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=Keeping it Real: Deployment Challenges and Outcomes=
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* SF's [http://olpcSF.org/summit Global Community Summit 2012] Oct 19-21 and implementers' [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_SF_2012 San Francisco Sugarcamp++] Oct 22-24 -- all are invited to both events!
* [http://www.drupal.ceibaljam.org/?q=edujam2012 EduJAM! 2012] Montevideo, Uruguay in early May approx May 11-12
* [http://ceibaljam.org/?q=edujam2012 EduJAM!] [http://edujam2012.blogspot.com/ 2012] Montevideo, Uruguay, May 11-12 for Spanish-speakers / Latin Americans especially
* [http://j.mp/xomanual OLPC/Sugar Doc Sprint (Apr 6-10)] freshening up our core http://laptop.org/manual and Sugar's Help Activity. Bonus: Vid Tutorial workshop for those who arrive early with learning strategies or a curricular arc around their favorite Sugar Activity!
* [http://j.mp/xomanual OLPC/Sugar Doc Sprint (Apr 6-10, 2012)] freshening up our core http://laptop.org/manual and Sugar's Help Activity. Bonus: Video Tutorial workshop for those who arrive early with learning strategies - eg. a "curricular arc" showcasing the learning power of their favorite Sugar Activity!
* [http://olpcSF.org OLPC San Francisco Bay Area] hosted another major/global community summit Oct 21-23, 2011 immediately following the Oct 16-20 Open Source [http://sites.google.com/site/docsprintsummit/ Doc Sprint Summit] held at Google's Googleplex Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Followed by San Francisco's great-looking Nov 1-2 conference [http://www.newgameconf.com New Game, for HTML5 game developers,] recommended by the [http://groups.google.com/group/tinygames TinyGames] educational games community.
* [http://olpcSF.org OLPC San Francisco Bay Area] hosted another major/global community summit Oct 21-23, 2011 immediately following the Oct 16-20 Open Source [http://sites.google.com/site/docsprintsummit/ Doc Sprint Summit] held at Google's Googleplex Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Followed by San Francisco's great-looking Nov 1-2 conference [http://www.newgameconf.com New Game, for HTML5 game developers,] recommended by the [http://groups.google.com/group/tinygames TinyGames] educational games community.
* [http://olpc-france.org OLPC France] hosted a Europe-wide [http://fr.amiando.com/olpcfrance-sugarcamp2011.html Sugar Camp Sept 9-11, 2011] in Paris ([http://olpc-france.org/blog/ blog])
* [http://olpc-france.org OLPC France] hosted a Europe-wide [http://fr.amiando.com/olpcfrance-sugarcamp2011.html Sugar Camp Sept 9-11, 2011] in Paris ([http://olpc-france.org/blog/ blog])
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*Currently unavailable: Mexico's Mochilla Digital workshops produced by TelMex / Carlos Slim's foundation : Extensive coverage of Constructionism, Collaborative Learning, and Project Based Learning (in Spanish). Hope to hava a new link soon.<br>
*Currently unavailable: Mexico's Mochilla Digital workshops produced by TelMex / Carlos Slim's foundation : Extensive coverage of Constructionism, Collaborative Learning, and Project Based Learning (in Spanish). Hope to hava a new link soon.<br>
*[[Educational content ideas]]
*[[Educational content ideas]]
*[[User:Ndoiron/Out_Of_The_Box|Out of the Box]] mapmaking, sensor & [[User:Ndoiron/Content|content ideas]] from Nick Doiron's OLPC experiences in [http://olpcMAP.net?go=uganda Uganda], [http://olpcMAP.net?go=uruguay Uruguay/Ceibal], [http://olpcMAP.net?go=haiti Haiti] and remotely helping [http://olpcMAP.net?go=madagascar Madagascar].
*[http://vimeo.com/user3339848/videos Learning videos for almost 30 Sugar Activities] from the Digital Literacy Project.
*See the [[ALEARN_Network#Reading_and_thinking|Reading & Thinking]] section of the ALEARN Network (small deployment alliance) for our philosophies of learning, on Scratch Coding Clubs in Virginia (UK too?) etc!


