Microblog

The following are dents/tweets suggested for the OLPC microblog. Please assist Brenda Wallace volunteering/editing here!

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accounts

• http://identi.ca/olpc
• http://twitter.com/olpc

Tweets / Dents

• RT @eduWeavers: November 5, OLPC and eduWeavers talking shop at UC Berkeley! Join us.
• #OLPC Au "Window of Opportunity Initiative" invites corporate Australia to fund the deployment of XOs to children attending remote schools http://www.olpc.org.au/v2/events/
• Latin America and Laptops-Canada's CBC Radio on Uruguay: http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/thisseason/ 3:35 into this MP3: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/dispatches_20090910_20048.mp3
• IDB report indicates that 1:2 computing doesn't work as well as 1:1 http://bit.ly/45IM7H
• "When people tell you that something is impossible, they usually have a vested interest in it not coming true" - Nicholas
• Impressive [Uruguay, Miguel Brechner] Public PowerPoint converted to PDF and posted to the bottom of: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources
• http://www.rtl.nl/components/financien/rtlz/miMedia/2009/week41/wo_nieman_interviewt_negroponte.avi_plain.xml
• Rwanda Connectivity Planning? Compares OLPC Uruguay: http://allafrica.com/stories/200910300100.html
• Upper Canada College, Toronto took laptops and solar panels to Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya, now collaborate shared curriculum http://tinyurl.com/yhqpsv4 [ARTICLE UNNECESSARILY NEGATIVE, see response below article and also http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/oct-17-letters-to-the-%20editor/article1327548/]
• East African Community Secretariat 10 Yr Anniversary Involves OLPC #OLPC (QUESTIONABLE ASPECTS, FACT CHECK FIRST) http://www.eac.int/component/content/320.html?task=view

needs work / research

• OLPC's write application http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/0032254/AbiCollab-Takes-On-Google-Docs-and-Zoho-Writer

not really olpc, but interesting

• Maths is not hard: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-moulden/math-is-not-hard-a-simple_b_331878.html

interviews

• Interview with #OLPC volunteer Tim McNarama http://laptop.org.nz/tim-clicks SENT Shiny 03:41, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Sent

• New York USA: Statue of Liberty joins in prep for Nov #OLPC NYC http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3975565671/
• Walter Bender's update on the #sugar project at Open Edge (Education Conference) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaquec_sugar-presentation-for-open-edge-20

