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OLPC Philippines grassroots group

Remote Pilot Deployment:

Lubang,Occidental Mindoro,Philippines

eKindling is collaborating with OLPC Friends and OLPC-NZ(New Zealand) in bringing the first remote school Pilot in the Philippines. This will be made possible through the generous fund raising and contributions by current and former National Computer Center employees with the leadership of Meg Simpson. The goal is to deploy 100 laptops to 4 classrooms in the school.

eKindling and OLPC Educational Project Milestone

• Result of the first Lubang meeting
  • Lubang Educational Project: [1]
• Deployment Ground Breaking:5 Day Teacher's Training [2]
  • Debrief Notes: 5-day eKindling Teacher Training [3]

Donor's List

The Lubang OLPC Pilot has been made possible by generous donations from current and former employees of the National Computer Center. This is all for the love of the current Mayor of Lubang, Juan M Sanchez . Mayor Sanchez was the founder and first Managing Director of the National Computer Center.

Friends of Lubang eKindling OLPC Deployment

Donor's List

Name	Pesos	US Dollar	Aus Dollar
1. Nina & Armand Abaya		200.00
2. Susan Abaya		300.00
3. Mon Acebes			100.00
4. Jing and Bing Acosta			100.00
5. Ting Alberto			50.00
6. Fides Alviar		100.00
7. Bella Amurao-Box			311.75
8. Art & Reggie Aquino			100.00
9. Jopine Atienza		100.00
10. Jane Moraleda Avila		100.00
11. Sonya Badiola			200.00
12. Willie Badiola			20.00
13. Jun Banan			300.00
14. Bhoy and Cora Barretto			200.00
15. Bot Bautista			100.00
16. Ping Bayani		150.00
17. Dency Wong Bermas		100.00	2.50
18. Soc and Weet Brazal			316.00
19. Thicz Tiotuyco, Linda Navarro, Shiony Binamira, Luchi & Mario Lavin	11,700.00
20. Rico Carmona		300.00
21. Christy Castro		100.00
22. Charles Chan			100.00
23. Seny Coad			100.00
24. Ruben Cortez		75.00
25. Lorna and Cesar de Jesus			50.00
26. Angie (Yeye) de Lara			101.00
27. Alex de leon			100.00
28. Flor Parel del Rosario			100.00
29. Toch dela Torre(In Memory of Emilyn)		600.00
30. Margaret Echevarria			300.00
31. Letty Enriquez-Mary		104.00
32. Bien Espino			200.00
33. Nymia & John Eunson			1,000.00
34. Marie and Manny Evasco			200.00
35. Robert Felipe		100.00
36. Rey Galvez		300.00
37. Ann Gatmaytan			123.95
38. Liz Lejarde Gonzalez			200.00
39. Linda Hill			350.00
40. Tom and Epay Lara			50.00
41. Tommy Lara		25.00
42. Marissa Legaspi			350.00
43. JJ Lindaya			330.00
44. Maria Zaida Lopez			100.00
45. Rene Macaraeg		100.00
46. Danny Manahan			5.00
47. Boots Manansala		300.00
48. Didi Manarang		100.00
49. Rene & Yael Manongdo			400.00
50. Leo Mascarinas		95.00
51. Shala Miran		50.00
52. Irma Modesto			100.00
53. Edna Murillo			100.00
54. Angel Naval			100.00
55. Lyle and Nane Nebre			120.00
56. Jun and Amie Ofrecio			322.20
57. Tess and Palatz Palatino		300.00
58. Robert Pangilinan		100.00
59. Nerissa Pato			300.00
60. Nene & Med Pestano		200.00
61. PMA Class '55		1200.00
62. Lydia Pons		10.000
63. Cosme and Evelyn Purugganan			1,540.00
64. Dodie Quiaoit		600.00
65. Mr & Mrs Elmer Ramos			335.00
66. Jorge Reyes			100.00
67. Col Bert Rodriguez and Nini Rodrigues		600.00
68. Augusto & Yoly Roxas			100.00
69. Roy Rubio			54.00
70. Vangie Saludares			300.00
71. Peps Regalado San Gabriel			25.00
72. Natie Sanchez			76.00
73. Col Sanchez' Children		1,000.00
74. Evelyn Sangueza			100.00
75. Gerard and Violy Santuico			100.00
76. Jowee Sarmenta & family		1,500.00
77. Al See			200.00
78. Meg Simpson & the late Ron Simpson			1,200.00
79. NCC Sydney Reunion Raffle			910.00
80. NCC Sydney Reunion Surplus			2,131.29
81. Gerry Tagunicar		300.00
82. Leonora Pacheco Tamoro			100.00
83. Bella Tan			350.00
84. Ramon Tanafranca			220.00
85. Thelma & Jun Tiongson			210.63
86. Abe and Didi Tomas		300.00
87. Cynthia A Topacio		100.00
88. Myra Florendo Van Vactor		200.00
89. Liza Villagonzalo			100.00
90. Ley Villamor			100.00
91. Boy and Nikki Villanueva			100.00
92. Rolly (Govs) Villanueva		100.00	225.00
93. Sherill (Gov's daughter) Villanueva		20.00
94. Joey Yap			300.00

