ClassActs/Resources
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Please add other resources, with links if possible, to the following 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."
In English
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
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)
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
Very up-to-date OLPC_Nauru fostered by David Leeming. (video) Ask him also for his fantastic draft "Leeming-Nauru-OLPC-Apr-May-2009-Report (draft 1).pdf"
The Librarian Chick's free textbook catalog
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2009/04/nandblastear/ NANDblaster if you want to flash a software image onto many XO's at once.
In French (or Google translated from French)
Gabon/FranXOphonie Pedagogic Guide, Google Translation to English, OLPC France's Wikified version (by Kaçandre Bourdelais, in French)
In Spanish
Uruguay/Ceibal's impact/implications booklet (hilarious cartoons!)
A set of images of pages from the Uruguay/Ceibal book on Flickr for somewhat easier browsing 1
A Flickr slideshow of the Uruguay/Ceibal book book pages 2
Uruguay's colorful 48-page starter guide: "Manual Basico XO" (2da edicion)
Mexico's Mochilla Digital workshops. Includes presentation, workshop lesson plans, participants workbooks. Good presentation of constructionism. [1]
Mochilla Digital's "Tools" 19 Activity Guides plus extras. Some screen shots are from earlier versions of Sugar, but instructions are excellent. [2]
Peru's Teacher Topic Guides