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OLPC has put a lot of effort into building a device with very low power consumption as it will be This was removed due to concerns about stresses on the casing, and also ease of use.

...pants are trying to understand how to use (or create) the best combination of tools that will enable [[constructionist]] learning in schools in the devel The following use cases describe the most probable points of intersection between media, roles and interaction models:

..., who suspect that the heads of OLPC simply forgot about the world outside of the USA & Canada (e.g: [http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/2 ...ble elsewhere during that time. And I think it's unlikely that the "heads of OLPC forgot about the world outside", considering that that is where their

Spoken=French (fr) The official language of the South Africa is French. La loi reconnaît quatre langues nationales : l ...he most inspiring projects out there. Things are moving very fast indeed: 2008 saw the first 3 countries with full coverage, i.e. with all kids age 5 to 1

(View a BBC slide show of School Galadima [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7113548.stm he ''“I like it when I use it in class.”''—Emmanuel, Primary 5, June, 2007

|comments = The book explores the intersection of mathematics and cognitive science. |mimetypes = .html, .pdf, .ps, .js, .class

This page collects descriptions of ''some'' of the various active sub-projects within the OLPC project. If you are new de ...ces that other projects can use to allow users to accomplish their tasks. Of course, the various Linux libraries are also "core" to the system; things l

'''Localization''' (l10n)* is the process of taking software or content and adapting it for local use. It involves font .... That is, any assumptions derived from the language, culture, and customs of the developers must be removed. Much content can be written in a neutral in

.../llk.media.mit.edu/papers/archive/edutainment.pdf Playful Learning instead of Edutainment]. ...ments"-focussed ideas for what type of thing we want to provide. For many of the application classes there are existing PyGTK-based applications availab

* 7' video: [http://on.aol.com/video/the-success-of-the-one-laptop-per-child-organization-297293043 Impact on teachers, parents ...pace too. Every XO can load over 100 ebooks on its memory and has a choice of over 86.000 [[eBooks]] available, as well as many (educational) games, all

...d resources; the testing and assessment of other ideas; and a wide variety of related work--from the theoretical to the experimental. ...u'' are a contributor, please make sure that your project is listed in one of the sections below or on a related page.

...do this for any language where there are any reasonable number of computer students. [http://www.iosn.net/l10n/l10n-howto-toolkit/ link to guides] --[[User:Mok ...that to the OLPC. The manual is divided in 4 modules, each modules is made of 4 lessons, each lesson divided in 6 parts: lecture, foreign expressions, qu

...ich aims to serve to provide support in the educational and learning needs of Rwanda and other countries across Africa. ...2014 report of the Broadband Commission, says “Rwanda has provided each of its 2.5 million Children in primary schools with a laptop.” see [http://w

...nless you understand them. Also, when answering a new question (at the end of the page), please cut and paste it to before the line near the end that beg ...keting, sales, and things that will actually make the OLPC be in the hands of kids.

* 7' video: [http://on.aol.com/video/the-success-of-the-one-laptop-per-child-organization-297293043 Impact on teachers, parents [[File:Olpc_Cambodia_teacher-channa-engaged-students.jpg|407px]] [[Image:CambodianChildren_thumb.jpg|left|195px]] [[File:OlpcCam

...S_Service_Description|detailed description]] of the current implementation of these services is also available, along with [[Schoolserver_Testing|Test In ...y adding links to existing pages discussing these topics, if you are aware of them''

<div class="plainlinks"> ...als]]</big> and <big>[[Support FAQ]]</big>, for a growing "Knowledge Base" of Frequently Asked Questions.

...loyed in the United States are from the [[G1G1 2007|2007]] and [[G1G1 2008|2008 Give One, Get One]] programs and not from school or government programs. * Each of the fifty United States, plus associated territories, has great discretion

...nless you understand them. Also, when answering a new question (at the end of the page), please cut and paste it to before the line near the end that beg ...ll of wikipedia is freely available, you might want to talk with wikipedia of giving some free cd's away for the project.

