OLPC UK/Pilots/Resources

So you want to run a pilot project? This page contains case studies, deployment reports/analysis, and advice directly relevant to pilot stakeholders.

Preparation Guides

• OLPC Deployment Principles
• Deployment Guide
• SugarLabs Deployment Resources
• Educational ideas to consider (but not take dogmatically)
• Ideas for non-OLPC educators
• Concerns and criticism to be mindful of
• OLPC Oceania/Deployment

Intro to Sugar Activities

• Turtle Art basics
• Creating a customized Memory game
• Hot-Cold game written in Turtle Art
• Turtle Art Portfolio basics
• XO Editor basics
• Playing with OOo4Kids in Sugar
• Using the Journal
• Using View Source

Lesson Plan integration ideas

Here are some ideas to start discussion about how one might integrate Sugar into the classroom. These are not normative of course - just examples.

• Teacher Training notes from OLPC Oceania

Pilot proposals

• Boston pilots

Case studies

• SugarLabs USA YMCA Healthy Kids day report]
• SugarLabs USA Olin Play session report

Deployment Reports/Analysis

• Cambridge Friends School
• http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/olpc/archivos/GUIA%20Pedagogica%20OLPC_p1.pdf and http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/olpc/OLPC_fichasfasc.html
• SugarLabs Gardner Pilot Academy]
• Uruguay Deployment Update
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Friends/Australia's_first_deployment
• http://blog.laptop.org/2009/06/11/one-laptop-per-child-creates-a-global-center-for-excellence-in-laptops-and-learning/

Advice

• http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-June/006281.html

Communications

Participation suggestions

For everyone

It's An Education Project - SugarLabs Deployment blogs