ClassActs/Table of contents

Overview/ Introduction (5-10p?)

Possibly use graphics as overview tool, like a Globe as deployment map (mentioned below)?

Need for several reasons to describe how/ what the criteria for selection of 'successful' projects to be included, both to scope the sprint and project, plus for focus and clarity...

Readers / Contributors Perspectives: Student, Educator, Parent, Relatives (grandparents, etc), Politicians (local & international politics), Administrator (school, IT), NGOs (OLPC, Private School, Church/Faith Community, etc), Geek, Hardware Manufacturers, Software Developers, Community Organizers, Researchers, etc?

Basic Pedagogy?

Constructionist vs. Traditional

Classroom lead in?

After school deployments vs. fitting into existing curriculm, might be a long slow process here and abroad given politics and beaureaucracy, e.g. standards of learning (SOL), etc...

Graphics And Interactive Options

The less language specific we are, the easier to translate, and probably easier to understand, for all levels and reader perspectives...

Make an Online equivalent of the document, perhaps innovatively, so users changes and base templates can merge in Git like environment...

As a Living Document, not just something to print and put on a shelf like many manuals, policies and procedures documents...

Somehow make it Interactive? With Dynamic content?

• MindMap? As a Graphic Overview and sprint and learning process tool?
• Semantic web? connections?
• Automatically generate index/ references, bibliography?

Vague Character Graphics for a book/ process logo?

XO Symbol O Head = world globe? X building foundations from shoulders of giants? V future (link to clock bootup, implementation plan, and process) . vertex, current state of the art, time now, location, you are here ^ base

Logo with good stuff/deployments at each continent/ + green pastures for new deployments Map to OLPCorps Africa sites? User Group Locations Map Repair Centers

Key Community Success Stories Illustrated for diverse audiences (10p?)

(see criteria for inclusion Questions above)

In Class

• What did the children learn?
• What did teachers/ administrators learn?
• How does it help them later on?
  • Cross cultural,
  • emotional,
  • standards,
  • other transferable skills?

Outside Class

Effects on parents, student volunteers travelling on OLPCorps, NGOs, poverty, etc

In Community

Accepted or Rejected in the community? How to measure outcomes?

Next Steps?

Electricity, XO Hardware, Import/Legal Issues, Volunteer vs. Staff Teams, Finance, Sustainability (10p?)

Infrastructure?

Getting Started Guide for Absolute Beginners

This is where Yama will be helping, mostly :-)

The Big Idea is to get to the point that someone picking up this book would be able to use the XO for something useful right away and without too much pain.

Most clear goal: teachers who have had so far no contact with computers being able to use XOs for actual, real classroom work. Yamaplos 21:00, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

   OLPC-SUR QtoA:
   * Where to get on-line and in-person help?
   * How much disk space have XOs, and how much is occupied by
     Activities and daily kid's work
   * what activities can be shared and among how many
   * how can this help or has helped learning

Conclusions

What do people take away from this? Is it technical, if so how technical, given step by step may change or how to implement, or overview of project? Also give hope that they can pull off deploying in an educational environment, complete with tools and case study of how to do it...

References

How to look up info, translate, best sources, etc...

How to download audio and video for the laptops (MP3 plug-in, OGG and OGV content, maybe Flash plug-in)