Microblog

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

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accounts

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

Tweets / Dents

• Uruguay [translate summary?] http://blogedu-rosamel.blogspot.com/2009/11/tortugarte.html
• http://www.clip.jin.vn/2009/11/olpc-mission-part-1-principles-and-child-empowerment/ <-- This link doesn't work
• http://www.rtl.nl/components/financien/rtlz/miMedia/2009/week41/wo_nieman_interviewt_negroponte.avi_plain.xml
• "OLPC South Carolina expands with donation" [TRY TO INVESTIGATE] http://columbia.news.sc/2009/11/06/one-laptop-per-child-south-carolina-expands-with-a-generous-donation-from-bluecross-blueshield-of-sc/
• #OLPC Uruguay is using digital student self-assessments on XOs to help teachers self-assess their teaching activities
• OLPC Uruguay and 2nd Grade teacher self-assessments via student tests http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcmetroblogger/4029115957/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-xo-python/index.html
• Come ready to play-and possibly take away- an XO-1.5 at FUDCon this weekend. Be prepared: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.5_B2
• Do you too view education as a civil right? The Urban Lab believes technology propels education in urban communities, join the discussion. http://dusp.mit.edu/p.lasso?t=7:7:0&cal_date=20091201&event=11599820
• Do you too view education as a civil right? Join the discussion on how new media technologies can contribute! http://dusp.mit.edu/p.lasso?t=7:7:0&cal_date=20091201&event=11599820
• http://download.olpc.asia/photo/SC_Deployment/ photos of Sichuan deployment
• The State of Wireless Mesh Networks http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/mesh-networks-come-of-age.ars
• Netbooks making strides throughout Africa: http://www.infoworld.com/t/laptops/netbooks-gain-popularity-in-africa-605

needs work / research

• OLPC's write application http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/0032254/AbiCollab-Takes-On-Google-Docs-and-Zoho-Writer
• Tempo donates 50% profit to OLPC http://bigbuttondesign.com/2009/11/13/50-of-tempo-proceeds-donated-to-olpc/
• http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2009/11/14/ceasefire-liberia-providing-a-platform-for-liberians/
• thesis: http://tinyurl.com/tesisuni Evaluation OLPC Usability Engineering [CHECK BEFORE SENDING]
• Duration of Compulsory Education around the World http://j.mp/92dzbO

interviews

• Interview with #OLPC volunteer Tim McNarama http://laptop.org.nz/tim-clicks SENT Shiny 03:41, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

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• Upper Canada College, Toronto took laptops and solar panels to Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya, now collaborate shared curriculum http://tinyurl.com/yhqpsv4

• [ARTICLE UNNECESSARILY NEGATIVE, see response below article and also http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/oct-17-letters-to-the-%20editor/article1327548/]

• East African Community Secretariat 10 Yr Anniversary Involves OLPC #OLPC (QUESTIONABLE ASPECTS, FACT CHECK FIRST) http://www.eac.int/component/content/320.html?task=view

  All of the detail about OLPC is wrong here. We will be participating in those events; speaking on the 20th; but we haven't received details about the campaign, and the quote about the laptop cost and donation matching were apparently extrapolated from G1G1 2007 text?? without contacting us.

• XO Laptop (picture of Walter) as one of 7 inventions that are changing the world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/7-inventions-that-are-cha_n_337877.html?slidenumber=Yz0ixx9YXBg%3D#slide_image

• Already sent http://twitter.com/OLPC/status/5268033720

Sent

• Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPC—Hints at Paperlike Design for Third Generation Laptop http://tinyurl.com/ygltc3z Shiny 23:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
• Open education and an IT-enabled economic growth in Ghana: Musings of a dutiful citizen: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=171387 Shiny 04:09, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC XO-3 - tablet form factor http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/04/olpc-negroponte-tablet-ebook Shiny 03:23, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
• OLPC: The Best ROI for Indian Children http://ictdev.org/pulse/20091105/ict4d/olpc-best-roi-indian-children Shiny 19:44, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
• New York Times #OLPC article 9th-November-2009 "Nonprofit Laptops: A Dream Not Yet Over" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/arts/09iht-design9.html Shiny 05:42, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
• Maths is not hard: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-moulden/math-is-not-hard-a-simple_b_331878.html Shiny 20:41, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
• Amping up OLPC New York Saturday November 21; 1-4PM - http://olpclearningclub.org/meetings/november-amping-up-olpc-ny-dc-meeting-date-change/ Shiny 06:27, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
• Nepal sets example with school laptops http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=11644 202.78.240.7 04:08, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
• XO laptop versus typhoon - who will win? http://www.ekindling.org/blogs/can-xo-laptop-survive-typhoon 202.78.240.7 00:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
• Food Force #sugar activity looking for volunteers - story boarding and social science, http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/grassroots/2009-November/001501.html Shiny 19:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
• Common Creativity: OLPC class at Rochester Inst of Technology http://reportermag.com/article/09-18-2009/common-creativity User:Shiny 21:27, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
• Seeking teachers in Greece for 500 laptop class programme http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=1861 Shiny 03:50, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
• RT @cameronreilly: photos of the OLPC rollout in Northern Territories, Australia http://bit.ly/2Jec3f Shiny 05:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
• Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions: A venture by some teachers has led school officials to ask who owns materials developed for public schools http://ur1.ca/fzpf User:Shiny
• One Laptop per Pacific Child - Fiji plans 70,000 XO Laptops http://olpcoceania.blogspot.com/2009/11/release-fiji-government-embraces-olpc.html Shiny 20:29, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
• @sameerverma: Schedule for OLPC-SF Community Summit 2009 is filling up quickly! http://tinyurl.com/olpcsf-summit Remember to RSVP. #olpc 202.78.240.7 20:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
• OOo4kids. http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
• Laptops for each student in 13 schools in Sri Lanka. http://is.gd/4YeJT #olpc Shiny 20:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
• seeking zero duty on education laptops http://www.mydigitalfc.com/entrepreneurship/education-project-seeks-zero-duty-laptops-571 Shiny 19:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
• Peru Information Technology Report Q4 2009 - new report released http://www.pr-inside.com/peru-information-technology-report-q-r1563379.htm Shiny 01:47, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
• http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo1/olpc_xo_greenest_laptop_made.html Shiny 19:38, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
• #OLPC in Austria http://olpcaustria.soup.io/ Shiny 22:23, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
• Who will be joining the OLPC in Toronto this weekend? 15 brand new XO-1.5 prototype XO laptops, packed and ready to go for FUDCon. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 Shiny 21:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
• Fichas y Fascículos de Uruguay http://ur1.ca/h0yk Lynnwang 17:25, 2 December 2009 (EST)
• A video about the impact of the XOs in a Ugandan school http://ur1.ca/h2i4 Lynnwang 11:52, 3 December 2009 (EST)