OLPC:News/2008/Week 8

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^ Overview

 Progress in Mongolia with ICDL libraries.
 A strong grassroots community is coming together in Peru, thanks to user:sebastian. 
 Over 50 people came to the first gathering, and about half that number have written into 
 voluntario /at/ laptop asking to help out.

x Synergies

opportunities, people, engagements

I met with David Jasmin of LAMS/LAMAP, a pedagogical organization based in France aimed at improving learning and teaching in French schools, on Sunday. We ended up talking for a few hours; and found a good deal in common. He has been trying to make collaborative online authoring projects succeed, in French and other languages, since the 1990s. He feels that these days there are good zero-barrier-to-entry projects and that the older structured projects may find some new life.

We agreed to work on a few specific things:

1. find some spanish-language materials that can be shared with Peru; get someoen from LAMAP directly in touch with the pedagogy team there (underway)
2. start a wikibooks project with their material on how to teach science in primary school - perhaps focusing on 5-10 topics covered in their publications and making that available in a few languages while an existing educational wiki community (wikiversity + wikibooks, perhaps) builds some structure — a project description, a group with timelines and goals. (Todo: select ~5 topics or chapters) In the meantime, there has been some renewed interest within wikieducator and wikiversity, which is promising]
3. share some of the work from collaborative projects David has started / organized over the past 10 years. They haven't all been successful, but most were more structured and harder to join than a wiki. all have been intended to be openly-licensed; and David was interested to learn that the current open content communities would

/love/ this sort of material.

· Artefacts

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= Fundament

status, deadlines, assumptions, processes

+ Priorities

milestones, sequences, first and next

o Reflection

review, updates, analysis, feedback