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This is a proposal. Your comments and criticism are encouraged. Please discuss on the discussion page. |
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== Introduction and goals == |
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= Goals = |
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* Hygiene |
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** wash hands, wash hands, wash hands |
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** Wear shoes (appropriate countries) |
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** Cover mouth |
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* Disease |
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** What are germs |
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** Where do they come from |
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** How they get inside of you |
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We are editing and updating the [http://www.child-to-child.org/resources/onlinepublications.htm storybooks] from [http://www.child-to-child.org Child-to-child] to be more teacher-friendly and in a format that's better distributed on the XO and other laptops (the current books are printed out of order as they're made to be printed out and folded into booklets). |
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= Books = |
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* Commission local authors and artists to write and illustrate children’s books about washing hands/hygene/etc. in each target country. Release under CC license. |
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* Apply for grants |
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* Connect with university faculty/staff in target countries to administer programs locally |
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* Set priorities for what books should teach. Create protagonists that will be common to all the books. |
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* Pay artists upon completion of work. |
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* Format for olpc and release |
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= Advantages = |
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* Low cost – we can pay authors and artists in target countries well without expending large sums of money |
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* Local relevance – A children’s book written for one culture probably won’t translate that well to another culture. We get both local stories and local art this way. |
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* If a story does translate well, then we have bonus books all around. |
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== How to help == |
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* There are a couple grants we may be able to go after. The money is out there. |
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*This proposal will hinge on whether we can create solid working relationships with people in our target countries who can administer the program locally. The local universities could be a useful starting place, unless we have better connections through OLPC. We will be fiscally responsible for any grant money we receive, so we will be the ones responsible for results, or lack thereof. |
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For each book, we need to... |
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= Computer Games = |
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Create tie-in interactive health adventure games with the protagonists from the books. This is definitely a v.2 objective. |
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# Convert the pdf to a text-editable wikipage (one subsection per page) |
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# Reorder the pages so that they're in sequence |
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# Edit the book |
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## Edit the text of the book's story |
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## Edit the teacher's notes and expand into a full classroom activity |
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# Create (or recover) illustrations for various pages of the stories and link to them at the top of the subsection of the corresponding page |
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# Reprint the page as an attractive PDF (automatically if possible) or another format that's made for easy reading on the XO |
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When all books are complete, we should make them into a content bundle. |
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== Progress == |
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* Abdul and Seri - 1 |
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* Bad Medicine - 1 |
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* Basim and Bloog - 1 |
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* Cricket Land - 1 |
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* Dirty Water - 1 |
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* Filthy the Fly - 1 |
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* I had a Flower - 1 |
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* The Killers' Committee - 1 |
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* The Lion has Fever - 1 |
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* The Mango Minders - 1 |
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* Not just a cold - 1 |
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* Old Chicken Eyes - 1 |
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* Sam and Dina - 1 |
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* The Song Competition - 1 |
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* The Hare's Revenge - 1 |
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* The Market Dentist - 1 |
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* Uncle George feeds his Baby - 1 |
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* Wally the Worm - 1 |
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Revision as of 07:01, 25 April 2008
Introduction and goals
We are editing and updating the storybooks from Child-to-child to be more teacher-friendly and in a format that's better distributed on the XO and other laptops (the current books are printed out of order as they're made to be printed out and folded into booklets).
How to help
For each book, we need to...
- Convert the pdf to a text-editable wikipage (one subsection per page)
- Reorder the pages so that they're in sequence
- Edit the book
- Edit the text of the book's story
- Edit the teacher's notes and expand into a full classroom activity
- Create (or recover) illustrations for various pages of the stories and link to them at the top of the subsection of the corresponding page
- Reprint the page as an attractive PDF (automatically if possible) or another format that's made for easy reading on the XO
When all books are complete, we should make them into a content bundle.
Progress
- Abdul and Seri - 1
- Bad Medicine - 1
- Basim and Bloog - 1
- Cricket Land - 1
- Dirty Water - 1
- Filthy the Fly - 1
- I had a Flower - 1
- The Killers' Committee - 1
- The Lion has Fever - 1
- The Mango Minders - 1
- Not just a cold - 1
- Old Chicken Eyes - 1
- Sam and Dina - 1
- The Song Competition - 1
- The Hare's Revenge - 1
- The Market Dentist - 1
- Uncle George feeds his Baby - 1
- Wally the Worm - 1