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Revision as of 20:49, 11 June 2008
All presentations and video can be downloaded from http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp
Agenda
Tuesday, May 20
| 10:30 | Welcome
Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child |
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| 10:45 | OLPC Operational Strategy
Chuck Kane, President, One Laptop per Child |
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| 11:00 | Future and XO 2.0
Nicholas Negroponte |
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| 11:30 | OLPC as the Ninth Development Goal for the New Millennium
Nirj Deva, Member of the European Parliament |
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| 12:15 | OLPC Deployment in Uruguay
Miguel Brechner, President of the Uruguay Technology Laboratory (LATU) |
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| 12:35 | The Starfish on the Beach: Why OLPC for the Poorest and Most Remote? and How?
Oscar Becerra, Chief Educational Technology Officer, Ministry of Education of Perú |
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| 12:55 | Q & A with Miguel Brechner and Oscar Becerra | video: | swf | ogg | |
| 1:15 | Lunch and Demonstrations | ||||
| 2:30 | High Quality Education: A Basic Human Right
David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect, One Laptop per Child |
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| 2:50 | Global Panel
Rwanda (slides) |
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| 3:35 | Q & A and Discussion with the Panel Members | ||||
| 4:10 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 4:20 | Children as Media Makers
Glorianna Davenport, Prinicipal Research Associate, Head of the Media Fabrics Research Group |
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| 4:30 | Music Painter Across Cultures
Barry Vercoe, MIT Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, One Laptop per Child Asia Pacific Liaison |
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| 4:40 | Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Academic Head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Head of the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group |
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| 5:00 | Beyond the Printing Press: Computers as Learning Environments for All Children
Alan Kay, President, Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc. |
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| 5:30 | Reception and Demonstration of One Laptop per Child Learning Activities |
Wednesday, May 21
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome & Overview of the workshop | ||||
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Introduction to Sugar Desktop and User Interface
Jim Gettys, Vice President, Software Engineering |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | Sugar User Interface continued with Q&A
Eben Eliason, UI Designer |
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| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break | ||||
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Localization on the XO Laptop
Jim Gettys, Vice President, Software Engineering |
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| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 1:30 - 3:30 | Connectivity – school, community and the internet
Michail Bletsas, Vice President, Advanced Technology & Connectivity |
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| 3:30 - 3:45 | Break | ||||
| 3:45 – 4:00 | The Uruguay Experience
Fiorella Haim, Plan Ceibal/LATU |
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| 4:00 – 4:30 | XO Laptop School Server
John Watlington, Vice President, Hardware Engineering |
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| 4:30 - 5:30 | Discussion |
Thursday, May 22
| 9:00 – 11:00 | XO Laptop Software Roadmap
Kim Quirk, Director of Technology |
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| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | XO Laptop Power
Richard Smith, Hardware Engineer |
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| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 2:45 | Support and Repair
John Watlington, Vice President, Hardware Engineering |
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| 2:45 - 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00 - 5:00 | Technology Open Discussion | |
| 6:30 | OLPC Dinner |
Friday, May 23
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Activities Presentation
Dale Joachim, MIT Media Lab |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | XO Laptop Activities: loading, developing and sharing
SJ Klein, Director, Community Content |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Building and leveraging community
Mako Hill, MIT Media Lab/OLPC |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Brazil Presentation
Jose Aquino, Special Advisor to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:15 | Uruguay Presentation
Shirley Siri, Marcela Brener, Fiorella Haim, Plan CEIBAL - LATU |
| 1:15 - 2:45 | Key Learning issues: Local Teams, Teacher Development & Collaboration
David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | XO Laptops in Kliptown, South Africa
Julia Weber |
| 3:00- 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Discussion and Wrap up |
| 4:00 | Adjourn |