User:Lauren: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:05, 19 June 2007

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

Guidelines for activity development (cf. OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines).
- In progress (and should get a name change): Educational activity guidelines

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
- http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html
Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
- Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)

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)

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