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To offer your content to the One Laptop per Child project, or to find out about running a laptop exercise in your classroom, please write to <tt>iste@laptop.org</tt>. |
To offer your content to the One Laptop per Child project, or to find out about running a laptop exercise in your classroom, please write to <tt>iste@laptop.org</tt>. |
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If you have suggestions for educational content that you think somebody should develop, but '''does not yet exist''' in a suitable form, please add them to the '''[[Educational content ideas]]''' page. |
If you have suggestions for educational content that you think somebody should develop, but '''does not yet exist''' in a suitable form, please add them to the '''[[Educational content ideas]]''' page. For content which already exists and whose owners have already donated it to the OLPC project, see [[Publishers]]. |
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== Stories == |
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* [http://www.icdlbooks.org The International Children's Digital Library] (1000 books in a few languages, mainly English) |
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* [http://www.logoslibrary.eu/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.main_bimbi?lang=en Logos children's library] |
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** Aesop, Grimm, Anderson |
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** Cultural works and epics : Homer, Edas |
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== Reference works == |
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* [http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.kdic.home?lang=en Logos childrens' dictionary] |
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===Interesting Data Sets=== |
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;Miscfiles:http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/miscfiles.html |
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(Or localized alternatives) |
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* connectives (prepositions, pronouns, and the like) |
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* web2- Webster's Second International English wordlist |
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* web2a- Webster's Second Internations appendix english wordlist |
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* propernames- some common proper names |
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* airport- list of three letter codes for some major airports |
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* birthtoken- traditional stone and flower for each month |
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* inter.phone- international country telephone codes |
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* cities.dat- geographic coordinates of many major cities |
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* postal.codes- postal codes for US and Mexican states and |
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* languages- two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639 |
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* currency- currency abbreviations and names |
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* countries- country abbreviations and names and capital cities |
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* jargon.html- The Jargon file (same as the _Hacker's_Dictionary_) |
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* us-constitution- The Constitution of the United States of America |
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* us-declaration- The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies |
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;Project Gutenberg Data: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/8 |
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=== Dictionaries === |
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;List of Words in Spanish: http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~coes/espell_leame/espell_leame.html |
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Grady Ward's dictionaries: |
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* Moby Hyphenation List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3204 |
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* Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3206 |
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* Moby Part of Speech List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3203 |
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* Moby Pronunciation List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3205 |
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* Moby Thesaurus List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3202 |
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* Moby Word Lists (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3201 |
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* The [http://www.logosdictionary.org/ Logos multilingual dictionary], a GFDL dictionary in 200+ languages. |
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* The [http://kalyan97.googlepages.com/indicfamilyoflanguages Indic Family of Languages] project |
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*: ''I am thrilled by this project. I make available my multi-lingual comparative dictionary for over 25 ancient languages with hundreds of thousands of words for use on the laptop. I also offer this to google for use since google supports the one laptop per child project. Congratulations, Nicholas Negroponte and his team for initiating this project. Best wishes for a successful launch.'' |
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*: -- S. kalyanaraman, Ph.d. Sarasvati Research Centre, Srinagar Colony, Chennai 600015 kalyan97 at gmail.com |
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* African Language Bilingual (with English) Dictionaries - Hausa, Akan, Ewe (West Africa)- from kasahorow.com |
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=== Encyclopedias and Almanacs === |
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* Wikipedia (and subsets of it) |
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** The [http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/education-cd.htm Wikipedia Schools CD] (2006 articles) |
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** The [[One encyclopedia per child]] project to design a concise snapshot of Wikipedia content |
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* Other encyclopedia projects... |
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=== Atlases and Maps === |
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* The [https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html 2006 CIA World Factbook] is a superb atlas and reference document for statistics of every country in the world. It also includes appendices of International Organizations and Groups, Selected International Environmental Agreements, Weights and Measures, and more. The Zip file of its contents (including GIF but not PDF maps) is only 18.8 MB, and should compress a bit smaller using a bzip2 or 7zip. It is public domain. |
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== Texts and instructional material == |
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Including illustrations -- graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, &c. |
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=== Music and Mathematics === |
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'''Logo Challenges''' |
