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== [[Open Jams]] == |
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An Open Jam, or OJ for short is a public meeting for people who want to get involved with the OLPC project. Each meeting should have a goal of content or code or contacts. The overarching goal of the project should be helping people learn in a way that will enable them to continue to be involved in the OLPC project |
An Open Jam, or OJ for short is a public meeting for people who want to get involved with the OLPC project. Each meeting should have a goal of content or code or contacts. The overarching goal of the project should be helping people learn in a way that will enable them to continue to be involved in the OLPC project. |
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We have been running a [[Boston_Saturday_OJ]] from 2-6 at 1CC, and recently moved it to the MIT Museum, and changed the time from 2-5. We would love for anyone to come. Please send me an email and let me know if you are coming. |
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== [[Bilingual Cultural Exchange]] == |
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The bilingual cultural exchange program connects classrooms with XO's with college and high school students who are from a different part of the world. The goal is to promote (as the name of the project suggests) a bilingual cultural exchange in the form of emails about each individual's respective communities. |
The bilingual cultural exchange program connects classrooms with XO's with college and high school students who are from a different part of the world. The goal is to promote (as the name of the project suggests) a bilingual cultural exchange in the form of emails about each individual's respective communities. |
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I am trying to add more structure to the wiki. I am working on implementing Semantic Media Wiki, and Semantic forms to facilitate this task. |
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The other side of this problem involves areas of information where questions could be generated by a computer, as in areas of math, and language learning. Another goal would be to make the standard file type work to creating random questions. |
The other side of this problem involves areas of information where questions could be generated by a computer, as in areas of math, and language learning. Another goal would be to make the standard file type work to creating random questions. |
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== [[Teacher Chats on IRC]]== |
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The IRC room #OLPCeducation is to be used for education discussions relating to the use of XOs. There will be monthly (and depending on demand possibly more frequent, see [[Teacher Chats on IRC]]) chats on IRC to talk about recent technical problems, and solutions, and successful educational exercises with the XO's, and feature or content requests. |
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I am working on getting Kuku running on the newest XO build. Mainly to learn about how activities work on the XO. |
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Revision as of 03:11, 18 July 2008
I am Francesca Slade, a Yale undergraduate is interning at OLPC this summer. My email is firstname.lastname [at] yale.edu. My cell phone number is (917) 842 6216. I am involved in working on lots of projects described below. To find a list of current work please look at My weekly updates.
Also see /questions for a SMWiki wishlist
Open Jams
An Open Jam, or OJ for short is a public meeting for people who want to get involved with the OLPC project. Each meeting should have a goal of content or code or contacts. The overarching goal of the project should be helping people learn in a way that will enable them to continue to be involved in the OLPC project.
We have been running a Boston_Saturday_OJ from 2-6 at 1CC, and recently moved it to the MIT Museum, and changed the time from 2-5. We would love for anyone to come. Please send me an email and let me know if you are coming.
Bilingual Cultural Exchange
The bilingual cultural exchange program connects classrooms with XO's with college and high school students who are from a different part of the world. The goal is to promote (as the name of the project suggests) a bilingual cultural exchange in the form of emails about each individual's respective communities.
Organizing the wiki
I am trying to add more structure to the wiki. I am working on implementing Semantic Media Wiki, and Semantic forms to facilitate this task.
Yale OLPC
I am starting the OLPC Yale chapter. We are interested in participating in the Bilingual Cultural Exchange program. Functioning as a resource for new schools, and working to start a New Haven XO classroom.
Flashcard Data Structure Application
Most Applications on the XO use a binary data set to quiz students:
- Image Quiz uses an image map: string binary pair
- Kuku uses either an image: string pair, or a string: string pair
- Memory uses an image:image set
Unfortunately to edit the set of information used for the quiz programs you have to have a reasonable facility with Python. I would like to create a standard file type that could be passed between applications. I will also create an application to create such a file format.
The other side of this problem involves areas of information where questions could be generated by a computer, as in areas of math, and language learning. Another goal would be to make the standard file type work to creating random questions.