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* Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/ |
* Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/ |
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* Education in Uruguay: Laptops for all (Economist, Oct 1 -- not the most profound article, but interesting) http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609 |
* Education in Uruguay: Laptops for all (Economist, Oct 1 -- not the most profound article, but interesting) http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609 |
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* Kenyan Children Receive Their #OLPC Laptops http://olpc.tv/2009/09/23/kenyan-children-receive-their-olpc-laptops/ !olpc |
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== Proposed Topics/Stories == |
== Proposed Topics/Stories == |
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Revision as of 23:42, 3 October 2009
The following are dents/tweets suggested for the OLPC microblog. Please assist Brenda Wallace volunteering/editing here!
Tweets / Dents
These are ready to go (pending approval)
- #OLPC will be at "Teaching Open Source Summit" Oct 29-30 in Toronto. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09
- OLPC XO 1.5 Beta 2 Version Available For Contributors: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html
- Aussie Northern Territory: Computer dream sees light of day (1 Oct) http://ur1.ca/cswx #OLPC
- #OLPC in Uruguay - 380,000 laptops delivered for children and their teachers http://youtube.com/watch?v=glz2I84JafA
- Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy! German Master Thesis on the Sugar Learning Environment: http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/content/view/567/188/
- Bold Rwanda takes broadband leap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8266290.stm
- Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/
- Education in Uruguay: Laptops for all (Economist, Oct 1 -- not the most profound article, but interesting) http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609
- Kenyan Children Receive Their #OLPC Laptops http://olpc.tv/2009/09/23/kenyan-children-receive-their-olpc-laptops/ !olpc
Proposed Topics/Stories
need shortening or more info
This is [citation needed] --- Parts of Samoa is a a long way from recovering right now.
- #OLPC Samoa recovering from the Tsunami of 29 Sept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Samoa_earthquake
- Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included--Book publishers looking to embrace the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube are creating “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html
- Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/videos/uruguays-plan-ceibal-the-worlds-most-ambitious-roll-out-of-educational-technologies
- Impressive Public PowerPoint converted to PDF and posted to the bottom of: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources
(don't worry about counting the chars in the URL, they'll get converted to ur1.ca short urls)
Sent
- Can a laptop change the world? (BBC - 22 Sept) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html #OLPC Shiny 22:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
- XO 1.5: Create, Collaborate, Contribute: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/09/28/xo-1-5-create-collaborate-contribute/ #OLPC Shiny 04:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
- Technology & One Laptop Per Child movement key factors in Rwanda's economic growth (UK Telegraph): http://ur1.ca/csit #olpc Shiny 21:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)