School Profile

Lubang Integrated School

• Information on Lubang: [4]
• Location: Barangay Araw at Bituin Lubang, Philippines
• Total Number of Students in the School: 603
• Number of Students who will participate in the program: 93
• Number of Teachers participating: 7
• Number of computers in the classroom: 2
• Internet Connection: Wired, Broadband

Collaborating Members and Institutions (pls. add additional information)

• Ryan Letada: eKindling, Philippines
• Harvy Viray: University of the Philippines
• Tessa Yuvienco: Headway School
• Joel Yuvienco: Miriam College, Asian University Digital Resource Network
• Mitch Seaton: OLPC Friends (Sydney, Australia)
• OLPC-New Zealand
• Cherry Withers: Squeakland/eKindling, USA
• Meg Simpson: Representative of current and former employees of the National Computer Center.
• Col. Sanchez: Mayor of Lubang
• Marife Mago: eKindling, OLPC-NYC, USA

Project Checklist

• Initial Deployment Checklist: Done by Mitch Seaton, Meg Simpson & Col. Sanchez. Date: 8/26/2009
• Lubang Consultation Visit: Ryan Letada, Tessa Yuvienco & Harvy Viray. Date: 11/24/2009-11/26/2009
• Curriculum Integration Development and Moodle Set-up
• Teacher Training Program

5-day Teacher Training Schedule

First Day

Morning

Participants:

Class A (Teachers as participants, Instructor: Tessa Yuvienco)

Estimated Time: 2 hours

I. Discover

1. Welcome Participants
2. History/Background of Project (Video)
3. Facilitators and Participants Introduction
4. Leveling/Setting of expectations (K-W-L worksheet)
5. Overview of the course and its framework
6. Formulation/Negotiation of Realistic/Achievable Goals

II. Disclose

  * Participant's Inventory of Learning Styles
  * Show-and-Tell of Students' Learning Styles and Teaching Methodologies
  * Revisit of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
  * Focus on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Class B (Hardware Support Team & Children, Instructor: Cherry Withers)

  * NAND Blasting to update the Sugar Firmware
  * Running of Diagnostics
  * Dis-assembly/Assembly of an XO 1.0
  * Hardware Comparison of XO 1.0 and XO 1.5
  * Wifi Trouble Shooting

Afternoon Participants: Everyone Instructor: Cherry Withers

a) Hardware Introduction

   * Opening, closing, “ears”
   * eBook format
   * Starting / shut down
   * Screen rotate
   * Volume and Brightness
   * Trouble shooting Restarting if in difficulty
   * Hard (forced) reboots
   * Going in/out of sleep mode
   * Charging and battery monitoring
   * Basic Troubleshooting: jumpy cursor, power issues

b) Sugar Environment Introduction

   * The 4 Views of the Frame
   * Different Views of Activities
   * Customizing via the Control Panel
   * Functions
   * Sharing
   * Inviting
   * Intro to the Journal
   * Help activity

c) How to reinstall the laptop operating system and activities with a prepared flash drive 2nd Day Morning

   * Finding and connecting to access points
   * Checking connection status via Frame view
   * Starting and coordinating a shared activity
   * Joining a shared activity: Use Chat
   * Inviting someone

Afternoon

   * Copying files to/from Journal with flash drive
   * Awareness of memory, checking memory usage
   * Renaming and deleting files in journal
   * Using Public Internet: cautionary use, what is open source
   * Accessing the OLPC wiki laptop activities
   * and collections pages from Browse

3rd Day (Activities and Curriculum Integration) Instructor: Cherry Withers Morning

   * Speak
   * Paint
   * Measure
   * Chat
   * Memorize

  1.  built-in games
  2.  building games

   * Stopwatch, Ruler
   * Clockgame
   * TamTamMini (maybe)
   * Calculate
   * Poll
   * Record: 

  1. Take a video introduction, name the video
  2. Take "All about Me" photos, name each file

   * Write

  1. Incorporate the photos taken from the Record Activity
  2. Writing text, Editing Text
  3. Shared Editing (Illustrate group collaboration on editing)

Afternoon

   * Finding and downloading other activities

4th Day Morning

   * Introduction to Etoys
         o - Saving and Opening projects
         o - Paint Tool
         o - Book: Inserting Pictures, Inserting pages and text
   * Accessing projects by other people and running the projects

Afternoon Instructor: Hamilton Chua

  1. Introduction to the XS. What is it ? How does it help you ?
         * Central storage
         * Collaboration
         * Management
  2. Registering your XO Laptop
         * how to register an xo
         * logging in
         * troubleshooting registration
  3. Your Moodle Profile page
         * Filling up profile information
         * Backup Tab, briefly describe how backups work

5th Day Instructor: Hamilton Chua

  1. Understanding Roles
  2. Customizing a course
         * adding resources
         * adding activities
         * customize aspects of the course
  3. Grouping Students
  4. Adding a lesson
  5. Adding an exam Restoring from a backup
  6. When a laptop gets lost
         * where's the data ?
         * restoring into a new laptop
         * linking users

Location

• Accessibility of the School from Metro Manila: 30mins. by Plane, 7 hours by ship

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