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== Projects ==
== Projects ==

=== OLPC Summer Blog ===
Did you know? There's a blog for the OLPC Cambridge office: [http://olpc-cambridge.blogspot.com/]! Send a message with your preferred email address to: lauren AT proleptic DOT com and I'll add you to the authors list.


=== Week of 6/18 ===
=== Week of 6/18 ===

Revision as of 20:27, 22 June 2007

en This user is a native speaker of English.
EDU Grades: University
Subjects: Subject Literature
School: City University of New York
Country: USA


About me

Hi! I'm Lauren! I'm here for the summer! And here is a picture that I took with my XO:

Lauren and tree

See also:

Projects

OLPC Summer Blog

Did you know? There's a blog for the OLPC Cambridge office: [1]! Send a message with your preferred email address to: lauren AT proleptic DOT com and I'll add you to the authors list.

Week of 6/18

  • Work learning activity model/templates.
    • Lesson plan
    • Constructionism-based
    • Other models?
  • Publicize blog, photo project, etc.
    • One post per day.
  • New page: how to join the blog.
  • Check mailing lists; create educator mailing list?
  • DONE: For next week, make Educators page presentable.
  • DONE: By 6/21: list of things to do for educator page.
  • Flesh out individual project pages w/ extended descriptions.

Week of 6/25

  • Continue working on Educational activity guidelines
  • Finish Educators community pass number one.
  • Finish activity templates.
  • Re-engage CM, DC.
  • By 6/25: letter to educational orgs w/ corresponding user page templates and/or user boxes.

Activating Educators

Moved to Activating educators

Related:

Educational Activity Guidelines

Organizing organizing

Moved to Organizing organizing

Activity status

  • Status template for OLPCWiki: Template:status box; example: TamTam.
  • Contact Activity builders
  • List of Activities
    • In base or additional?
    • Currently playable?

Deprecated:

How-tos

  • Ideas for how-tos:
    • Laptops
      • What are they?
      • What are the main components
      • Keyboard and touchpad
      • Antennas and wireless network
      • Taking care of your laptop
      • What do you do when something goes wrong?
    • Starting to use them
      • Applications
      • Mesh and friends
      • Username
      • A browser and the internet
      • Google and finding content
      • Email and creating a gmail account
      • Wiki for kids?
    • Safety
      • Handling power
    • Resources
      • OLPC's website
      • Wikipedia
      • Dictionary (Marriam Webster)
      • Google's image search
  • Good how-to how-tos
  • Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
    • Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)

Ideas for lowercase "a" activity development

  • List of resources available
    • Base Activities/content
    • Additional Activities/content
    • Online resources/content repository
  • Ideas for projects/activites
  • How to adapt your existing activity/curriculum/lesson for use w/ XO.
  • How to create an activity for use w/ XO.
    • Sample activities
    • Links to models for activity creation/development (cf. three x's).
    • Conceptual templates for types of activites (research, games, etc).
  • Specific projects
    • Storytelling/Center for Digital Storytelling
      • Info abt. storytelling opportunities
        • Available Activties
        • Relevant resources
        • Examples we like
    • Mapping (Baktiar)
    • Language instruction
      • Avallain
      • Individs (Tim VanSlyke)