OLPC:News/2008/Week 8

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the week in review: Week 8, 2008* feel free to comment and update with footnotes and links to the talk page.

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^ Overview

 Progress in Mongolia with ICDL libraries.
 A strong grassroots community is coming together in Peru, thanks to user:sebastian. 
 Over 50 people came to the first gathering, and about half that number have written into 
 voluntario /at/ laptop asking to help out.

x Synergies

opportunities, people, engagements

I met with David Jasmin of LAMS/LAMAP, a pedagogical organization based in France aimed at improving learning and teaching in French schools, on Sunday. We ended up talking for a few hours; and found a good deal in common. He has been trying to make collaborative online authoring projects succeed, in French and other languages, since the 1990s. He feels that these days there are good zero-barrier-to-entry projects and that the older structured projects may find some new life. See the article for more.

The Google Literacy Project is organizing something cool for the Day of the Book. Our Speak activity and related literacy projects have been nominated as one of the projects to feature; we should find out the details and what is entailed soon (next week?).

· Artefacts

projects, events, news, materials

NB: feel free to add yourself as being interested in any artefact that shows up; or to create a separate page for it for further discussion

Anthony Asael of artinallofus has offered to help make collections from his massive global project, with 150,000 photographs and 80,000 poems from children around the world. We are discussing how to make the current contribution process — which he personally travels around the world to facilitate — into an activity, or a set of games.

Interested parties: UNICEF, Anthony, sethwoodworth.

= Fundament

status, deadlines, assumptions, processes

+ Priorities

milestones, sequences, first and next

o Reflection

review, updates, analysis, feedback