OLPC NYC
OLPC New York
Local metro-area grassroots group
Events
XO is on a picnic mode @ Figment[1] Event Governor's Island, NYC!
Spend your day/family day on this artsy learning event.
Bring your XO's, picnic mats, chairs and kites!
WHEN: Saturday, June 12 — 10am – 6pm
WHERE: Governors Island, NYC… a free,short ferry-ride from lower Manhattan![2]
Activities
1. Explore XO activities
- Volunteers assist kids and families with XO and sugar activities.
2. Scheduled Turtle art and Etoys 101
- 10:00 am - 10:30 am - (Any volunteers?)
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - (Any volunteers?)
or at your preferred activity and time slot.
3. Deployment stories ( Share the learning experience of your own deployment to kids and family around!)
4. SoaS presentation and demo (Carolyn Meeks - if she smoothly moved :))
5. All day event - Free XO try out! Have fun and learn...
Volunteers are welcome to take any of the activities!
End of day activity Dinner...and plan for the next meet -up.
Are you coming?
Please sign here:
1. Ryan Letada
2. Adam Holt
3. Carolyn Meeks (tentative)
4. Marife Mago
Previous Activities
- Join OLPC/Sugar visionaries from DC, NY, Boston (and San Francisco!) converging on NY City for a Community Summit:
- Saturday November 21; 1 - 4PM
- The Church of St Mary the Virgin
- 3rd Floor Meeting Room, Mission House
- 133 West 46th Street
- (btn 6th and 7th Avenues)
- Google Map View
- Church Web Site
The 1PM formal presentation will include:
- OLPC's brand new XO 1.5 B2 Laptop
- Summary account of the 1 Million XO Laptops now shipped around the world
- Previews of upcoming Sugar Learning software
- Some directly personal explanations of our movement's strongly maturing "volunteer ladder".
- Come see some actual books written by our Community!
- - Participate and strategize around OLPC and Sugar's unheralded successes
- - Local Projects, and long-term forward path.
Presenters and Facilitators
- 12:30PM - early birds organize room (133 West 46th St, 3rd Flr)
- 1PM - Mike Lee - 30min - OLPC/Sugar backgrounder, DC experience & 2010 opportunities (arrive on time for our special guest!)
- Sameer Verma - 5min - San Francisco's similarly path-breaking approach
- Caroline Meeks - 10min - Learning Goals, how Sugar supports them, Teacher Training
- Adam Holt - 5min - Community Innovation for All (perspectives from my current 6-country OLPC/Sugar Learning journey)
- 2PM - Everyone introduces themselves, their perspective/questions on where we are after 2 years and will be asked to vote for 1 NYC community idea they feel will have traction over the coming 2 years.
- 2:40 - Three brainstorming sessions, separately around {tech, teaching, twitteriffic etc}
- How can NYC spur local projects(s) with structured sustainability?
- Can NYC use its place in the world to help build worldwide action?
- Where can you connect with Specific Overseas Community? (EG. our hosts at Church of St Mary the Virgin have strong Honduras ties, as do several OLPC volunteers who will be in attendance!)
- 3:20 - Everyone re-congregate, explaining "on-whiteboard" your team's Conclusions / Strategies
- 4PM - Clean up - depart for drinks/dinner nearby!
- Teachers, Technologists, and Twitterers -- Please do join us for an afternoon of serious structured brainstorming -- examining how all of us can now directly impact education worldwide.
- Everyone Can Help: Learning innovators, Software carpenters, Community Marketing geniuses, Usability experts, Local teachers, Grassroots organizers, Artists, Quality assurance/Support gurus, all Most welcome...
- Meetup signup here!
- Consider also joining our general NYC mailing list: OLPC-NYC@laptop.org
- OLPC News Story: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_nyc_community_summit.html
Several OLPCorps team members who deployed XO laptops across Africa this summer are eager to join us in NY City, eg. talking about their individual school experience in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya, etc:
- Would you like to plan something? Add it here!
Past Activities
- Story Jam New York - March 28-30, 2008. At UNICEF.
About
The New York Interest Group is a way for people in the New York metro area and surrounding locations to talk about and work together on OLPC. We aren't necessarily interested just in trying to bring OLPC into classrooms in New York (although we generally think it's a wonderful idea) we're also interested in volunteering/contributing to the project.
OLPC New York IS
- a nucleation point for exchange between local groups, towards the OLPC Boston office and back, and with other groups worldwide
- helping in organizing XOs for the local groups
- supporting and cherishing the autonomy of local groups
- focusing on rough consensus, grassroots involvement, and working projects
OLPC New York IS NOT
- going to do a local pilot in your school (although we'll encourage and support you if you want to do one yourself)
- going to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to do (although we're always up for idea-bouncing and brainstorms)
Contact and chapters
Mailing list
If there's enough demand, we'll set up a mailing list. If you'd like to have an NYC-OLPC mailing list, post a link to your contact info (wiki userpages work) below - the minimum number for starting a list is 10 recent requests.
Chapters
If you know of any New-York area schools, organizations, or groups of interested people who have organized or want to organize a Grassroots group or an University chapter, please ask them to add a link below.
Existing projects
- Teaching Matters is running a pilot in the city - see their blog here.
Short URL set up for this wiki page
Project ideas
If you're in New York and want to work on a project with someone local, post ideas here.
- I would love to set up a fundraiser event that brings awareness to this amazing initiative as well as collecting funds to buy and provide even more of these laptops to kids around the world. I'm relatively new to the NY area and to fundraising, so anyone else who's interested, please post here! (Post your ideas if you have them!)
- Hope to brainstorm this idea on this event: (School Service Learning Program with Universities and Colleges)
- Plz see details of the program here: User:Mafe
