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Contribute Health Information for Children To the One Laptop per Child content library
One Laptop per Child is now accepting open-source educational materials pertaining to health and appropriate for children ages 6 through 12. Your materials shipped on OLPC laptops to educate children worldwide!
Materials should:
- be free and open-source for worldwide distribution
- have an emphasis on audiovisual presentation for a young audience
- if possible, be interactive and encourage creativity and hands-on learning
- if possible, be available in multiple languages (translators are available through OLPC)
- classroom activities and curriculum materials are welcome
- materials that utilize the laptops features (built-in microphone, camera, oscilloscope) are welcome
Relevant topics include:
- Physiology and body systems/functions
- Water and sanitation (e.g., water testing and filtration, village-scale water treatment, latrines)
- Hygiene
- Nutrition
- Infectious diseases
- Indoor cooking and air quality
- First aid and "field" medicine
Further examples of relevant health topics can be found in Where There Is No Doctor and other texts from the Hesperian Foundation:
An example of child-appropriate materials in the OLPC library can be found here: E.O. Wilson Foundation's "Biomes of the Earth," (see also Biology (collection)) a pictoral presentation library of the Earth's ecosystems.
For questions and to submit materials to the library, please contact: content at laptop dot org
Questions and Guidelines
for contributors (to add to the above?):
- Including and customizing a version of the Hesperian Foundation guidelines for simplified writing
- Adding interface guidelines for helping direct people to available health information.
- How to use a wiki-like structure to link together available chapters.
- Age appropriateness of existing materials : adding material and interactive projects for young readers over time.
- Working with Appropedia and Howtopedia for simpler presentation of information, and for individual or small-group projects.
