Michael Hutak, based on Walter Bender's
Very up-to-date OLPC Nauru reportage and May 2009 29-page DRAFT REPORT File:Leeming-Nauru-OLPC-Apr-May-2009-Report (draft 1).pdf fostered by David Leeming. (video)
See also his (1) OLPC Solomon Islands work (2) Teacher tips/XS/Solar summary and (3) Community Radio idea!
The Librarian Chick's free textbook catalog
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2009/04/nandblastear/ NANDblaster if you want to flash a software image onto many XO's at once.
DRAFT FLIER/CHAPTER File:XOsflyer3.pdf by Scott Carollo of Gallaudet Univ Art Dept, with help from Kevin Cole and Caryl Bigenho's original writeup on Pakistan.
DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #2 (using Scribus, SVerma): File:Story-layout-test-sverma.pdf with his graphics materials File:Booksprint-layout-stuff-by-sverma.zip
DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #3 (JGay): File:Book-draft-layout-by-jgay.pdf
DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #4: 1000-XO Deployment Story in File:Dujiangyan-Sichuan-China.pdf by OLPC Asia / Hong Kong (18-page PDF, June 2009)
"OLPC Startup in 5 Easy Pieces" (File:Startupv1-by-Bryan-Berry.pdf) is a very elegant warning of what can go wrong, as you build your deployment team, based on Bryan Berry's OLE Nepal experiences!
Moodle Slideshow: Using Open Source to Support Education by Martin Dougiamas
New Measure guide forthcoming showing how to build your own cheap sensors. Claudia U. is expecting to provide prepress links of her recent work here, helping us summarize/excerpt.
OLPC AF Downloads Page includes Teacher training content, Monitoring / Evaluation materials, etc.
"Got Implementation?" Nepal article from Jan 2007 incl fun logo!
2 great lesson plans from Claudia: (1) File:XO-Measure-Manipulate-Reflect.pdf (2) File:XO-MyCommunity.pdf
XOs in El Salvador: A community deployment in Chalatenango (Presentation to http://OLPCLearningClub.org DC by Jeff Elkner, Sept 19th 2009). Also available in PDF: File:XOs in El Salvador.pdf
Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? Includes video. Summary by Michael Trucano, World Bank's Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist. Discussing Miguel Brechner's 19-page slide presentation "One Laptop per Child and per Teacher" here: File:2162969-uruguay-plan-ceibal.pdf
Where There's No Doctor? Amazing 400+ page internationalist health guide: [Image:WTND_TOC_and_Intro.pdf]
In French (or Google translated from French)
Gabon/FranXOphonie Pedagogic Guide, Google Translation to English, OLPC France's Wikified version (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French)
Translation Success Story! (english auto-translation)
OLPC France's Amazing Media Archive
In Spanish
Uruguay/Ceibal's impact/implications booklet (hilarious cartoons!)
A set of images of pages from the Uruguay/Ceibal book on Flickr for somewhat easier browsing 1
A Flickr slideshow of the Uruguay/Ceibal book book pages 2
Uruguay's colorful 48-page starter guide: "Manual Basico XO" (2da edicion)
"Proyecto Flor de Ceibo" (Uruguay's March 2009 report)
Mexico's Mochilla Digital workshops. Includes presentation, workshop lesson plans, participants workbooks. Good presentation of constructionism. [1]. Three teachers workshop guides, second one has extensive coverage of Constructionism, Collaborative Learning, and Project Based Learning. Way too long...might be excellent if translated and condensed.
Mochilla Digital's "Tools" 19 Activity Guides plus extras. Some screen shots are from earlier versions of Sugar, but instructions are excellent. [2]
Peru's Teacher Topic Guides