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*[http://mondragon.angeltowns.net/paradiso/Construcciones.html Logo Challenges]. I created this set of Logo challenges. Maybe the project will find it valuable. |
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'''Algebra 1 in Simple English''' is a project in two parts |
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*At [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OLPC_-_Algebra_1_in_Simple_English/ OLPC_-_Algebra_1_in_Simple_English/ ] we are developing content, asking algebra teachers to contribute |
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**problems and exercises, |
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**tutorial example problems |
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**test questions |
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**vocabulary in simple english |
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**and links to practice games. |
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*At [http://www.HSTutorials.net/ www.HSTutorials.net/] we're developing the student-user interface. We want to have the finished content on another site that is not a wiki, since having your math book change while you're in the middle of a problem set would NOT be helpful. |
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'''As of yet unnamed Logo book''' |
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* I am working on an enhanced ebook about programming and math using Logo. It is not being written in a wiki way, but it will soon be possible for OLPC participants and the public to offer feedback during the writing process. It is about half completed, and the first draft will be online shortly. [[User:Lethe|Lethe]] |
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=== Language learning === |
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Reading, spelling, writing; reading comprehension, from alphabets to serious textual analysis. Including sounds, and images -- pronunciations, songs with lyrics, fonts. Also including: first languages, second and further languages, advanced language : literature and poetry. |
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I am the autor of a specialized "manual" for the 1. year of studies of French as Second Foreign language. It has only 7.5 Mb, is written in HTML, with some 60 photos. I would like to join that to the OLPC. The manual is divided in 4 modules, each modules is made of 4 lessons, each lesson divided in 6 parts: lecture, foreign expressions, questions, grammar, exercices and documents. There should be 4 manuals (one for each year) - I am now working on the second one. The modules are for this first book: 1/ L'aérotrain, 2/ Les scanners, 3/ La photographie numérique, 4/ L'électricité (with a last part named: "Paris, Ville Lumiere") |
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Sincerily yours: |
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Horváth-Militicsi Attila, prof. agrégé |
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Narodnog fronta 77/III |
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21000 NOVI SAD |
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Serbia |
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Email: 6hunyadi@eunet.yu |
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=== Visual arts === |
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=== Other Science and Humanities === |
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[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior Wikijunior Project] |
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== Images == |
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'''General''' |
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* [http://www.fromoldbooks.org Images from old books] all copyright free |
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* [http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons] - 500,000 freely licensed images, sound, and video files |
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Also including : Photographs of the world, images of people, other works of art, sketches, diagrams, blueprints. |
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== Media == |
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''Recordings, compositions, from Nature, &c; Video from the world; of performances; animations'' |
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== Software and more == |
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'''General education''' |
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* GCompris educational software package : ''I am the author of the education software '''[[GCompris]]''' (for children from 2 to 10). In fact, many activities are useful for first users whatever their age. Of course, GCompris is free software released under the [[GPL]]. It is developed and maintained by a small community. I would like to know if GCompris makes sense for the OLPC project. If so, I will make the effort to adapt it in order to suit the OLPC platform. |
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*: ''I wish the best to your project. Regards, Bruno Coudoin'' |
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* Take a look at the project [[OLPCities]] |
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== File formats == |
== File formats == |
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Revision as of 04:09, 12 October 2006
Sharing learning materials through OLPC
The One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) is gathering quality educational content for distribution around the world to the children who will be using the OLPC laptop computers. OLPC is extending a call for content creators, publishers, and archivists to suggest educational material for inclusion in our digital library network. We are particularly interested in materials that are produced specially for children and teachers, that are available in many languages, and that are available under a free content license. Materials can include:
- Texts – stories and poems; textbooks, workbooks, how-tos and lab manuals;
- Reference works – encyclopedias, dictionaries, maps and atlases;
- Images – symbols and fonts, blueprints, sketches, photographs and art;
- Multimedia content – animations, audio books, songs and audio recordings, videos;
- Software – games, tools, scripts, simulations, self-assessments and interactive tools
All material installed on the laptops will be available under a free license, such as the GNU General Public License or the Creative Commons Attribution license. Materials under other licenses may be included in school and regional libraries.
To offer your content to the One Laptop per Child project, or to find out about running a laptop exercise in your classroom, please write to iste@laptop.org.
If you have suggestions for educational content that you think somebody should develop, but does not yet exist in a suitable form, please add them to the Educational content ideas page. For content which already exists and whose owners have already donated it to the OLPC project, see Publishers.
File formats
The material above needs to be distributed in file formats that support the OLPC goals. In particular, they must be unencumbered formats (not requiring patent licensing or other restrictions), and they must take relatively little space (so compressed formats are valuable). Document formats like HTML, PDF, and OpenDocument should be encouraged.
See Choosing image formats for more about image formats, such as PNG and SVG. Ogg is valuable for audio.
More about OLPC
For more information about the project, see the overview of OLPC and list of current events on this site. There is also a static website with background information at www.laptop.org.