Olpc-workshop-India

Digital Bridge Foundation - OLPC Learning Workshop

DBF olpc volunteers Upgrade camp: Khairat 12 Oct 09

Date :- 2nd Dec - 4th Dec,2009

Venue: Gnowledge Lab

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd.
Mumbai, 400088 India

Time:- 9.30 am to 5.30 pm

DBF In collaboration with Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education: Gnowledge Lab

About Workshop

OLPC is designed around the idea of the free sharing of knowledge. Our goal is to empower children to share and build on what they learn in every way imaginable. There should be no barriers to children who wish to re-create and build on the materials they are given. XO will bring a world of new ideas, images and materials within reach of children around the world. It will also bring children and teachers new ways to collaborate, create, and transform works over time. Our focus on collaboration as a fundamental element of learning drives a commitment to editable document formats, revision tracking, and careful attribution of authors and sources.

It has been over a year since the start of DBF's first olpc project in India at Khairat. The current projects are:
Khairat School Khairat
Holy Mother School Nasik
Saint Anthony School Dugawar
Parikrma Bangalore
Ashoka High School Mumbai
Aradhna School Bangalore
Udavi Gentillesse Matriculation School Auroville

This workshop will bring together persons from these projects who will share with us their experiences. we will have an opportunity to nderstand the difficulties that projects face and find a way to address these issues in newer deployments.

Proposed Projects :
Goa Mumbai Kolkata Bihar 2 Districts. Nagaland Orissa Mangalore

Agenda for the workshop
This workshop will be led by Prof G Nagarjuna and will bring together persons from current olpc projects who will share with us their experiences. We will have an opportunity to learn the ropes for success and understand the difficulties that projects face and find a way to address these issues in newer deployments.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

Detailed programme will be available on this wiki by the 30th Dec.

General Sessions

How to operate the XO

Introduction to Sugar OS and Activities

Planning an olpc deployment

Technical Track How to set up a School Server

How to support and maintain XOs at the school level

Hands-on XO practical sessions

Teacher Track

Constructivism

Sugar Activities

How to create learning activities on the XO

Practical sessions.

Participants

1. Project Heads

2. Teachers and technical coordinators from current DBF olpc projects.

3. Proposed DBF olpc project deployments in the next 3 months.

Advance Reading
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/3/3b/Emergent_Design%2C_David_Cavallo.pdf

http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/9a/Learning_Manual.pdf

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/

We have limited seats for this Learning Workshop. Interested volunteers who wish to attend, please email dbfvolunteer@gmail.com. We will certainly look at ways of accomodating you based on the numbers who register.

All Volunteers please fill in and submit the DBF OLPC voluteer form to dbfvolunteer@gmail.com

This schedule is not cast in stone and suggestions are always welcome.

Participants please enter your name here

Name                 Email-Address            Project
* Harriet Vidyasagar harriet@laptop.org
* Rekha Sankhala     rekha.sankhala@gmail.com
* Amit Gogna         amit.gognaa@gmail.com
* Ujwala Waghmare    ujwalasprathm@gmail.com  Dosti Project
* Sameer Verma       sverma@sfsu.edu          [OLPC-SF] (online participation)

Mr.B.Mahesh Kumar      Varma bmk_varma@yahoo.com
Mr.Chandrakanth        chandrakanthregatti@gmail.com
Mr.Mustaqahmed         mustaq.snist@gmail.com