User:Lauren

About me

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

See also:

• Very old web page.
• Official work page and bio.

Projects

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
  • http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/howto/howto-howto.html
• Webclippy? Have webclippy people convert startup sheets, which involves...
  • Locating startup sheets (Adam Brandi) (emailed 5/24)

Clear/accurate Activity status

• Status box for OLPCWiki
• Template: Template:status box; example: TamTam.

Content ideas/submission

• Re-org of:
  • Educational content ideas
  • Educational activity ideas
  • Contributing content
• Wiki template and/or form for content submission
  • In progress: Template:content submission

Info/Volunteer Ops for Educators

In terms of audience...

1. Educators: teachers currently in the field and those about to receive XOs (along w/ OLPC staff and supporting orgs)

• Emphasis: support, self-documentation, journaling/blogging, collaboration and exchange.
• To be migrated to educator wiki: XO Teachers
• Tutorials for teachers, incl.
  • MediaWiki training (take from Globaloria site)
  • How to use activities
  • How to make activities
• Teacher Activity, might incl.
• Syndicated country/pilot blogs
• Personal user page, incl.
  • Instructions for getting started
  • Photo
  • Location/affiliation
  • Answers to questions

2. Developers: teachers who want to volunteer/create lesson plans/activities.

• Need to develop Educators
• Develop companion repository/"Educational Content Management" site. Features incl:
  • Activity/lesson template
  • Rating system
  • Discussion/feedback system
  • Search/sort/tag by subject, lesson type,
  • Example activities for Activities incl. in base install
• Educational activity guidelines]. Principles incl.
  • Constructionism
  • Collaboration
  • Iteration
  • "View Source"
  • Example activities from MMM?
• Lesson Plan Jam

In terms of activities...

1. Digital Activities 1a. Digital Activities w/ corresponding physical activity

2. Activities that expand/enhance existing exercise

Lowercase "a" activity development

• Guidelines for activity development (cf. OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines).
  • In progress (and should get a name change): Educational activity guidelines
• 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)

Ideas for volunteering/organizing

Moved to organizing organizing