ClassActs
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The OLPC/Sugar community will be creating a Mini-Deployment Guide for technically-strong teachers, with more vivid photographs and illustrations than anything our community has yet produced.This idea arose from our Support Gang volunteers wanting to pull together our community's greatest work over the last 2 years, to give classrooms and after-school programs _the_ very best creative tools out there.
The guide will be short and professional, possibly only 30 pages long -- drawing on innovations from successful rollouts around the world -- with separately downloadable chapters. It will enable entrepreneurial teachers in small schools to begin formulating real-world plans jumpstarting 21st century learning using XO Laptops. We'll be working extremely hard (business hours) for 5 days straight (Monday thru Friday) then socializing most every evening, exploring the Washington DC area with groups like:
- OLPC Learning Club
- hacDC.org
- tux.org luglist including NoVALUG.com meeting early Saturday AM
- others...
For some sense of how a book sprint works, see the Book Sprints manual on the FLOSS Manuals web site.
Join a Historic Book Sprint
Evening events open to all, and they WILL be memorable, guaranteed. If you also want to dedicate yourself to our work sessions, please email holt @ laptop.org or grassroots @ lists.laptop.org explaining your skills in shaping a Quality Product -- along with a bit about how and why you want to make a difference :)
Possible Book Titles
(Very Tentative)
20 Cool Class Acts With XO Laptops: Real Success Stories from Real Schools Using Real XO Computers
Written By: The Real People Who Are Using them
Compiled And Edited By: The OLPC Support Gang
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Practical Classy Constructionism with OLPC XOs Across the World
Needs
- Ready to contribute to a chapter ? sign up here, please
- ALL Related Manuals you can find -- whose ideas we should crib
- READ: "how to conduct an effective book sprint"
- Graphics Designers (inkscape, gimp, whatever)
- Graphics Librarian to help organize key photos/illustrations from: http://flickr.com/olpc/sets
- Experienced:
- Tech Writers
- Tech to "Grannie" translators!
- Copy Editors
- Photographs, Illustrations & Screenshots!!
- Tech Writers
- Blog to Invite DC and World
- MONGO HAPPY NOW shirts for OLPC/Sugar proselytizers crafting miracles the world doesn't yet see
- Think like a Librarian?! Please help sort/aggregate Fantastic resources in preparation:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Deployment_Resources http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Resources http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_Technical_Manual http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide/Workbook http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_FAQ Uruguay/Ceibal's impact/implications booklet (hilarious cartoons!) 1 2 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/How_to_present_sugar http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Documentation_Projects http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/ Click around this colorful, well illustrated elementary ed. curriculum site from down under, for set up and organizational ideas. Cambridge_Friends_School 4 Summary Docs (at bottom of mailing list post) GuideXOGabon2.pdf Pedagogic Guide (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French, not yet published]) Billy's Gorgeous 4p Intro Sheets (UC Berkeley, Uganda, not yet published) File:OLPC Deployment Guide -- jul09.pdf from Michael Hutak, based on Walter Bender's The Librarian Chick's free textbook catalog
- Post-production (lulu.com sales, chapters that stand alone as PDF case studies, e-book for XO and beyond?)
Table of Contents
moved to this page
Likely Attendees (identify topic you want to help with!)
- Mel Chua
- Kevin Cole (how to bridge open-source culture for teachers; Gallaudet Univ facilities)
- Paul Commons
- Sarah Elkins, OLPC Learning Club DC, maybe Monday
- Luke Faraone (labor day + setup; finding whiteboard or posterboard to facilitate Sunday Sept 6 freezing of TOC)
- David Farning (invited)
- Cathy Ginther, AARP Managing Editor (Friday only)
- Adam Holt (event logistics & community coordination, professional speakerphone w/ Kevin Cole?)
- George Hunt, Tech Educator from NYC (repair & troubleshooting, explaining community repair center entrepreneur Ian Daniher's OLPCinci success story)
- SJ Klein (evening event at http://hacDC.org w/ MLee; follow-on books?
