EKindling/Projects/Remote Pilot Deployment in Lubang

OLPC Philippines grassroots group

Remote Pilot Deployment:

Lubang,Occidental Mindoro,Philippines

eKindling is collaborating with OLPC Friends and OLPC-NZ(New Zealand) in bringing the first remote school Pilot in the Philippines. This will be made possible through the generous fund raising and contributions by current and former National Computer Center employees with the leadership of Meg Simpson. The goal is to deploy 100 laptops to 4 classrooms in the school.

eKindling and OLPC Educational Project Milestone

• Result of the first Lubang meeting
  • Lubang Educational Project: [1]
• Deployment Ground Breaking ( 5 Day Training)

Donor's List

The Lubang OLPC Pilot has been made possible by generous donations from current and former employees of the National Computer Center. This is all for the love of the current Mayor of Lubang, Juan M Sanchez . Mayor Sanchez was the founder and first Managing Director of the National Computer Center.

Friends of Lubang eKindling OLPC Deployment

1. Susan Abaya
2. Mon Acebes
3. Jing and Bing Acosta
4. Ting Alberto
5. Fides Alviar
6. Bella Amurao-Box
7. Art & Reggie Aquino
8. Jopine Atienza
9. Jane Moraleda Avila
10. Sonya Badiola
11. Willie Badiola
12. Jun Banan
13. Bhoy and Cora Barretto
14. Bot Bautista
15. Ping Bayani
16. Dency Wong Bermas
17. Soc and Weet Brazal
18. Thicz Tiotuyco, Linda Navarro, Shiony Binamira, Luchi & Mario Lavin
19. Rico Carmona
20. Christy Castro
21. Charles Chan
22. Seny Coad
23. Ruben Cortez
24. Lorna and Cesar de Jeus
25. Angie (Yeye) de Lara
26. Alex de leon
27. Flor Parel del Rosario
28. Toch dela Torre(In Memory of Emilyn)
29. Margaret Echevarria
30. Letty Enriquez-Mary
31. Bien Espino
32. Nymia & John Eunson
33. Marie and Manny Evasco
34. Robert Felipe
35. Rey Galvez
36. Ann Gatmaytan
37. Liz Lejarde Gonzalez
38. Linda Hill
39. Tom and Epay Lara
40. Tommy Lara
41. Marissa Legaspi
42. JJ Lindaya
43. Maria Zaida Lopez
44. Rene Macaraeg
45. Danny Manahan
46. Boots Manansala
47. Didi Manarang
48. Rene & Yael Manongdo
49. Leo Mascarinas
50. Shala Miran
51. Irma Modesto
52. Edna Murillo
53. Angel Naval
54. Lyle and Nane Nebre
55. Jun and Amie Ofrecio
56. Tess and Palatz Palatino
57. Robert Pangilinan
58. Nerissa Pato
59. Nene & Med Pestano
60. PMA Class '55
61. Lydia Pons
62. Cosme and Evelyn Purugganan
63. Dodie Quiaoit
64. Mr & Mrs Elmer Ramos
65. Jorge Reyes
66. Col Bert Rodriguez and Nini Rodrigues
67. Augusto & Yoly Roxas
68. Roy Rubio
69. Vangie Saludares
70. Peps Regalado San Gabriel
71. Natie Sanchez
72. Col Sanchez' Children
73. Evelyn Sangueza
74. Gerard and Violy Santuico
75. Jowee Sarmenta & family
76. Al See
77. Meg Simpson & the late Ron Simpson
78. NCC Sydney Reunion Raffle
79. NCC Sydney Reunion Surplus
80. Gerry Tagunicar
81. Leonora Pacheco Tamoro
82. Bella Tan
83. Ramon Tanafranca
84. Thelma & Jun Tiongson
85. Abe and Didi Tomas
86. Cynthia A Topacio
87. Myra Florendo Van Vactor
88. Liza Villagonzalo
89. Ley Villamor
90. Boy and Nikki Villanueva
91. Rolly (Govs) Villanueva
92. Sherill (Gov's daughter) Villanueva
93. Joey Yap

School Profile

Lubang Integrated School

• Information on Lubang: [2]
• Location: Barangay Araw at Bituin Lubang, Philippines
• Total Number of Students in the School: 603
• Number of Students who will participate in the program: 93
• Number of Teachers participating: 7
• Number of computers in the classroom: 2
• Internet Connection: Wired, Broadband

Collaborating Members and Institutions (pls. add additional information)

