User:Lauren: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:13, 30 May 2007

Hi! I'm Lauren! I'm here for the summer! And here is a picture that I took with my XO:

Ideas for how-tos:
- Laptops
  - What are they?
  - What are the main components
  - Keyboard and touchpad
  - Antennas and wireless network
  - Taking care of your laptop
  - What do you do when something goes wrong?
- Starting to use them
  - Applications
  - Mesh and friends
  - Username
  - A browser and the internet
  - Google and finding content
  - Email and creating a gmail account
  - Wiki for kids?
- Safety
  - Handling power
- Resources
  - OLPC's website
  - Wikipedia
  - Dictionary (Marriam Webster)
  - Google's image search
Good how-to how-tos
- http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html
Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
- Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)

Guidelines for activity development (cf. OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines).
List of resources available
- Base Activities/content
- Additional Activities/content
- Online resources/content repository
Ideas for projects/activites
How to adapt your existing activity/curriculum/lesson for use w/ XO.
How to create an activity for use w/ XO.
- Sample activities
- Links to models for activity creation/development (cf. three x's).
- Conceptual templates for types of activites (research, games, etc).
Specific projects
- Storytelling/Center for Digital Storytelling
  - Info abt. storytelling opportunities
    - Available Activties
    - Relevant resources
    - Examples we like
- Mapping (Baktiar)
- Language instruction
  - Avallain
  - Individs (Tim VanSlyke)

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 == Projects ==
-===How to make how-tos and guides better/more accessible?===
+===How-tos===
-*Links to how-to how-tos?
+*Ideas for how-tos:
+** Laptops
+***What are they?
+***What are the main components
+***Keyboard and touchpad
+***Antennas and wireless network
+***Taking care of your laptop
+***What do you do when something goes wrong?
+** Starting to use them
+***Applications
+***Mesh and friends
+***Username
+***A browser and the internet
+***Google and finding content
+***Email and creating a gmail account
+***Wiki for kids?
+**Safety
+***Handling power
+**Resources
+***OLPC's website
+***Wikipedia
+***Dictionary (Marriam Webster)
+***Google's image search
+*Good how-to how-tos
+**[http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html]
 *Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
 **Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)
 ===Clear/accurate Activity status===
 *Status box for OLPCWiki