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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.

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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. Nina & Armand Abaya 200.00
2. Susan Abaya 300.00
3. Mon Acebes 100.00
4. Jing and Bing Acosta 100.00
5. Ting Alberto 50.00
6. Fides Alviar 100.00
7. Bella Amurao-Box 311.75
8. Art & Reggie Aquino 100.00
9. Jopine Atienza 100.00
10. Jane Moraleda Avila 100.00
11. Sonya Badiola 200.00
12. Willie Badiola 20.00
13. Jun Banan 300.00
14. Bhoy and Cora Barretto 200.00
15. Bot Bautista 100.00
16. Ping Bayani 150.00
17. Dency Wong Bermas 100.00 2.50
18. Soc and Weet Brazal 316.00
19. Thicz Tiotuyco, Linda Navarro, Shiony Binamira, Luchi & Mario Lavin 11,700.00
20. Rico Carmona 300.00
21. Christy Castro 100.00
22. Charles Chan 100.00
23. Seny Coad 100.00
24. Ruben Cortez 75.00
25. Lorna and Cesar de Jesus 50.00
26. Angie (Yeye) de Lara 101.00
27. Alex de leon 100.00
28. Flor Parel del Rosario 100.00
29. Toch dela Torre(In Memory of Emilyn) 600.00
30. Margaret Echevarria 300.00
31. Letty Enriquez-Mary 104.00
32. Bien Espino 200.00
33. Nymia & John Eunson 1,000.00
34. Marie and Manny Evasco 200.00
35. Robert Felipe 100.00
36. Rey Galvez 300.00
37. Ann Gatmaytan 123.95
38. Liz Lejarde Gonzalez 200.00
39. Linda Hill 350.00
40. Tom and Epay Lara 50.00
41. Tommy Lara 25.00
42. Marissa Legaspi 350.00
43. JJ Lindaya 330.00
44. Maria Zaida Lopez 100.00
45. Rene Macaraeg 100.00
46. Danny Manahan 5.00
47. Boots Manansala 300.00
48. Didi Manarang 100.00
49. Rene & Yael Manongdo 400.00
50. Leo Mascarinas 95.00
51. Shala Miran 50.00
52. Irma Modesto 100.00
53. Edna Murillo 100.00
54. Angel Naval 100.00
55. Lyle and Nane Nebre 120.00
56. Jun and Amie Ofrecio 322.20
57. Tess and Palatz Palatino 300.00
58. Robert Pangilinan 100.00
59. Nerissa Pato 300.00
60. Nene & Med Pestano 200.00
61. PMA Class '55 1200.00
62. Lydia Pons 10.000
63. Cosme and Evelyn Purugganan 1,540.00
64. Dodie Quiaoit 600.00
65. Mr & Mrs Elmer Ramos 335.00
66. Jorge Reyes 100.00
67. Col Bert Rodriguez and Nini Rodrigues 600.00
68. Augusto & Yoly Roxas 100.00
69. Roy Rubio 54.00
70. Vangie Saludares 300.00
71. Peps Regalado San Gabriel 25.00
72. Natie Sanchez 76.00
73. Col Sanchez' Children 1,000.00
74. Evelyn Sangueza 100.00
75. Gerard and Violy Santuico 100.00
76. Jowee Sarmenta & family 1,500.00
77. Al See 200.00
78. Meg Simpson & the late Ron Simpson 1,200.00
79. NCC Sydney Reunion Raffle 910.00
80. NCC Sydney Reunion Surplus 2,131.29
81. Gerry Tagunicar 300.00
82. Leonora Pacheco Tamoro 100.00
83. Bella Tan 350.00
84. Ramon Tanafranca 220.00
85. Thelma & Jun Tiongson 210.63
86. Abe and Didi Tomas 300.00
87. Cynthia A Topacio 100.00
88. Myra Florendo Van Vactor 200.00
89. Liza Villagonzalo 100.00
90. Ley Villamor 100.00
91. Boy and Nikki Villanueva 100.00
92. Rolly (Govs) Villanueva 100.00 225.00
93. Sherill (Gov's daughter) Villanueva 20.00
94. Joey Yap 300.00

School Profile

Lubang Integrated School

  • Information on Lubang: [3]
  • 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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