===[[Manuals]], Handbooks and User Guides===
===[[Manuals]], Handbooks and User Guides===
*Organized listing of the [[Manuals|Most-Known OLPC Manuals]]
*<b>Extensive [[Recursos en espanol|Spanish Resources]]</b> sorted by Activity and Country (in Spanish!)<br>
*<b>Extensive [[Recursos en espanol|Spanish Resources]]</b> sorted by Activity and Country (in Spanish!)<br>
*[http://www.gc4ll.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/OLPC_booklet_v0_5.pdf One Laptop per Rwandese Child] (NEW 16-page PDF guide)
*[http://www.gc4ll.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/OLPC_booklet_v0_5.pdf One Laptop per Rwandese Child] (NEW 16-page PDF guide)
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[[File:Olpc-countries-all.jpg|300px|thumb|XO concentration in 2010]]
[[File:Olpc-countries-all.jpg|300px|thumb|XO concentration in 2010]]


*Nothing beats http://olpcMAP.net in showing the diversity of deployments worldwide!
*[[Deployments|OLPC deployments and status]]
*[[Deployments|OLPC deployments and status]]
*[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places Deployment teams and contact points] in the world<br> (Sugar Labs listing)
*[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places Deployment teams and contact points] in the world<br> (Sugar Labs listing)

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Keeping it Real: Deployment Challenges and Outcomes

Glimpses of OLPC Deployments

Check more at OLPC Flickr and sorted by Country/Deployment

Check more at OLPCorps Flickr and sorted by Country/Deployment

Take a moment to think about Why you might want to help, and some of the Core Principles we favor in making things happen...

Plan for the Worst; Prepare for the Best

Preparation for Deployment (anecdoted by real-life experiences)

Sugar and XO: Technical Preparation

Cost estimation for deployments

Train the Trainer: How teachers/educators make change

Manuals, Handbooks and User Guides

Maps: Deployments & Community

XO concentration in 2010

Community News

OLPC Deployment Experiences

VERY ROUGH DRAFT, NEW: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/class-acts/_v/1.0/introduction/ OLD: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ClassActs (HTML), http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/classacts-en-2010.11.29-23.54.00.pdf (92 pages, 12.85MB). Formerly at: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ClassActs/ClassActs.pdf (~100 pages / 100+ MB)

BROADER COLLECTION OF: Diverse Public Presentations

2010

Kenya Arid zone Primary School deployment mission starting early 2010:

OLPC Workshop for Education Officers in Tuvalu January 21-22, 2010 (87p, 1.21MB)

ClassActs story about Maroantsetra, Madagascar by Sameer Verma, prepared as part of an assignment by students at San Francisco State University

Columbus School for Girls Service Learning Project Blog Columbus School for Girls distribution to three schools in St. John, May 2010.

2009

Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post, and here!)

"Proyecto Flor de Ceibo" (Uruguay's March 2009 report) (in Spanish)

Very up-to-date OLPC Nauru reportage and May 2009 29-page DRAFT REPORT File:Leeming-Nauru-OLPC-Apr-May-2009-Report (draft 1).pdf fostered by David Leeming. (video)

See also his (1) OLPC Solomon Islands work (2) Teacher tips/XS/Solar summary and (3) Community Radio idea!

DRAFT FLIER/CHAPTER File:XOsflyer3.pdf by Scott Carollo of Gallaudet Univ Art Dept, with help from Kevin Cole and Caryl Bigenho's original writeup on Pakistan.

DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #2 (using Scribus, SVerma): File:Story-layout-test-sverma.pdf with his graphics materials File:Booksprint-layout-stuff-by-sverma.zip

DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #3 (JGay): File:Book-draft-layout-by-jgay.pdf

DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #4: 1000-XO Deployment Story in File:Dujiangyan-Sichuan-China.pdf by OLPC Asia / Hong Kong (18-page PDF, June 2009)

XOs in El Salvador: A community deployment in Chalatenango (Presentation to http://OLPCLearningClub.org DC by Jeff Elkner, Sept 19th 2009). Also available in PDF: File:XOs in El Salvador.pdf

Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? Includes video. Summary by Michael Trucano, World Bank's Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist. Discussing Miguel Brechner's 19-page slide presentation "One Laptop per Child and per Teacher" here: File:2162969-uruguay-plan-ceibal.pdf

Beth Santos' impressive Sao Tome deployment presentation from Dec 30, 2009: File:Olpc-in-sao-joao--sao-tome.pdf (1.26MB) and blog summary

December 2009's Babson College project report on Strategies for Sugar deployments in US schools: report (66 pages, 412KB), presentation (35 pages, 655KB)

Heroic Waveplace/OLPC deployment stories in Nicaragua: Excellent summary of their approach, whose structure is likely evolving for their post-earthquake work in Haiti.

Translation Success Story! (english auto-translation) in French

30 small African deployments(map) by OLPCorps: a new student-based, grassroots OLPC initiative with 100 XOs, Hardware, $10K stipend, 10-day training in Kigali, Rwanda, and an entire summer in an African country of your choice.

2008

Final Report Evaluation of OLPC in Solomon Islands (PDF)

2007

"Got Implementation?" Nepal article from Jan 2007 incl fun logo!


Please add other resources, with links if possible, to the above list. Please feel free to add comments about any of these resources if you wish. Additionally, if you feel the resource has potential material to include in a future instructional DVD for new XO users, please mark the resource "+DVD."