User:Lauren

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EDU Grades: University Subjects: Subject Literature School: City University of New York Country: USA

About me

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

See also:

• Very old web page.
• Official work page and bio.

Projects

OLPC Summer Blog

Did you know? There's a blog for the OLPC Cambridge office: http://olpc-cambridge.blogspot.com!

To become a contributor (which you all should do), send a message with your preferred email address to: lauren AT laptop DOT org and I'll add you to the list.

Week of 7/30

Library Automation

In .js:

• Add in third-level menu
• Make/use bundle obj
• Decide on alphabetization/ordering scheme
  • Prob defaults, then alphabetized customized ones
• Do default values for all fields:
  • category_icon: should be "/library/[icon]". Otherwise, is "/images/[category_class].png". Also set image path.
  • category_class: should get defaults from table. Also write function to check for new ones.
  • subcategory: write fxn to assign subcat = cat if left blank.
  • class: should be category class if left blank.

In .py:

• DONE: Update script to reflect new .info fields
• Maybe make cat/subcat/bundle objs instead of flat file

In .info:

• DONE: Clarify icon path reqs
• DONE: Explain category class field (include table of fields on wiki)
• DONE: Note defaults for all fields

Overall:

• Write to l10n list abt localization issues
• Implement l10n
• Implement css support
• Ditto for xml
• DONE: Install git on bantha
• Get access from home
• Make xol files for current library content.

Publishers

• Write to Macmillan, McG-H abt content matrices
• Respond to Macmillan abt other issues

Other orgs

• Follow up with:
  • DONE: (emailed) Make
  • DONE: (met) Burda
  • DONE: (met) WWW
    • Make/send poll activity
  • DONE: (called) Majesco
    • Send examples to Ken

Licenses

• DONE: Finish licenses

Our Stories

• Write to DC about Brazil contacts
• DONE:Monday call
• Review/incorporate CGM notes
• Do Bug Blitz activity, then
• Send back to EOW Found + Thailand. Also,
• Introduce Thailand + EOWF
• Do MMM poll-builder activity.

Educators Portal

• Work on it

Blog

• One blog post per day +
• page on wiki for how to make a blog post/join the blog +
• sidebar on blog for same.

Wikimania

• Welcome/participate web page for XOs being taken to Wikimania, including links to easy-to-contribute-to projects. In progress: Wikimania

Administrivia

• Respond to wiki talk
• DONE:Respond to email

Activating Educators

Moved to Activating educators

Related:

• Re-org of:
  • Educational content ideas
  • Educational activity ideas
  • Contributing content
• Wiki template and/or form for content submission
  • In progress: Template:content submission

Educational Activity Guidelines

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

Organizing organizing

Moved to Organizing organizing

Activity status

• Status template for OLPCWiki: Template:status box; example: TamTam.
• Contact Activity builders
• List of Activities
  • In base or additional?
  • Currently playable?

Deprecated:

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
  • 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)

Ideas for lowercase "a" activity development

• 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)