• Can a laptop change the world? (BBC - 22 Sept) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html #OLPC Shiny 22:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
• XO 1.5: Create, Collaborate, Contribute: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/09/28/xo-1-5-create-collaborate-contribute/ #OLPC Shiny 04:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
• Technology & One Laptop Per Child movement key factors in Rwanda's economic growth (UK Telegraph): http://ur1.ca/csit #olpc Shiny 21:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC in Uruguay - 380,000 laptops delivered for children and their teachers http://youtube.com/watch?v=glz2I84JafA Shiny 23:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
• Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/ Shiny 01:20, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC will be at "Teaching Open Source Summit" Oct 29-30 in Toronto. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09 Shiny 04:24, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• Kenyan Children Receive Their #OLPC Laptops http://olpc.tv/2009/09/23/kenyan-children-receive-their-olpc-laptops/ !olpc Shiny 08:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC XO 1.5 Beta 2 Version Available For Contributors: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html Shiny 20:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• Aussie Northern Territory: Computer dream sees light of day (1 Oct) http://ur1.ca/cswx #OLPC Shiny 22:42, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• NYC OLPC/Sugar Event, Sun Oct 18! Details forthcoming @ http://bit.ly/olpcny Shiny 00:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• Rwanda forges ahead with IT goals (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8285496.stm (video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8286918.stm ) Shiny 04:20, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy! German Master Thesis on the Sugar Learning Environment: http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/content/view/567/188/ Shiny 09:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• New Zealand #OLPC volunteers will be at #kiwipycon (Python programmers conference) in Christchurch November 7th & 8th http://nz.pycon.org/ Shiny 21:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC Pilot in Sri Lanka (Sunday Times lk) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/091004/Plus/plus_01.html Shiny 01:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• San Diego is giving a laptop to every 3rd Grader: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-articles/index.cfm?i=60608&page=1 (subscription required) Shiny 04:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• Laptops for all (Economist, 1st October) #Uruguay http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609 Shiny 09:16, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• NYC event (Sun Oct 18) will be announced here: http://meetup.com/One-Laptop-per-Child-Meetup/ Shiny 19:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• Bold Rwanda takes broadband leap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8266290.stm Shiny 22:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC.Asia making inroads into #Bhutan. Photo by Jacky Tsoi. Thx! #olpc !olpc http://ur1.ca/czwz (via @sameerverma) Shiny 01:11, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
• Big smiles as Bhutan student recieves her XO laptop http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2617150&id=699418120&l=283985ac81 #OLPC Shiny 02:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
• One Laptop Per Child pilot in #bhutan http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13608 #olpc Shiny 23:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
• The Innovator's Opportunity - Interview with Mary Lou Jepsen on Screen technologies, including #OLPC XOs http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/screen/the_innovators_opportunity.html Shiny 02:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC XO laptop controlling a @reprap home made 3D printer, to "print" spare parts for the laptop http://laptop.org.nz/olpc-xo-and-3d-printing-reprap Shiny 04:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC.Asia team's work is taking off in Bhutan. Photo album (courtesy Jacky Tsoi) at http://bit.ly/rFi0n #bhutan #olpc !bhutan !olpc (via @sameerverma) Shiny 19:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• Walter Bender visits 150 5th grade kids with XO's. Video-mation: http://animoto.com/play/2hVwpobfxD4cs1OMSBlDVg Shiny 01:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
• XO laptop launch in community school #bhutan #olpc http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13631 Shiny 08:38, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
• XO 1.5 pre-release review: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html Shiny 22:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
• Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/videos/uruguays-plan-ceibal-the-worlds-most-ambitious-roll-out-of-educational-technologies Shiny 09:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
• Manipur state government (Indian) readying for OLPC school deployments http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=15..071009.oct09 Shiny 09:15, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
• View finders for OLPC XO laptops - made from plastic, cardboard or even lego: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4604.msg30679#msg30679 Shiny 20:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
• Works created by #Bhutan students with their #OLPC (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsX_KaNH0w0 Shiny 00:19, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC hiring Linux devs! http://laptop.org/en/utility/people/opportunities.shtml Shiny 06:39, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC kicks off from Kabjisa (Kuensel) 11 Oct #bhutan The One Laptop Per Child training project .. http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13674 Shiny 19:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
• Integrating open source into high school curriculum in New Zealand: http://theopensourceschool.blogspot.com (CHECK BEFORE POSTING, THX) Shiny 19:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
• RT @olpcindia: Its official! India's Manipur state votes for OLPC. http://ur1.ca/dg4h Please pass it along, spread the message! Shiny 19:42, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Negroponte, founder of OLPC.

