ClassActs

Teachers' Mini-Deployment Guide (Washington DC)

Sept 6 Sunday: Dinner to meet fellow writers Sept 7 Monday: Labor Day (no holiday for us!) ... Sept 11 Friday: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)

Come and join our Community Book Sprint!

The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a Mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced.This idea arose from our Support Gang volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there.

The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like:

• OLPC Learning Club
• hacDC.org
• others...

Join a Historic Book Sprint

Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ lists.laptop.org explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :)

Possible Book Title

(Very Tentative)

20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers

Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them
Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang

Needs

• ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
• Graphics designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
• Experienced:
  • Tech Writers
    • Tech to "Grannie" translators!
  • Copy Editors
  • Photographs, Illustrations & Screenshots!!
• Blog to Invite DC and World
• MONGO HAPPY NOW shirts for OLPC/Sugar proselytizers crafting miracles the world doesn't yet see
• Draft Table of Contents
  • Map Representative Deployments (opening page of book?)
  • Key Community Success Stories Illustrated for diverse audiences (10p?)
  • Electricity, XO Hardware, Import/Legal Issues, Volunteer vs. Staff Teams, Finance, Sustainability (10p?)
  • Best Classroom Tricks & Tips using Sugar especially! (15p?)
• Think like a Librarian?! Please help sort/aggregate Fantastic resources in preparation:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Deployment_Resources
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Resources
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Technical_Manual
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Workbook
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar
      Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post)
       GuideXOGabon2.pdf Pedagogic Guide (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French, not yet published])
        Billy's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published)

• Post-production (lulu.com sales, chapters that stand as PDF case studies, e-book for XO and beyond, etc)

Likely Attendees

• Mel Chua
• Paul Commons
• Sarah Elkins
• Luke Faraone (labor day + setup)
• David Farning (invited)
• Cathy Ginther, AARP Managing Editor
• Adam Holt
• George Hunt, Tech Educator from NYC
• SJ Klein
• Mike Lee
• Yamandu Ploskonka (confirmed)
• Sameer Verma
• Seth Woodworth (invited)

Remote Attendees

• Caryl Bigenho, Los Angeles/Montana
• Albert Chen, China
• Sandy Culver, Massachusetts
• Christoph Derndorfer, Austria/Nepal
• Daniel Drake, UK/Nepal
• Sebastian Dziallas, Germany
• Pablo Flores?, Uruguay/Asia
• Rita Freudenberg?, Germany
• Billy Grissom, Uganda
• David Leeming, South Pacific
• Nancie Severs, New Hampshire
• Bryan Stuart, Indiana

Daytime/Workroom Venues

Currently under consideration:

• Gallaudet University (likely)
• Arlington, VA Career Center
• UMD Digital Libraries / Kids Testing Lab
• Library of Congress

Local Transportation and Navigation Aids

• Washington Metro Area Transit Authority a.k.a. "Metro"
• DC Circulator
• Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport
• Union Station (Amtrak and Metro)
• DC Government Visitors Resource Center (such as it is)
• Go DC Go!
• Water Taxi - between Old Town Alexandria and National Harbor

Parks & Recreation, Evening Tête-a-Têtes

Do suggest Great humble Restaurants & Evening Itineraries!

• Rock Creek Park
• Capital Crescent Trail and C & O Canal
• Mount Vernon Trail
• US National Arboretum
• Taste of India restaurant (The owner is a friend of Open Source)
• The Brickskeller Dining House & Down Home Saloon - a 17-page menu, with only one page being food. ;-)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial - as monuments and memorials go, this one is actually worth going to.
• Bike the Sites - bike rentals and tours.
• For the clubbers: The 9:30 Club, The Birchmere, The Black Cat
• Georgetown
• DC Ducks- tours in original WW II DUKW amphibious vehicles
• Dave & Buster's (White Flint Metro station)
• Old Town Alexandria (King Street Metro station)
• National Harbor (via water taxi from Old Town)
• The Washington City Paper - Find your own fun.
• Takoma Park Folk Festival (post-sprint: Sunday, September 13)
• <add suggestions here>

Accommodations

Until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:

• Hostels.com
• Great Affordable Bed & Breakfasts
• holt @ laptop.org may have friends!
• Mel Chua

Please Join Our Online Venues Today!

• Join our weekly Sunday 4PM EDT prep calls if you can help shape this deeply inspiring week! (contact holt @ laptop.org)
• support-gang@laptop.org
• grassroots@lists.laptop.org
• #olpc-help and #sugar
• http://flossmanuals.net/ClassActs ??

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”— Antoine de Saint Exupery