Educators

Welcome

This is the main organizational page for the OLPC educator community. It is a work in progress.

The purpose of this community is to support teachers who are using XOs in their classrooms, and to involve educators of various backgrounds who are interested in contributing to the OLPC project.

Where to Start

Haven't been here before?

• Create an account on the OLPCWiki!
• Add yourself to the educator Roll Call page.
• New to wiki editing? Here's a good tutorial to help you get started.

What should I do first?

• Read about the OLPC Learning Vision, to learn more about why we think children in developing countries need laptops and what we think laptops will enable them to do.
• Learn about our pilot programs-- read our reports from Nigeria and Thailand, visit the OLPC Ceibal blog, and explore the wiki pages created by OLPC Brazil.
• Familiarize yourself with OLPC's vision for content and collaboration, and the various Creative Commons licenses, since we want educational material produced for / connected with the project to be free and open source.
• Read some of the comments from teachers and children involved in the project.

And then what?

Join the community

• Add an educator user box to your user page.
• Create an educational organization page for your organization, group, or school.
• Start to Participate.

Contribute content

• Read about the content repository that will reside on the school servers.
• Add to the list of ideas for content that should be included in the repository.
• Contribute your content directly to OLPC by following these instructions.

Create activities

• Read the educational activity guidelines to learn about the features of the XO that pertain directly to educators.
• Contribute to our collection of story-based learning activities.
• Create a new activity, either with an activity template or entirely from scratch.

Projects

Jump right in!

A list of all open education-related tasks is here: Category:Education_Tasks

Open Projects

• Synthesizing info from pilot programs
• Expand presence of educators on wiki
• Educational bundle as part of each release
• Reactivate educators mailing list
• Educational activity guidelines
• Educator Jam
• Meta-indexing for library
• Towards Collaborative Constructionism
• Educational toolkit
• Content guidelines

Project Ideas

Activating educators is a brainstorming space for organizational principles and new project ideas.

Guidelines and Tutorials

• Educational activity guidelines
• Collaboration guidelines

We need more tutorials!

Frequently Asked Questions

Ask a question and someone will try to answer it.

Comments and Discussion

Please leave comments on the Educators talk page.