- Mike Lee (Attending Monday and Friday for sure and evening events; live blogging and photographing of events; large Posters)
- Phoebe Bennett from OLPC Learning Club (can come by during the weekdays to help. martialing Arlington PTA families for future sales?)
- Kim Toufectis from OLPC Learning Club (can come by Monday or Friday to help with writing)
- Pat Paul of the OLPC Learning Club (can come by during the weekdays to help with writing)
- Yamandu Ploskonka (involving NEW teachers in the developing world, with no prior computer experience; what would current deployers have liked to know IN ADVANCE)
- Sameer Verma (pending flight)
- Seth Woodworth (invited)
- DancesWithCars (disability /accessibility/ readability testing, to learn & how to help, etc)
- Bobby Powers (can come nights & sunday, has a 3x4 foot whiteboard, help where needed)
Remote Attendees (identify topic you want to help with!)
- Caryl Bigenho, Los Angeles/Montana (human interest stories, geekspeak-to-English "geekolater" / translator, arrange possible remote conferencing options with Kevin Cole)
- Albert Chen, China
- Sandy Culver, Massachusetts
- Christoph Derndorfer, Austria/Nepal
- Daniel Drake, UK/Nepal
- Sebastian Dziallas, Germany
- Pablo Flores?, Uruguay/Asia
- Rita Freudenberg, Germany (will provide Etoys article, probably how it is used in Peru or Uruguay)
- Billy Grissom, Uganda
- David Leeming, South Pacific (will provide OLPC Oceania materials)
- Christine Mary, New York/Albany/RIT? (communications/outreach themes?)
- Nancie Severs, New Hampshire (editing? photography, deployment best practices? Vietnam?)
- Bryan Stuart, Indiana
- Sandra Thaxter, Massachusetts (final editing, logistics/import/NGO relations?)
- DancesWithCars/UncleCrazy Mount Vernon, Virginia (will see, maybe some proofing?, some remote, as VA requires a passport to cross the river to the wilds of Virginia ;-/)
- Edward Mokurai Cherlin, Earth Treasury, California. Discovery
- James Goldsmith, Melbourne, Australia (Graphics & Communication Design, Publications, Typography,.. all things design)
Schedule
Thinking of a 24x7 +timezone for remotes? grid with day, time, participants, locations (onsite, offsite social, etc),
prep (needs, wants, deadlines, guidelines, etc)
TOC Finalizing
Sept 6 Sunday: Dinner to meet fellow writers Sept 7 Monday: Labor Day (no holiday for us!) Sept 8 Tuesday: Sept 9 Wednesday: Sept 10 Thursday: Sept 11 Friday: National Day of Service (no holiday for us!)
Followup Maintainers Translations Book Pimps, PR, etc...
Daytime/Workroom Venue
- Gallaudet University (confirmed!) Specifically, the Sorensen Language and Communication Center (SLCC) in the appropriately binary room 1101.
It's a 6-to-7-minute walk between Gallaudet and the nearest subway station. Other options for traveling between Gallaudet and elsewhere include the Gallaudet shuttle (visitors passes as soon as we know who's coming and needs one), or Metrobus. See also, general visitors information and my crude Google Map with building markings and shuttle route. Food service on campus is provided by Bon Appetit. (Some broken links there, but I *hope* that's because the school year hasn't started yet, which it will be by the time folks arrive.)
Friendly venues for possible later activities:
- Washington Metro Area Transit Authority a.k.a. "Metro" Rail, Bus, ParaTransit = Access
- DC Circulator 2 Loops Georgetown to Union Station (East West), North South (?-?)
- Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport (Reagan on MetroRail, Dulles Shuttle
- BWI Baltimore Washington International Airport, w/ MetroBusses & MARC trains to DC
- Union Station (Amtrak, MARC Commuter train (Baltimore & Brunswick, and Metro)
- VRE Virginia Rail Extension? Down to Fredricksburg, Richmond
- DC Government Visitors Resource Center (such as it is)
- Go DC Go!
