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**In progress: [[Template:content submission]]
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===Info/Volunteer Ops for Educations===
===Info/Volunteer Ops for Educators===
In terms of audience...
*[[Educators]]

*Blog/discussion/collaboration ops?
1. Educators: teachers currently in the field and those about to receive XOs (along w/ OLPC staff and supporting orgs)
*[[XO Teachers]]

*Emphasis: support, self-documentation, journaling/blogging, collaboration and exchange.
*To be migrated to educator wiki: [[XO Teachers]]
*Tutorials for teachers, incl.
**MediaWiki training (take from Globaloria site)
**How to use activities
**How to make activities
*Teacher Activity, might incl.
**
*Syndicated country/pilot blogs
*Personal user page, incl.
**Instructions for getting started
**Photo
**Location/affiliation
**Answers to questions

2. Developers: teachers who want to volunteer/create lesson plans/activities.

*Need to develop [[Educators]]
*Develop companion repository/"Educational Content Management" site. Features incl:
**Activity/lesson template
**Rating system
**Discussion/feedback system
**Search/sort/tag by subject, lesson type,
**Example activities for Activities incl. in base install
*[[Educational activity guidelines]]]. Principles incl.
**Constructionism
**Collaboration
**Iteration
**"View Source"
**Example activities from MMM?
*Lesson Plan Jam

In terms of activities...

1. Digital [[Activities]]
1a. Digital Activities w/ corresponding physical activity

2. Activities that expand/enhance existing exercise


===Lowercase "a" activity development===
===Lowercase "a" activity development===

Revision as of 17:02, 5 June 2007

About me

Hi! I'm Lauren! I'm here for the summer! And here is a picture that I took with my XO:

Lauren and tree

See also:

Projects

How-tos

  • Ideas for how-tos:
    • Laptops
      • What are they?
      • What are the main components
      • Keyboard and touchpad
      • Antennas and wireless network
      • Taking care of your laptop
      • What do you do when something goes wrong?
    • Starting to use them
      • Applications
      • Mesh and friends
      • Username
      • A browser and the internet
      • Google and finding content
      • Email and creating a gmail account
      • Wiki for kids?
    • Safety
      • Handling power
    • Resources
      • OLPC's website
      • Wikipedia
      • Dictionary (Marriam Webster)
      • Google's image search
  • Good how-to how-tos
  • Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
    • Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)

Clear/accurate Activity status

Content ideas/submission

Info/Volunteer Ops for Educators

In terms of audience...

1. Educators: teachers currently in the field and those about to receive XOs (along w/ OLPC staff and supporting orgs)

  • Emphasis: support, self-documentation, journaling/blogging, collaboration and exchange.
  • To be migrated to educator wiki: XO Teachers
  • Tutorials for teachers, incl.
    • MediaWiki training (take from Globaloria site)
    • How to use activities
    • How to make activities
  • Teacher Activity, might incl.
  • Syndicated country/pilot blogs
  • Personal user page, incl.
    • Instructions for getting started
    • Photo
    • Location/affiliation
    • Answers to questions

2. Developers: teachers who want to volunteer/create lesson plans/activities.

  • Need to develop Educators
  • Develop companion repository/"Educational Content Management" site. Features incl:
    • Activity/lesson template
    • Rating system
    • Discussion/feedback system
    • Search/sort/tag by subject, lesson type,
    • Example activities for Activities incl. in base install
  • Educational activity guidelines]. Principles incl.
    • Constructionism
    • Collaboration
    • Iteration
    • "View Source"
    • Example activities from MMM?
  • Lesson Plan Jam

In terms of activities...

1. Digital Activities 1a. Digital Activities w/ corresponding physical activity

2. Activities that expand/enhance existing exercise

Lowercase "a" activity development

  • Guidelines for activity development (cf. OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines).
  • List of resources available
    • Base Activities/content
    • Additional Activities/content
    • Online resources/content repository
  • Ideas for projects/activites
  • How to adapt your existing activity/curriculum/lesson for use w/ XO.
  • How to create an activity for use w/ XO.
    • Sample activities
    • Links to models for activity creation/development (cf. three x's).
    • Conceptual templates for types of activites (research, games, etc).
  • Specific projects
    • Storytelling/Center for Digital Storytelling
      • Info abt. storytelling opportunities
        • Available Activties
        • Relevant resources
        • Examples we like
    • Mapping (Baktiar)
    • Language instruction
      • Avallain
      • Individs (Tim VanSlyke)

Ideas for volunteering/organizing

Moved to organizing organizing