Content projects/websites/details
The intent of this page is to gather references and source of content that can be used to demo the XO around.
Currently, the constraints are:
- In english (the intended targets are Nigeria and Rwanda
- In spanish (the intended targets are Argentina and Uruguay).
- In portuguese (the intended target is Brazil)
- Open - compatible Creative Commons licenses are: CC-Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) & CC-Attribution (by)
- Subjects (in descending priorities) literacy, math, health, great images, geography/science/landmarks/art/history
Literacy
Translation Dictionary for Children, based on Logos Dictionary: http://www.logosdictionary.org/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.kdic.alfabeto2?code_language=EN
Replacement images can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/2/27/Translation_Dictionary_Images.txt
http://www.fullbooks.com contains many books in full-text (copyright status unknown).
Math
[http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/mathhome.html http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/funmath.html] - Some simple math exercises geared toward parents trying to informally teach their youngish children. (US gov)
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/index.asp - an online graphing tool (for kids?). Can be used to make any sort of graph I gather, some of the descriptions at page top may be culturally specific. (US Gov)
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/grabbag/math_teasers/challenge.asp - math problems, kind of fun for kids. For some reason they seemed to be Italy themed. (US Gov)
http://www.nsa.gov/teachers/teach00006.cfm - NSA Collected learning units. Some cultural specificity, but also some good didactic activities. (US Gov)
[1] - Soccer related math activities for kids
Health
The milk matters campaign! (Some decent kids materials, re: calcium, brushing teeth.) [2]
NiH curriculum supplements. Needs to be parsed extensively, there are some amazing interactive activities. Deserves more examination. [3]
Great Images
- Actually this is part of a collection of several CD's published by educ.ar that (afaik) holds the copyrights... I tried to determine the actual license but didn't find any.
Other
http://www.free.ed.gov/ - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Primarily a portal to free educational resources, often to US Gov't sites (which are free license).
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html - The helping your child series, from the US Dept. of Ed. Its good stuff, though directed to adults instead of kids. Still, easy enough to understand, and fun enough to include?
http://teams.lacoe.edu - almost certainly free, electronic classrooms from Los Angeles Country Dept. of Ed. Good stuff. Direct link to the classrooms.<http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/classrooms.html>
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm - Scholastic (not free), however we're in talks to receive some of their content.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ - Decent site, lots of (primarily lesson plans) with what appear to be an excellent collection of activities. (by NC license).
Geography
http://www.davidrumsey.com/ - Huge collection of maps, nearly 15,000 of them(!!), from numerous historical periods. (NC license - I believe.)
Science
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ - Interactive solar system exploration. English and Spanish. Has a low bandwidth version. (US Gov)
http://nsdl.org/browse/?GEM_cat=true - National Science Digital Library collections by topic. (primarily National Science foundation, hard to determine copyright issues).
Landmarks
Art
History
Multiple areas
- This is a CD titled "Activities with Free Software" (Actividades con Software Libre) with subjects ranging mathematics, language, drawing and transportation/road-sign codes.
- This is a Chilean publisher with text subjects in math, science, language, and social science (uses CC licensing).