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*Make
*Make
*OpenPlans (in progress)
*OpenPlans (in progress)
*Macmillan (email e + c)
Planning for Wikimania
Planning for Wikimania
*Welcome/participate web page for XOs being taken to Wikimania, including links to easy-to-contribute-to projects. '''In progress:''' [[Wikimania]]
*Welcome/participate web page for XOs being taken to Wikimania, including links to easy-to-contribute-to projects. '''In progress:''' [[Wikimania]]
Licenses
*Do writeups for various GPL/CC licenses.


===Activating Educators===
===Activating Educators===

Revision as of 22:31, 17 July 2007

en This user is a native speaker of English.
EDU Grades: University
Subjects: Subject Literature
School: City University of New York
Country: USA


About me

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

Lauren and tree

See also:

Projects

OLPC Summer Blog

Did you know? There's a blog for the OLPC Cambridge office: http://olpc-cambridge.blogspot.com!

To become a contributor (which you all should do), send a message with your preferred email address to: lauren AT proleptic DOT com and I'll add you to the list.


Week of 7/16

Educators Portal

  • Work on it

Our Stories

Content packaging

Blog

  • One blog post per day +
  • page on wiki for how to make a blog post/join the blog +
  • sidebar on blog for same.

other orgs schedule time with:

  • Scholastic
  • Sesame Workshop
  • Make
  • OpenPlans (in progress)
  • Macmillan (email e + c)

Planning for Wikimania

  • Welcome/participate web page for XOs being taken to Wikimania, including links to easy-to-contribute-to projects. In progress: Wikimania

Licenses

  • Do writeups for various GPL/CC licenses.

Activating Educators

Moved to Activating educators

Related:

Educational Activity Guidelines

Organizing organizing

Moved to Organizing organizing

Activity status

  • Status template for OLPCWiki: Template:status box; example: TamTam.
  • Contact Activity builders
  • List of Activities
    • In base or additional?
    • Currently playable?

Deprecated:

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
  • Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
    • Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)

Ideas for lowercase "a" activity development

  • 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)