Contributing content
Sharing content and learning materials through OLPC
The One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) is gathering quality educational content for distribution around the world to the children who will be using the OLPC laptop computers.
To discuss the possibility of offering your content to the One Laptop per Child project, or to find out more about running a laptop exercise in your classroom, please write to iste@laptop.org.
If you have suggestions for educational content that you think somebody should develop, then please add them to the Educational content ideas page. The list below is only for content which already exists and whose owners have donated it to the OLPC project.
Stories
- The International Children's Digital Library (1000 books in a few languages, mainly English)
- Aesop, Grimm, Anderson
- Cultural works and epics : Homer, Edas
- Religious and works and epics
Reference works
Interesting Data Sets
(Or localized alternatives)
- connectives (prepositions, pronouns, and the like)
- web2- Webster's Second International English wordlist
- web2a- Webster's Second Internations appendix english wordlist
- propernames- some common proper names
- airport- list of three letter codes for some major airports
- birthtoken- traditional stone and flower for each month
- inter.phone- international country telephone codes
- cities.dat- geographic coordinates of many major cities
- postal.codes- postal codes for US and Mexican states and
- languages- two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639
- currency- currency abbreviations and names
- countries- country abbreviations and names and capital cities
- jargon.html- The Jargon file (same as the _Hacker's_Dictionary_)
- us-constitution- The Constitution of the United States of America
- us-declaration- The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
- Project Gutenberg Data
- http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/8
Dictionaries
- List of Words in Spanish
- http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~coes/espell_leame/espell_leame.html
Grady Ward's dictionaries:
- Moby Hyphenation List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3204
- Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3206
- Moby Part of Speech List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3203
- Moby Pronunciation List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3205
- Moby Thesaurus List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3202
- Moby Word Lists (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3201
- The Logos multilingual dictionary, a GFDL dictionary in 200+ languages.
- The Indic Family of Languages project
- I am thrilled by this project. I make available my multi-lingual comparative dictionary for over 25 ancient languages with hundreds of thousands of words for use on the laptop. I also offer this to google for use since google supports the one laptop per child project. Congratulations, Nicholas Negroponte and his team for initiating this project. Best wishes for a successful launch.
- -- S. kalyanaraman, Ph.d. Sarasvati Research Centre, Srinagar Colony, Chennai 600015 kalyan97 at gmail.com
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
- Wikipedia (and subsets of it)
- The Wikipedia Schools CD (2006 articles)
- The One encyclopedia per child project to design a concise snapshot of Wikipedia content
- Other encyclopedia projects...
Atlases and Maps
Texts and instructional material
Including illustrations -- graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, &c.
Music and Mathematics
Logo Challenges
- Logo Challenges. I created this set of Logo challenges. Maybe the project will find it valuable.
Language learning
Reading, spelling, writing; reading comprehension, from alphabets to serious textual analysis. Including sounds, and images -- pronunciations, songs with lyrics, fonts. Also including: first languages, second and further languages, advanced language : literature and poetry.
Visual arts
Other Science and Humanities
Images
General
- Wikimedia Commons - 500,000 freely licensed images, sound, and video files
Also including : Photographs of the world, images of people, other works of art, sketches, diagrams, blueprints.
Media
Recordings, compositions, from Nature, &c; Video from the world; of performances; animations
Software and more
General education
- GCompris educational software package : I am the author of the education software GCompris (for children from 2 to 10). In fact, many activities are useful for first users whatever their age. Of course, GCompris is free software released under the GPL. It is developed and maintained by a small community. I would like to know if GCompris makes sense for the OLPC project. If so, I will make the effort to adapt it in order to suit the OLPC platform.
- I wish the best to your project. Regards, Bruno Coudoin
About the One Laptop per Child project
For more information about the project, see the overview of OLPC and list of current events on this site. There is also a static website with basic background information and images at www.laptop.org.