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Music : Our music collections are growing : this week the full 9GB of sound samples from the Boulanger collection can be found on dev.laptop.org. And Andriani organized a call with Charlotte Landrum, director of the Gardner museum podcast series, which will be contributing their |
Music : Our music collections are growing : this week the full 9GB of sound samples from the Boulanger collection can be found on dev.laptop.org. And Andriani organized a call with Charlotte Landrum, director of the [http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/library.asp Isabella Stewart Gardner museum podcast series], which will be contributing their live concert recordings (already available online) in some form for use by our schools. |
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Peter Johannsen - showed the XO at a workshop (the National Association of Independent Schools conference in NYC), picked up 2 new collaborators. Has some finished videos of kids working with XOs and using the various activities, which he plans to send early next week. (Whitney, the recently volunter helping the Kliptown trial, found OLPC through Peter) |
Peter Johannsen - showed the XO at a workshop (the National Association of Independent Schools conference in NYC), picked up 2 new collaborators. Has some finished videos of kids working with XOs and using the various activities, which he plans to send early next week. (Whitney, the recently volunter helping the Kliptown trial, found OLPC through Peter) |
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* [http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/35/32Q81/index.xml?section=t%20opstories laptop music] @ Princeton |
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* [http://www.olpcatduke.com/search?updated-max=2008-01-28T21%3A12%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=7 OLPC at Duke] |
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* [http://mapmonde.org/ Mapmonde] at LAMAP (and meeting w/Raynald in Peru) |
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* More on [http://nostarch.com/blog/?p=104#comments Open Access] @ harvard |
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Revision as of 00:33, 29 February 2008
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the week in review: Week 9, 2008* |
notes
Wikireader : A separate list was started for wikireader discussions this week. (wikireader@lists.laptop.org) Guillaume Duhamel and Emmanuel Engelhart from Linterweb have an alpha Firefox extension for bundling a set of wiki articles and are extending this to work with their offline Kiwix search tools.
- Erik Zachte has tools for making compact Tomeraider collections that deal intelligently with images.
Health : Chris Leonard, a local microbiologist, is organizing material related to animals and agriculture.
- He and his wife are both editors and writers, and he has been working with a few people on an index for an animal health collection.
Music : Our music collections are growing : this week the full 9GB of sound samples from the Boulanger collection can be found on dev.laptop.org. And Andriani organized a call with Charlotte Landrum, director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum podcast series, which will be contributing their live concert recordings (already available online) in some form for use by our schools.
Peter Johannsen - showed the XO at a workshop (the National Association of Independent Schools conference in NYC), picked up 2 new collaborators. Has some finished videos of kids working with XOs and using the various activities, which he plans to send early next week. (Whitney, the recently volunter helping the Kliptown trial, found OLPC through Peter)
links
- laptop music @ Princeton
- OLPC at Duke
- Mapmonde at LAMAP (and meeting w/Raynald in Peru)
- More on Open Access @ harvard