OLPC UK/Pilots/Resources

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

• OLPC and SugarLabs background
• Intro to Sugar and Sugar Activities
• Guide on How to present Sugar
• Approach used in Oceania
• Introduction to SugarLabs
• Essays on Teaching and Learning by Marvin Minksy (MIT)
• Sugar manual

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.

• Teacher Training notes from OLPC Oceania

• Turtle Art Example

Have a look at the Intro to Sugar and Sugar Activities section too

• New Group Started on Curriki [1] for lesson plans. Please contribute so this repository will grow. If you are in need of a lesson plan template Sugar_Lesson_Plan_Template.dotx‎ is quite comprehensive.

Pilot proposals

• Boston pilots

Case studies

• SugarLabs USA YMCA Healthy Kids day report]
• SugarLabs USA Olin Play session report

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

• http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006281.html

Communications

Participation suggestions

For everyone

It's An Education Project - SugarLabs Deployment blogs

For software

• - SugarLabs Getting Involved resources

Materials Needed

We don't know of any place one can get:

• a screencast of Write activity suitable for introducing teachers / parents to how it can be used in the classroom / at home.

Please add anything you want to this list. We point people at it when they ask "what can I create".