• It's an Education Project - Negroponte talk on OLPC in #Colombia (TED talk) http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_takes_olpc_to_colombia.html Shiny 03:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
• William Kamkwamba on the DailyShow - his mission to overcome famine and poverty in his village by building a windmill from a picture in a library book. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-7-2009/william-kamkwamba Shiny 08:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
• More OLPC Bhutan pics, courtesy Ryanne Hiu-Yeung Lai of OLPC.Asia http://bit.ly/hjQWq #olpc !olpc Shiny 23:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
• School Server v0.6 released http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/07/school-server-v0-6-released/ Shiny 23:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
• The 'youngest headmaster in the world' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8299780.stm Shiny 19:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
• One Broadband Per Finn: 1mb/s a legal right in Finland by July. 100mb Per Finn by 2015? [Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html] User:holt ~4:28, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
• Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay! 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers (BBC) #OLPC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309583.stm User:holt ~13:46, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
• Uruguay's 396,727th "final" XO Laptop presentation (youtube video) #OLPC http://youtube.com/watch?v=5DztzQEqRyc User:holt 01:24, 19 October (UTC)
• One Laptop Per Pacific Child http://laptop.org.nz/one-laptop-pacific-child #olpc Shiny 19:39, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
• Rural school in canada with One Macbook Per Child - it's about education, not the laptop http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/canada/technology_in_education_integr.html #OLPC Shiny 02:45, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC in School Library Journal - http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6357106&articleid=CA6357106 Shiny 03:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC) [By Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief -- School Library Journal, 08/01/2006]
• En Uruguay, des ordinateurs gratuits à l'école pour intégrer les enfants pauvres (Le Monde) http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2009/10/17/en-uruguay-des-ordinateurs-gratuits-a-l-ecole-pour-integrer-les-enfants-pauvres_1255217_0.html Shiny 08:03, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
• Bastien Guerry presents to Paris' ENS Création Industrielle: http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/10/histoires-do-robots-lego-logo-xo/ Podcast: http://www.ensci.com/lecole/evenements/conferences/conference/article/984/473/
• BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bookserver_a_plan_to_build_an_open_web_of_books.php Shiny 02:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
• Interview with Boston Book Festival Participant Nicholas Negroponte http://bostonist.com/2009/10/20/boston_book_festival_technology_nicholas_negroponte.php Shiny 05:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
• Photos from OLPC in Sri Lanka http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2009/10/mahapola-moe-olpc-foss.html Shiny 08:23, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
• "[India] State govt earmarks Rs 155 lakh for one laptop per child" http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=15..071009.oct09 Shiny 20:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
• BookServer can deliver 1.6 m ebooks to OLPC (One Laptop per Child) XO laptops, wirelessly. http://followthereader.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-day-it-all-changed/ (via @glecharles) Shiny 01:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
• Every Elementary Student in Uruguay Now Has an OLPC Laptop http://www.dailytech.com/Every+Elementary+Student+in+Uruguay+Now+Has+an+OLPC+Laptop/article16542.htm Shiny 08:43, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC Afghanistan builds pedal power system for XO Laptop http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/olpc-afghanistan-builds-pedal-power-system-for-xo-laptop.html Shiny 21:25, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
• One Laptop Per Child scheme finds its feet in South American schools - http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/olpc-in-hands-of-all-uruguay-s-primary-kids-643136 Shiny 05:14, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
• Caryl Bigenho's Los Angeles microdeployment photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2019550&id=1413015665&l=25d1c0f81f and Map: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects Shiny 19:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
• Netbook (mini laptop) sales increasing - Notebook (traditional laptop) sales falling http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10371015-1.html Shiny 21:35, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
• Pixel Qi's lower power screen shipping soon - http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/pixel-qi-displays-shipping-to-oems-soon.html Shiny 22:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC laptops in Africa http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Hardware/10191.html Shiny 08:30, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
• How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rothman/how-e-books-could-smarten_b_329227.html Shiny 19:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
• Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ Shiny 05:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
• Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included--Book publishers looking to embrace the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube are creating “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html Shiny 20:31, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
• Slashdot / Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/24/2049231 Shiny 02:27, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
• Oh Canada! Join r Toronto/YorkU Thu conf dinner & UWaterloo Sat lunch http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/toronto-dev/2009-October/000053.html Holt 3:31, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC View finder made from "Shrinkydink" http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4041206404/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4040458719/ Shiny 19:44, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
• Toronto OLPC-Sugar-Teaching Open Source Dinner Thurs: Moved to YorkU! http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2009-October/000629.html Holt 0:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC named one of the "7 Inventions That Are Changing the world" by the @huffingtonpost : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/7-inventions-that-are-cha_n_337877.html?slidenumber=Yz0ixx9YXBg%3D#slide_image Shiny 20:18, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
• Improving internet access in #Rwanda http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=14064&article=21833 #olpc [who posted? "10:52 AM Oct 30th from identica"]
• CBCradioCanada Interviews Uruguay http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/thisseason/ MP3 @3:35 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/dispatches_20090910_20048.mp3 6:44, Holt 1 November 2009 (UTC)