User:Femslade

I am Francesca Slade, a Yale undergraduate is interning at OLPC this summer. My email is firstname.lastname [at] yale.edu. My cell phone number is (917) 842 6216. I am involved in working on lots of projects described below. To find a list of current work please look at My weekly updates.

Also see /questions for a SMWiki wishlist

Open Jams

An Open Jam, or OJ for short is a public meeting for people who want to get involved with the OLPC project. Each meeting should have a goal of content or code or contacts. The overarching goal of the project should be helping people learn in a way that will enable them to continue to be involved in the OLPC project. We want to think critically about how children learn, and how one can use computers to learn. We are going to work to develop materials, activities, and programs that will facilitate this.

We are starting a Boston_Saturday_OJ from 2-6 at 1CC, and we would love for anyone to come. Please send me an email and let me know if you are coming.

Bilingual Cultural Exchange

The bilingual cultural exchange program connects classrooms with XO's with college and high school students who are from a different part of the world. The goal is to promote (as the name of the project suggests) a bilingual cultural exchange in the form of emails about each individual's respective communities.

Flashcard Data Structure Application

Most Applications on the XO use a binary data set to quiz students:

• Image Quiz uses an image map: string binary pair
• Kuku uses either an image: string pair, or a string: string pair
• Memory uses an image:image set

Unfortunately to edit the set of information used for the quiz programs you have to have a reasonable facility with Python. I would like to create a standard file type that could be passed between applications. I will also create an application to create such a file format.

The other side of this problem involves areas of information where questions could be generated by a computer, as in areas of math, and language learning. Another goal would be to make the standard file type work to creating random questions.

Teacher Chats on IRC

The IRC room #OLPCeducation is to be used for education discussions relating to the use of XOs. There will be monthly (and depending on demand possibly more frequent, see Teacher Chats on IRC) chats on IRC to talk about recent technical problems, and solutions, and successful educational exercises with the XO's, and feature or content requests.

Kuku

I am working on getting Kuku running on the newest XO build. Mainly to learn about how activities work on the XO.

Yale OLPC

I am starting the OLPC Yale chapter. We are interested in participating in the Bilingual Cultural Exchange program. Functioning as a resource for new schools, and working to start a New Haven XO classroom.

Organizing the wiki

I am trying to add more hierarchical structure to the wiki.