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This is an archive of '''uncategorized questions''' (2007-2009). See also ...opriate category above for your question. If your question fits in several of the categories above, choose one. If you cannot find an appropriate categor

...t indeed: over 86.000 eBooks available, all education disciplines covered, 2008 saw the first 3 developing countries with full coverage, i.e. with all kids ...citizens with one leg in Afghanistan and another still in their countries of origin to develop leadership for OLPC, Agenda 21, the MDG's and accelerate

...keting, sales, and things that will actually make the OLPC be in the hands of kids. ...Lanka. Or Global Catalyst about computers in refugee camps. Or get on some of the non-profit mailing lists that regularly send out job notices for the wo

...nless you understand them. Also, when answering a new question (at the end of the page), please cut and paste it to before the line near the end that beg ...php?title=Ask_OLPC_a_Question_about_the_XO&action=edit edit the whole list of questions] so that you can move the "<nowiki><</nowiki>noinclude>" tag afte

To deliver a proof of concept that demonstrates how to create custom curriculum materials from Wi ...r Wikipedia resources in an interchange-friendly and semantically-rich set of DITA-specialized topics that can be used as classroom materials

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...etween questions that had been answered, and questions that had not been. (Of the questions that follow, the 5 questions from "Cambodia test?" through "H Given that so many of the actual "answered questions" answers have been superseded by events over

...ended on Dec 31. Thank you to everyone who participated! See also [[G1G1 2008]].''</center> ...07, One Laptop Per Child offered a Give 1 Get 1 Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—on

...rganization aims to increase the quality of education through the creation of open-source learning activities combined with teacher training. ...stricts in various forms in partnership with Nepal Government's Department of Education (DoE) with support from development partners including Danish Gov

In June 2008, the non-profit association One Laptop Per Child Switzerland was founded in ...to the mailing list and send us an email to introduce yourself to the rest of the community.

; [If requesting XOs] # of XOs needed, and their use: ...ld you use laptops for a limited time borrowed from a local community pool of machines?

This is the wiki-homepage of the [http://www.imsa.edu/ Illinois Math and Science Academy] Chapter. We a ...eriments. Many were started during our intersession week of January 7-11, 2008.

...:#c1fea1; border:1px solid #cdf; padding:0px; align:center;font-size:120%" class="plainlinks"> ...achers are fully comfortable with this new approach to teaching, providing students with computers and educational content alone will have limited impact on th

...page you're watching is changed. Finally, click the watch tab at the top of this page to include it in your watchlist. ...r's group meetings''' at the [http://www.rit.edu/ '''''Rochester Institute of Technology''''']

''Feb 16, 2008. An essay from [[Marvin Minsky essays|Marvin Minsky]]'' the practice and drill of a bunch of skills called Arithmetic—and instead of promoting

...for an afternoon of serious structured brainstorming -- examining how all of us can now directly impact education worldwide.'' # Women in Need (WIN)... Are we coming back? or turn this as one of our pn-going project?

...:#c1fea1; border:1px solid #cdf; padding:0px; align:center;font-size:120%" class="plainlinks"> ...s pilot school as they happen. [[User:Berrybw|Bryan Berry]] 08:42, 7 March 2008 (EST)

[[Image:CSGPhoto.JPG|thumb|right|Students helping students in St. John]] ...er, then deliver refurbished, donated computers to a developing community. Students are responsible for teaching the recipients how to use the computers as wel

Repair centers are '''in beta mode''' - a few groups of long-time volunteers, in partnership with staff at OLPC, have set up shop w * Tip-sharing, advice-giving, and best practices for repair of XO hardware problems.

== Introduction of OLPC to Mongolia == ...nnouncing that every child in Mongolia will have a connected laptop by end of 2010.

...g=5 style="font-face:verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size:100%; color:#666;" class="plainlinks" ...h the Inter-American Development Bank to send 13,700 XOs to Haiti, for the students and teachers in 60 schools.

