ClassActs/Resources
Glimpses of OLPC Deployments
Where every smile counts...
Where every child counts...
Where every corner counts...
Check more at OLPC Flickr and sorted by Country/Deployment
XOs on solar power
Learning how to teach
Together we can
Check more at OLPCorps Flickr and sorted by Country/Deployment
Important Information for all OLPC Deployments
Preparation for deployment (anecdoted by real-life experiences)
Country specific deployment guides and Sugar Installation
Deployment resources (to be merged into main stream)
Class-Act tips from an experienced volunteer -Sean Laurence discusses his personal experience and useful tips for OLPC volunteers who are about to go on a deployment.
OLPC Startup in 5 Easy Pieces - Bryan Berry's Nepal experiences. Learn what can go wrong, as you build your deployment team
Deployment Guide from Michael Hutak, based on Walter Bender's Deployment guide
OLPC Oceania / Michael Hutak's great learning/deployment resource listing
OLPC France's Amazing Media Archive (in French)
Billy Grissom's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published)
Deployment FAQ
Sugar and XO: Technical Preparation
Sugar : Technical manual, installation and troubleshooting
Technical issues and solutions (to be merged with Technical Manual)
Presenting Sugar
Sugar Learning Photo Gallery
Sugar Labs' Lesson Plan resources and Martin Dengler's Lesson plan template
NANDblaster Use it to flash a software image onto multiple XO's at once (to be moved)
Cost estimation for deployments
Using workbook to estimate a deployment cost
Train the Trainer: How teachers/educators can help make change
- Guide for Educators
- Steal great classroom ideas from the many independent projects arising from OLPC's Contributors Program
- Illustrated elementary curriculum site Refer for curriculum set up and school organizing ideas
- Moodle: Using Open Source to Support Education by Martin Dougiamas
- OLPC AF Downloads : Teacher training content, monitoring and evaluation materials
- Australia's very impressively colorful 20-page OLPC Teacher Guide (1.5 MB) by *Jonathan Nalder, Caboolture.
- Gabon/FranXOphonie Pedagogic Guide, Google Translation to English, OLPC France's Wikified version (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French)
- XO-Measure-Manipulate-Reflect guide on how to build your own cheap sensors by Claudia
- Community-Mapping lesson plans from Claudia
- Alex Jones' Teacher's Tools (Game Design student @ Rochester Inst of Tech)
- An amazing new manual from Peru (The XO Laptop in the Classroom, great for teachers) added to our list of Manuals
- Lesson plans, tutorials & research studies from "Hello Laptop, Hello World" in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- A broad selection of Academic Papers and Constructionism insights may help you reflect on advancing your implementation support.
- The Librarian Chick free textbook catalog
Manuals, Handbooks and User Guides
- Documentation projects in progress (to be merged or linked)
- OLPCorps Learning Guide (10 pages) OLPC mission, stories, activity lists and FAQ
- Where There's No Doctor? Amazing 400+ page internationalist health guide
- Excellent "La Laptop XO En El Aula" by Sdenka Salas in Peru. See also *English translation
- New 31-page XO starter guide. (15MB)
- Uruguay's colorful 48-page starter guide: "Manual Basico XO" (2da edicion) (2.5MB)
OLPC Deployment Stories
(Section to be modified)
2010
Kenya Arid zone Primary School deployment mission starting early 2010:
OLPC Workshop for Education Officers in Tuvalu January 21-22, 2010 (87p, 1.21MB)
ClassActs story about Maroantsetra, Madagascar by Sameer Verma, prepared as part of an assignment by students at San Francisco State University
2009
Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post, and here!)
Very up-to-date OLPC Nauru reportage and May 2009 29-page DRAFT REPORT File:Leeming-Nauru-OLPC-Apr-May-2009-Report (draft 1).pdf fostered by David Leeming. (video)
See also his (1) OLPC Solomon Islands work (2) Teacher tips/XS/Solar summary and (3) Community Radio idea!
DRAFT FLIER/CHAPTER File:XOsflyer3.pdf by Scott Carollo of Gallaudet Univ Art Dept, with help from Kevin Cole and Caryl Bigenho's original writeup on Pakistan.
DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #2 (using Scribus, SVerma): File:Story-layout-test-sverma.pdf with his graphics materials File:Booksprint-layout-stuff-by-sverma.zip
DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #3 (JGay): File:Book-draft-layout-by-jgay.pdf
DRAFT LAYOUT PROPOSAL #4: 1000-XO Deployment Story in File:Dujiangyan-Sichuan-China.pdf by OLPC Asia / Hong Kong (18-page PDF, June 2009)
XOs in El Salvador: A community deployment in Chalatenango (Presentation to http://OLPCLearningClub.org DC by Jeff Elkner, Sept 19th 2009). Also available in PDF: File:XOs in El Salvador.pdf
Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? Includes video. Summary by Michael Trucano, World Bank's Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist. Discussing Miguel Brechner's 19-page slide presentation "One Laptop per Child and per Teacher" here: File:2162969-uruguay-plan-ceibal.pdf
Beth Santos' impressive Sao Tome deployment presentation from Dec 30, 2009: File:Olpc-in-sao-joao--sao-tome.pdf (1.26MB) and blog summary
December 2009's Babson College project report on Strategies for Sugar deployments in US schools: report (66 pages, 412KB), presentation (35 pages, 655KB)
Heroic Waveplace/OLPC deployment stories in Nicaragua: http://waveplace.org/news/blog/archive/cat_location_nicaragua.jsp Excellent summary of their approach, whose structure is likely evolving for their post-earthquake work in Haiti.
Translation Success Story! (english auto-translation) in French
2008
Final Report Evaluation of OLPC in Solomon Islands (PDF)
2007
"Got Implementation?" Nepal article from Jan 2007 incl fun logo!
In Spanish
Excellent "La Laptop XO En El Aula" by Sdenka Salas in Peru. See also English translation & others, eg. this NEW 31-page XO starter guide. (15MB)
(to be moved)
Uruguay/Ceibal's impact/implications booklet (hilarious cartoons!)
UNESCO funded Uruguay/Ceibal book [1](photo-gallery) 2(slideshow)
Uruguay's colorful 48-page starter guide: "Manual Basico XO" (2da edicion) (2.5MB)
"Proyecto Flor de Ceibo" (Uruguay's March 2009 report)
Mexico's Mochilla Digital workshops. Includes presentation, workshop lesson plans, participants workbooks. Good presentation of constructionism. [2]. Three teachers workshop guides, second one has extensive coverage of Constructionism, Collaborative Learning, and Project Based Learning. Way too long...might be excellent if translated and condensed. All produced by TelMex / Carlos Slim's foundation.
Mochilla Digital's "Tools" 19 Activity Guides plus extras. Some screen shots are from earlier versions of Sugar, but instructions are excellent. [3]
Peru's Teacher Topic Guides
Varios Recursos_en_espanol
VERY ROUGH DRAFT: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ClassActs (HTML), http://en.flossmanuals.net/ClassActs/ClassActs.pdf (~100 pages / 100+ MB, as of Sept 2009)
Please add other resources, with links if possible, to the above list. Please feel free to add comments about any of these resources if you wish. Additionally, if you feel the resource has potential material to include in a future instructional DVD for new XO users, please mark the resource "+DVD."