- Water Taxi - between Old Town Alexandria and National Harbor (+future Disney DC?)
- SmartBikeDC - Bike Shares (yearly membership $40, weeks advanced registration for smart card to check out for 3 hours each time... i.e. plan ahead to join) in North West DC near MetroRail
- ChinaTown Buses, to/from Chinatown/Gallery Place MetroRail, cheaper bus transit options to/from NYC, Philadelphia, PA Richmond, VA and some allow bikes
Parks & Recreation, Evening Tête-a-Têtes
Do suggest Great humble Restaurants & Evening Itineraries!
Parks
- Rock Creek Park DC to Maryland
- Capital Crescent Trail DC to MD
- C & O Canal DC to MD
- National Zoo (Pandas?)
- Mount Vernon Trail Alexandria to Mt Vernon,VA
- US National Arboretum NE DC
- Taste of India restaurant (The owner is a friend of Open Source) NW DC near Zoo
- The Brickskeller Dining House & Down Home Saloon - a 17-page menu, with only one page being food. ;-)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial - as monuments and memorials go, this one is actually worth going to. DC
Transit /Tours
- Bike the Sites - bike rentals and tours, DC & Old Town, Alexandria, VA.
- DC Ducks- tours in original WW II DUKW amphibious vehicles
Maryland:
- Takoma Park Folk Festival (post-sprint: Sunday, September 13)
- Dave & Buster's (White Flint Metro station)
- National Harbor (via water taxi from Old Town Alexandria,VA)
Virginia:
- The Birchmere Arlandria, VA,
- Old Town Alexandria (King Street Metro station) some free DASH buses/ trolley like buses to Torpedo factory and water taxi below
For the clubbers: DC
- The 9:30 Club DC
- The Black Cat DC U Street area
- Georgetown (GWU Foggy Bottom, Circulator)
- [1] [2] Obama & Fenty visited, U Street Cordozo MetroRail
Guides
- The Washington City Paper - Find your own fun.
- <add suggestions here>
Accommodations
Until the White House accepts us, we instead recommend:
- Hostels.com
- Great Affordable Bed & Breakfasts
- holt @ laptop.org may have friends!
- Mel Chua
Food Stuff Stores
Have a particular diet, vegan, adventurist, etc?
- Trader Joes
- Whole Foods
- LocalHarvest may have farmers markets,
DC Farmers Market outside Galluadet Eastern Market near Capital Hill
Online Delivery Services (check limited area?)
- Safeway.com chain
- GiantFoods.com chain
Cafes
Meeting places, food, maybe wifi?
Bookstores
Some have cafes & internet
- Politics And Prose NW DC cafe downstairs, book signings, press videos
- Reiters High Tech professional & medical books, Downtown Farragut West MetroRail - GWU/ Georgetown
Computer Stores
Need parts/ supplies/ etc?
- MicroCenter a superstore Vienna MetroRail, Pan Am Shopping Center, Nutley St, Vienna, VA & Rockville, MD
Local Rags & Media
Other media for connections, samples, maybe someone does a story on sprint process?
- StreetSense.org homeless & poor community paper, office near MetroCenter & homeless vendors usually near Rail stations, poverty related...
- WashingtonPost.com Big Mega Media
- The Washington City Paper - Find your own fun.
- Public Access
- DCTV (Brookland/Catholic University of America MetroRail, Red LineNE DC)
- NPR (where? was Braddock Road Yellow & Blue Lines, 1 up from King St, Alexandria, VA)
- Newseum $$$ tours, print media, etc new building in downtown Central Business District, Penn Ave NW, DC
- etc
Please Join Our Online Venues Today!
- Join our weekly Sunday 4PM EDT prep calls if you can help shape this deeply inspiring week! (contact holt @ laptop.org)
- support-gang@laptop.org
- grassroots@lists.laptop.org
- #olpc-help and #sugar
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