ClassActs/Resources

It Takes a Village...

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Please add other resources, with links if possible, to the following list. Please feel free to add comments about any of these resources if you wish. Additionally, if you feel the resource has potential material to include in a future instructional DVD for new XO users, please mark the resource "+DVD."

In English

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/Deployment_FAQ

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Documentation_Projects

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/ Click around this colorful, well illustrated elementary ed. curriculum site from down under, for set up and organizational ideas.

http://wiki.laptop.org/images/5/5d/Learning_Manual_V2.pdf This "OLPCorps Learning Guide" has 10 pages of relevant text; e.g., mission, faq's, stories, and activity lists. Be sure to take a look at this.

Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post, and here!)

Billy's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published)

File:OLPC Deployment Guide -- jul09.pdf from Michael Hutak, based on Walter Bender's

Very up-to-date OLPC Nauru reportage and May 2009 29-page DRAFT REPORT File:Leeming-Nauru-OLPC-Apr-May-2009-Report (draft 1).pdf fostered by David Leeming. (video)

The Librarian Chick's free textbook catalog

http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2009/04/nandblastear/ NANDblaster if you want to flash a software image onto many XO's at once.

DRAFT FLIER/CHAPTER File:XOsflyer.pdf by Gallaudet Univ art students, Kevin Cole and Caryl Bigenho.

"BrianBerryStart-up.pdf" is a very elegant warning of what can go wrong, based on Bryan Berry's OLE Nepal experiences.

In French (or Google translated from French)

Gabon/FranXOphonie Pedagogic Guide, Google Translation to English, OLPC France's Wikified version (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French)

Translation Success Story! (english auto-translation)

OLPC France's Amazing Media Archive

In Spanish

Uruguay/Ceibal's impact/implications booklet (hilarious cartoons!)

A set of images of pages from the Uruguay/Ceibal book on Flickr for somewhat easier browsing 1

A Flickr slideshow of the Uruguay/Ceibal book book pages 2

Uruguay's colorful 48-page starter guide: "Manual Basico XO" (2da edicion)

"Proyecto Flor de Ceibo" (Uruguay's March 2009 report)

Mexico's Mochilla Digital workshops. Includes presentation, workshop lesson plans, participants workbooks. Good presentation of constructionism. [1]

Mochilla Digital's "Tools" 19 Activity Guides plus extras. Some screen shots are from earlier versions of Sugar, but instructions are excellent. [2]

Peru's Teacher Topic Guides