Microblog

The following are dents/tweets suggested for the OLPC microblog. Please assist Brenda Wallace volunteering/editing here!

If you can help with long-form writing, please help the similar effort now underway to give OLPC's official blog a far stronger voice.

accounts

• http://identi.ca/olpc
• http://twitter.com/olpc

Tweets / Dents

• "When people tell you that something is impossible, they usually have a vested interest in it not coming true" - Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC.
• It's an Education Project - Negroponte talk on OLPC in #Colombia (TED talk) http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_takes_olpc_to_colombia.html
• View finders for OLPC XO laptops - made from plastic, cardboard or even lego: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4604.msg30679#msg30679

Subjects that need work

• Integrating open source into high school curriculum in New Zealand: http://theopensourceschool.blogspot.com (CHECK BEFORE POSTING, THX)
• Impressive Public PowerPoint converted to PDF and posted to the bottom of: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources
• http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2008/03/bringing-an-olp.html
• William Kamkwamba on the DailyShow - his mission to overcome famine and poverty in his village by building a windmill from a picture in a library book. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-7-2009/william-kamkwamba

• Rural school in canada with One Macbook Per Child - it's about education, not the latop http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/canada/technology_in_education_integr.html #OLPC
• Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included--Book publishers looking to embrace the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube are creating “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html
• Netbook (mini laptop) sales increasing - Notebook (traditional laptop) sales falling http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10371015-1.html

interviews to post later

• Interview with #OLPC volunteer Tim McNarama http://laptop.org.nz/tim-clicks

Sent

• New York USA: Statue of Liberty joins in prep for Nov #OLPC NYC http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3975565671/
• Walter Bender's update on the #sugar project at Open Edge (Education Conference) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaquec_sugar-presentation-for-open-edge-20

• Can a laptop change the world? (BBC - 22 Sept) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html #OLPC Shiny 22:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
• XO 1.5: Create, Collaborate, Contribute: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/09/28/xo-1-5-create-collaborate-contribute/ #OLPC Shiny 04:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
• Technology & One Laptop Per Child movement key factors in Rwanda's economic growth (UK Telegraph): http://ur1.ca/csit #olpc Shiny 21:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC in Uruguay - 380,000 laptops delivered for children and their teachers http://youtube.com/watch?v=glz2I84JafA Shiny 23:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
• Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/ Shiny 01:20, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC will be at "Teaching Open Source Summit" Oct 29-30 in Toronto. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09 Shiny 04:24, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• Kenyan Children Receive Their #OLPC Laptops http://olpc.tv/2009/09/23/kenyan-children-receive-their-olpc-laptops/ !olpc Shiny 08:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC XO 1.5 Beta 2 Version Available For Contributors: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html Shiny 20:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• Aussie Northern Territory: Computer dream sees light of day (1 Oct) http://ur1.ca/cswx #OLPC Shiny 22:42, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
• NYC OLPC/Sugar Event, Sun Oct 18! Details forthcoming @ http://bit.ly/olpcny Shiny 00:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• Rwanda forges ahead with IT goals (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8285496.stm (video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8286918.stm ) Shiny 04:20, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy! German Master Thesis on the Sugar Learning Environment: http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/content/view/567/188/ Shiny 09:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• New Zealand #OLPC volunteers will be at #kiwipycon (Python programmers conference) in Christchurch November 7th & 8th http://nz.pycon.org/ Shiny 21:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC Pilot in Sri Lanka (Sunday Times lk) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/091004/Plus/plus_01.html Shiny 01:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• San Diego is giving a laptop to every 3rd Grader: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-articles/index.cfm?i=60608&page=1 (subscription required) Shiny 04:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• Laptops for all (Economist, 1st October) #Uruguay http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609 Shiny 09:16, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• NYC event (Sun Oct 18) will be announced here: http://meetup.com/One-Laptop-per-Child-Meetup/ Shiny 19:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• Bold Rwanda takes broadband leap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8266290.stm Shiny 22:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC.Asia making inroads into #Bhutan. Photo by Jacky Tsoi. Thx! #olpc !olpc http://ur1.ca/czwz (via @sameerverma) Shiny 01:11, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
• Big smiles as Bhutan student recieves her XO laptop http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2617150&id=699418120&l=283985ac81 #OLPC Shiny 02:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
• One Laptop Per Child pilot in #bhutan http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13608 #olpc Shiny 23:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
• The Innovator's Opportunity - Interview with Mary Lou Jepsen on Screen technologies, including #OLPC XOs http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/screen/the_innovators_opportunity.html Shiny 02:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC XO laptop controlling a @reprap home made 3D printer, to "print" spare parts for the laptop http://laptop.org.nz/olpc-xo-and-3d-printing-reprap Shiny 04:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC.Asia team's work is taking off in Bhutan. Photo album (courtesy Jacky Tsoi) at http://bit.ly/rFi0n #bhutan #olpc !bhutan !olpc (via @sameerverma) Shiny 19:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
• Walter Bender visits 150 5th grade kids with XO's. Video-mation: http://animoto.com/play/2hVwpobfxD4cs1OMSBlDVg Shiny 01:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
• XO laptop launch in community school #bhutan #olpc http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13631 Shiny 08:38, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
• XO 1.5 pre-release review: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html Shiny 22:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
• Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/videos/uruguays-plan-ceibal-the-worlds-most-ambitious-roll-out-of-educational-technologies Shiny 09:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
• Manipur state government (Indian) readying for OLPC school deployments http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=15..071009.oct09 Shiny 09:15, 11 October 2009 (UTC)