Talk:Laptop demonstrations

I am folding content from the Presentations page in here.--Mokurai 02:03, 8 April 2007 (EDT)

Calendar

At some point it will become clumsy to handle requests for demos and presentations here in the Wiki. We will need some other software to handle contacts, requests, scheduling, funding, and whatever else turns out to be important. Suggestions, please. A mailing list with calendar functions? Drupal? Would OLPC host it?--Mokurai 02:03, 8 April 2007 (EDT)

Drupal + civicrm ?--Hummingbird20:36, 13 April 2007

Geographic Organization

I think demos would be a great way to draw attention and support... but if we are going to add to this list all possible requests and suggestion about conferences, the list will probably lose focus and utility.

A possibility is to list conferences in a sub-page for each country and then be aggregated in the main article page. That way, local people can focus on their area and people that are travelling somewhere can check by destination...--Xavi 23:31, 3 February 2007 (EST)

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I think a kind of "speakers bureau" would be useful, listing people who are willing to talk about OLPC and where they are located. -- Ian Bicking 23:08, 4 April 2007 (EDT)

Sounds good! I was about to jump into the idea (read, make a section for it) but faced the following issues on how to organize it:

• • speaker level (guru, technical, general, etc)
  • geography (by state, country, city) ?
  • availability (calendar)

any suggestion/idea on how to deal with them? It would be nice to have also a 'list of cities' around the globe where XO's have been delivered... --Xavi 23:19, 4 April 2007 (EDT)

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I think categorized by country, except the US which should be subdivided by region as well (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West). Or countries can just subdivide when they get a lot of speakers.

People can note availability if they have very limited availability, but I don't think it would be very helpful; for instance, if I'm going to be someplace for a week, it's unlikely that someone in that place will notice this page at just the right time -- I'll probably have to reach out to people there directly. Generally it's just easiest to just coordinate directly with someone. And instead of speaker level, perhaps just general role (programmer and educator being the most prominent distinction). -- Ian Bicking 11:14, 5 April 2007 (EDT)

Presentations for US teachers

I'm not sure if this is the correct page to put this question/comment. But here is my viewpoint on presentations: I am a teacher of Special Education students with severe disabilities. All the teachers in our state are required to get 60 hours of "in-service" training each year. At least six hours of that training have to be in technology. All states do similar requirements for continuing education. I believe that demonstrations of the XO computer and explanation of the program would be very good for such training purposes. I would love to get involved with such if and when a program of the kind would be started. Ideally, you would gather a few teachers from each state and invite them to a workshop for a day or two of training. Then they would go back to their states and present workshops to other teachers and spread the word about the program, and get school districts in the US interested in the program. I have ordered one of the computers through the G1,G1 program. I plan to take it to school and show it to every teacher in my district and do a little unoficial promoting of the program. I will let my students work with the computer, so that I can see how it works with special needs students. I only wish that I could have more than one to work with. I am planing some workshops for this summer on using computers with special needs students. I will take my XO with me when I do the workshops this summer and show it as an extra bit in my presentations. I will be using photos and video of my students working with our class computers and I will add a few photos and video of them using the XO. It will be interesting to see how they like the XO and if it is easier, or harder for them to use than a "regular" computer, and which they prefer.