• Ryan Letada: eKindling, Philippines
• Harvy Viray: University of the Philippines
• Tessa Yuvienco: Headway School
• Joel Yuvienco: Miriam College, Asian University Digital Resource Network
• Mitch Seaton: OLPC Friends (Sydney, Australia)
• OLPC-New Zealand
• Cherry Withers: Squeakland/eKindling, USA
• Meg Simpson: Representative of current and former employees of the National Computer Center.
• Col. Sanchez: Mayor of Lubang
• Marife Mago: eKindling, OLPC-NYC, USA

Project Checklist

• Initial Deployment Checklist: Done by Mitch Seaton, Meg Simpson & Col. Sanchez. Date: 8/26/2009
• Lubang Consultation Visit: Ryan Letada, Tessa Yuvienco & Harvy Viray. Date: 11/24/2009-11/26/2009
• Curriculum Integration Development and Moodle Set-up
• Teacher Training Program

5-day Teacher Training Schedule

First Day

Morning

Participants:

Class A (Teachers as participants, Instructor: Tessa Yuvienco)

Estimated Time: 2 hours

I. Discover

1. Welcome Participants
2. History/Background of Project (Video)
3. Facilitators and Participants Introduction
4. Leveling/Setting of expectations (K-W-L worksheet)
5. Overview of the course and its framework
6. Formulation/Negotiation of Realistic/Achievable Goals

II. Disclose

  * Participant's Inventory of Learning Styles
  * Show-and-Tell of Students' Learning Styles and Teaching Methodologies
  * Revisit of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
  * Focus on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Class B (Hardware Support Team & Children, Instructor: Cherry Withers)

  * NAND Blasting to update the Sugar Firmware
  * Running of Diagnostics
  * Dis-assembly/Assembly of an XO 1.0
  * Hardware Comparison of XO 1.0 and XO 1.5
  * Wifi Trouble Shooting

Afternoon Participants: Everyone Instructor: Cherry Withers

a) Hardware Introduction

   * Opening, closing, “ears”
   * eBook format
   * Starting / shut down
   * Screen rotate
   * Volume and Brightness
   * Trouble shooting Restarting if in difficulty
   * Hard (forced) reboots
   * Going in/out of sleep mode
   * Charging and battery monitoring
   * Basic Troubleshooting: jumpy cursor, power issues

b) Sugar Environment Introduction

   * The 4 Views of the Frame
   * Different Views of Activities
   * Customizing via the Control Panel
   * Functions
   * Sharing
   * Inviting
   * Intro to the Journal
   * Help activity

c) How to reinstall the laptop operating system and activities with a prepared flash drive 2nd Day Morning

   * Finding and connecting to access points
   * Checking connection status via Frame view
   * Starting and coordinating a shared activity
   * Joining a shared activity: Use Chat
   * Inviting someone

Afternoon

   * Copying files to/from Journal with flash drive
   * Awareness of memory, checking memory usage
   * Renaming and deleting files in journal
   * Using Public Internet: cautionary use, what is open source
   * Accessing the OLPC wiki laptop activities
   * and collections pages from Browse

3rd Day (Activities and Curriculum Integration) Instructor: Cherry Withers Morning

   * Speak
   * Paint
   * Measure
   * Chat
   * Memorize

  1.  built-in games
  2.  building games

   * Stopwatch, Ruler
   * Clockgame
   * TamTamMini (maybe)
   * Calculate
   * Poll
   * Record: 

  1. Take a video introduction, name the video
  2. Take "All about Me" photos, name each file

   * Write

  1. Incorporate the photos taken from the Record Activity
  2. Writing text, Editing Text
  3. Shared Editing (Illustrate group collaboration on editing)

Afternoon

   * Finding and downloading other activities

4th Day Morning

   * Introduction to Etoys
         o - Saving and Opening projects
         o - Paint Tool
         o - Book: Inserting Pictures, Inserting pages and text
   * Accessing projects by other people and running the projects

Afternoon Instructor: Hamilton Chua

  1. Introduction to the XS. What is it ? How does it help you ?
         * Central storage
         * Collaboration
         * Management
  2. Registering your XO Laptop
         * how to register an xo
         * logging in
         * troubleshooting registration
  3. Your Moodle Profile page
         * Filling up profile information
         * Backup Tab, briefly describe how backups work

5th Day Instructor: Hamilton Chua

  1. Understanding Roles
  2. Customizing a course
         * adding resources
         * adding activities
         * customize aspects of the course
  3. Grouping Students
  4. Adding a lesson
  5. Adding an exam Restoring from a backup
  6. When a laptop gets lost
         * where's the data ?
         * restoring into a new laptop
         * linking users

Location

• Accessibility of the School from Metro Manila: 30mins. by Plane, 7 hours by ship

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