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Remote Pilot Deployment:

Lubang,Occidental Mindoro,Philippines

eKindling is collaborating with OLPC Friends and OLPC-NZ(New Zealand) in bringing the first remote school Pilot in the Philippines. This will be made possible through the generous fund raising and contributions by current and former National Computer Center employees with the leadership of Meg Simpson. The goal is to deploy 100 laptops to 4 classrooms in the school.

eKindling and OLPC Educational Project Milestone

  • Result of the first Lubang meeting
    • Lubang Educational Project: [1]
  • Deployment Ground Breaking:5 Day Teacher's Training [2]
    • Debrief Notes: 5-day eKindling Teacher Training [3]

Donor's List

The Lubang OLPC Pilot has been made possible by generous donations from current and former employees of the National Computer Center. This is all for the love of the current Mayor of Lubang, Juan M Sanchez . Mayor Sanchez was the founder and first Managing Director of the National Computer Center.

Friends of Lubang eKindling OLPC Deployment

Donor's List
Name Pesos US Dollar Aus Dollar
1. Susan Abaya 1 2 3
2. Mon Acebes 2 4 6
3. Jing and Bing Acosta 3 6 9
4. Ting Alberto 4 8 12
5. Fides Alviar 5 10 15
6. Bella Amurao-Box 5 10 15
7. Art & Reggie Aquino 5 10 15
8. Jopine Atienza 5 10 15
9. Jane Moraleda Avila 5 10 15
10. Sonya Badiola 5 10 15
11. Willie Badiola 5 10 15
12. Jun Banan 5 10 15
13. Bhoy and Cora Barretto 5 10 15
14. Bot Bautista 5 10 15
15. Ping Bayani 5 10 15
16. Dency Wong Bermas 5 10 15
17. Soc and Weet Brazal 5 10 15
18. Thicz Tiotuyco, Linda Navarro, Shiony Binamira, Luchi & Mario Lavin 5 10 15
19. Rico Carmona 5 10 15
20. Christy Castro 5 10 15
21. Charles Chan 5 10 15
22. Seny Coad 5 10 15
23. Ruben Cortez 5 10 15
24. Lorna and Cesar de Jesus 5 10 15
25. Angie (Yeye) de Lara 5 10 15
26. Alex de leon 5 10 15
27. Flor Parel del Rosario 5 10 15
28. Toch dela Torre(In Memory of Emilyn) 5 10
29. Margaret Echevarria 5 10 15
30. Letty Enriquez-Mary 5 10 15
31. Bien Espino 5 10 15
32. Nymia & John Eunson 5 10 15
33. Marie and Manny Evasco 5 10 15
34. Robert Felipe 5 10 15
35. Rey Galvez 5 10 15
36. Ann Gatmaytan 5 10 15
37. Liz Lejarde Gonzalez 5 10 15
38. Linda Hill 5 10 15
39. Tom and Epay Lara 5 10 15
40. Tommy Lara 5 10 15
41. Marissa Legaspi 5 10 15
42. JJ Lindaya 5 10 15
43. Maria Zaida Lopez 5 10 15
44. Rene Macaraeg 5 10 15
45. Danny Manahan 5 10 15
46. Boots Manansala 5 10 15
47. Didi Manarang 5 10 15
48. Rene & Yael Manongdo 5 10 15
49. Leo Mascarinas 5 10 15
50. Shala Miran 5 10 15
51. Irma Modesto 5 10 15
52. Edna Murillo 5 10 15
53. Angel Naval 5 10 15
54. Lyle and Nane Nebre 5 10 15
55. Jun and Amie Ofrecio 5 10 15
56. Tess and Palatz Palatino 5 10 15
57. Robert Pangilinan 5 10 15
58. Nerissa Pato 5 10 15
59. Nene & Med Pestano 5 10 15
60. PMA Class '55 5 10 15
61. Lydia Pons 5 10 15
62. Cosme and Evelyn Purugganan 5 10 15
63. Dodie Quiaoit 5 10 15
64. Mr & Mrs Elmer Ramos 5 10 15
65. Jorge Reyes 5 10 15
66. Col Bert Rodriguez and Nini Rodrigues 5 10 15
67. Flor Parel del Rosario 5 10 15
68. Augusto & Yoly Roxas 5 10 15
69. Roy Rubio 5 10 15
70. Vangie Saludares 5 10 15
71. Peps Regalado San Gabriel 5 10 15
72. Natie Sanchez 5 10 15
73. Col Sanchez' Children 5 10 15
74. Evelyn Sangueza 5 10 15
75. Gerard and Violy Santuico 5 10 15
76. Jowee Sarmenta & family 5 10 15
77. Al See 5 10 15
78. Meg Simpson & the late Ron Simpson 5 10 15
79. NCC Sydney Reunion Raffle 5 10 15
80. NCC Sydney Reunion Surplus 5 10 15
81. Gerry Tagunicar 5 10 15
82. Leonora Pacheco Tamoro 5 10 15
83. Bella Tan 5 10 15
84. Ramon Tanafranca 5 10 15
85. Thelma & Jun Tiongson 5 10 15
86. Abe and Didi Tomas 5 10 15
87. Cynthia A Topacio 5 10 15
88. Myra Florendo Van Vactor 5 10 15
89. Liza Villagonzalo 5 10 15
90. Ley Villamor 5 10 15
91. Boy and Nikki Villanueva 5 10 15
92. Rolly (Govs) Villanueva 5 10 15
93. Sherill (Gov's daughter) Villanueva 5 10 15
94. Joey Yap 5 10 15

