OLPC UK/Pilots/Resources
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So you want to run a pilot project? This page contains case studies, deployment reports/analysis, and advice directly relevant to pilot stakeholders.
General Preparation Guides
- OLPC Deployment Principles
- Deployment Guide
- SugarLabs Deployment Resources
- Educational ideas to consider (but not take dogmatically)
- Ideas for non-OLPC educators
- Concerns and criticism to be mindful of
- OLPC Oceania/Deployment
- [of Teacher training plan]
Preparing parents and teachers
- #Intro to Sugar and Sugar Activities
- Approach used in Oceania
- Introduction to SugarLabs
- Essays on Teaching and Learning by Marvin Minksy (MIT)
Intro to Sugar and Sugar Activities
These materials will give teachers and parents an idea of what can be done with Sugar, the software environment originally developed by OLPC and now developed by SugarLabs:
- Turtle Art basics
- Creating a customized Memory game
- Discovering the Physics activity
- Using the Journal
- Using View Source
For another list see SugarLabs videos page
Lesson Plan integration ideas
Here are some ideas to start discussion about how one might integrate Sugar into the classroom. These are not normative of course - just examples.
Pilot proposals
Case studies
Deployment Reports/Analysis
- Cambridge Friends School
- http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/olpc/archivos/GUIA%20Pedagogica%20OLPC_p1.pdf and http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/olpc/OLPC_fichasfasc.html
- SugarLabs Gardner Pilot Academy]
- Uruguay Deployment Update
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Friends/Australia's_first_deployment
- http://blog.laptop.org/2009/06/11/one-laptop-per-child-creates-a-global-center-for-excellence-in-laptops-and-learning/
Advice
Communications
For everyone
It's An Education Project - SugarLabs Deployment blogs