School Profile

Lubang Integrated School

  • Information on Lubang: [4]
  • Location: Barangay Araw at Bituin Lubang, Philippines
  • Total Number of Students in the School: 603
  • Number of Students who will participate in the program: 93
  • Number of Teachers participating: 7
  • Number of computers in the classroom: 2
  • Internet Connection: Wired, Broadband


Collaborating Members and Institutions (pls. add additional information)

  • Ryan Letada: eKindling, Philippines
  • Harvy Viray: University of the Philippines
  • Tessa Yuvienco: Headway School
  • Joel Yuvienco: Miriam College, Asian University Digital Resource Network
  • Mitch Seaton: OLPC Friends (Sydney, Australia)
  • OLPC-New Zealand
  • Cherry Withers: Squeakland/eKindling, USA
  • Meg Simpson: Representative of current and former employees of the National Computer Center.
  • Col. Sanchez: Mayor of Lubang
  • Marife Mago: eKindling, OLPC-NYC, USA

Project Checklist

  • Initial Deployment Checklist: Done by Mitch Seaton, Meg Simpson & Col. Sanchez. Date: 8/26/2009
  • Lubang Consultation Visit: Ryan Letada, Tessa Yuvienco & Harvy Viray. Date: 11/24/2009-11/26/2009
  • Curriculum Integration Development and Moodle Set-up
  • Teacher Training Program

5-day Teacher Training Schedule

First Day

Morning

Participants:

Class A (Teachers as participants, Instructor: Tessa Yuvienco)

Estimated Time: 2 hours

I. Discover

  1. Welcome Participants
  2. History/Background of Project (Video)
  3. Facilitators and Participants Introduction
  4. Leveling/Setting of expectations (K-W-L worksheet)
  5. Overview of the course and its framework
  6. Formulation/Negotiation of Realistic/Achievable Goals

II. Disclose 

  * Participant's Inventory of Learning Styles
  * Show-and-Tell of Students' Learning Styles and Teaching Methodologies
  * Revisit of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
  * Focus on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Class B (Hardware Support Team & Children, Instructor: Cherry Withers) 

  * NAND Blasting to update the Sugar Firmware
  * Running of Diagnostics
  * Dis-assembly/Assembly of an XO 1.0
  * Hardware Comparison of XO 1.0 and XO 1.5
  * Wifi Trouble Shooting

Afternoon Participants: Everyone Instructor: Cherry Withers

a) Hardware Introduction 

   * Opening, closing, “ears”
   * eBook format
   * Starting / shut down
   * Screen rotate
   * Volume and Brightness
   * Trouble shooting Restarting if in difficulty
   * Hard (forced) reboots
   * Going in/out of sleep mode
   * Charging and battery monitoring
   * Basic Troubleshooting: jumpy cursor, power issues


b) Sugar Environment Introduction 

   * The 4 Views of the Frame
   * Different Views of Activities
   * Customizing via the Control Panel
   * Functions
   * Sharing
   * Inviting
   * Intro to the Journal
   * Help activity

c) How to reinstall the laptop operating system and activities with a prepared flash drive 2nd Day Morning 

   * Finding and connecting to access points
   * Checking connection status via Frame view
   * Starting and coordinating a shared activity
   * Joining a shared activity: Use Chat
   * Inviting someone

Afternoon 

   * Copying files to/from Journal with flash drive
   * Awareness of memory, checking memory usage
   * Renaming and deleting files in journal
   * Using Public Internet: cautionary use, what is open source
   * Accessing the OLPC wiki laptop activities
   * and collections pages from Browse

3rd Day (Activities and Curriculum Integration) Instructor: Cherry Withers Morning 

   * Speak
   * Paint
   * Measure
   * Chat
   * Memorize

  1.  built-in games
  2.  building games

   * Stopwatch, Ruler
   * Clockgame
   * TamTamMini (maybe)
   * Calculate
   * Poll
   * Record: 

  1. Take a video introduction, name the video
  2. Take "All about Me" photos, name each file

   * Write

  1. Incorporate the photos taken from the Record Activity
  2. Writing text, Editing Text
  3. Shared Editing (Illustrate group collaboration on editing)

Afternoon 

   * Finding and downloading other activities


4th Day Morning 

   * Introduction to Etoys
         o - Saving and Opening projects
         o - Paint Tool
         o - Book: Inserting Pictures, Inserting pages and text
   * Accessing projects by other people and running the projects

Afternoon Instructor: Hamilton Chua 

  1. Introduction to the XS. What is it ? How does it help you ?
         * Central storage
         * Collaboration
         * Management
  2. Registering your XO Laptop
         * how to register an xo
         * logging in
         * troubleshooting registration
  3. Your Moodle Profile page
         * Filling up profile information
         * Backup Tab, briefly describe how backups work


5th Day Instructor: Hamilton Chua 

  1. Understanding Roles
  2. Customizing a course
         * adding resources
         * adding activities
         * customize aspects of the course
  3. Grouping Students
  4. Adding a lesson
  5. Adding an exam Restoring from a backup
  6. When a laptop gets lost
         * where's the data ?
         * restoring into a new laptop
         * linking users

Location

  • Accessibility of the School from Metro Manila: 30mins. by Plane, 7 hours by ship

<googlemap lat="13.854143" lon="120.108504" type="normal" zoom="10"> 13.865, 120.108504 Bituin Lubang, Philippines please zoom out to see location better </googlemap>

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