[[Image:olpcsolpic11.jpg|thumb|right|Location of Solomon Islands]] [[Image:olpcsolpic.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Solomon Islands]]

...2643/ Pir Wadhai]. [[user:HabibK|Dr. Habib Khan]] announced the launching of the pilot [[project]] at the [[Atlas Public School]], located in the slums Students : 150

Approx. 10 km south-southwest of [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=jaunpur&sll=24.716667,82. A video walkthrough of the school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr8QRjUgS1w

==Demographics of the Site and School== Head of the Institute: Sr. Mariamma Kunnackal

==How OLPC impacted a slum area kid: case of Khayal Mohammad== ====May 10, 2008====

...questions about the agreement between OLPC and Microsoft announced 15 May 2008. ''Please sign your edits. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]'' ...tp://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-15-2008/0004815108&EDATE= Microsoft press release]

Solomon Islands has published the report of an independent evaluation by ACER ...he suitability of the OLPC Program to meet the Education Improvement plans of the Pacific Islands. The evaluation should be suitable for

...:#c1fea1; border:1px solid #cdf; padding:0px; align:center;font-size:120%" class="plainlinks"> ...as the first time that we got to test our activites with a group of school students. It was a great learning experience for the chidren and for us too.

...:#c1fea1; border:1px solid #cdf; padding:0px; align:center;font-size:120%" class="plainlinks"> ...PC Game Jam went really well. The participant turnout was really good, all of them managed to complete the tasks we had prepared and those who were reall

Rabi Karmacharya from [[OLE Nepal]] came to 1cc on May 30, 2008 to share his thoughts with OLPC staff. === Board of directors ===

Deployments in Niue started in July 2008 * Niue Computer Society (Inc.) is very supportive of the idea [http://elearniue.wetpaint.com NCS]

...rows and develops. In addition to the work itself, we are also at the apex of rethinking these approaches and models and innovating them to make sure the Please see also Experience, Constructionism, Reviews of OLPC, and Class Acts (a FLOSS Manuals community publication) for articles and other anecdot

...to get XOs through the Give One, Get One program when it launches in Fall 2008. '''Every''' interested school should create a page on the OLPC wiki descri ...rotate them among the school. I would like more information about how my students could receive these computers.Please give me more information. Sincerely,

...:#c1fea1; border:1px solid #cdf; padding:0px; align:center;font-size:120%" class="plainlinks"> ...ope to accomplish, though the plan is going to be changed slightly because of changes to the OLPC 2010 grant program:</b>

7 August 2008 ...ervers, back then when OLPC was just getting started with deployments, and of investing in and creating, from scratch, an impressive infrastructure and a

...ctly to the Internet and generates by adding about 124 topics (in the form of keywords), 752 cross-curricular educational links, 170 highly qualified edu ...rks. The educational links revolve around a topic and illuminate it in all of its depth. The flexible content is subject to constant change. That means m

...jects about Malaria. The schools decided to hold an event on the occasion of World Malaria day, April 25th, to show their best projects. ...Etoys book, or programmed dialogue using Scratch, have been shared within students and community around school on World Malaria Day, April 25th. The student p

...ntact between loop teams and the deployment classrooms under the direction of the deployment leader (a teacher at the deployment school). ...suburbs. They work with deployment schools with the help and facilitation of that deployment school's loop team.

...verbatim requests from technical leads or translated and reviewed rewrites of initial feedback. Only items specifically requested by a qualified technica ...verbatim requests from technical leads or translated and reviewed rewrites of initial feedback. Only items specifically requested by a qualified technica

Ideas for Sugar activities to use in the field. For more, see [[Summer of Code ideas]], [[School server ideas]], and [[:category:ideas|the related ca ...ltilingual wiki|multilingual wiki]]. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 12:18, 2 March 2008 (EST)

...org/images/stories/fichiers/GuideXOGabon.pdf pedagogical guide for the use of the XO laptop]. ...ideXOGabon.pdf was not found on this server. Let's not use the file upload of the wiki.laptop.org let's depend on franxophonie for keeping and storing ol

=='''Takaungu Team, University of Washington & The New School'''== {{TOCright}} ...become a sustainable program, ultimately directed by Vutakaka teachers and students.

...Tanzanian undergraduate student at [http://www.iaa.ac.tz/08/ the Institute of Accountancy Arusha] (IAA) to implement 100 laptops and a basic technology a ...ture in place to support this program over the long term, and their letter of support is available [http://www.epicchange.org/Letter_of_Support_Shepherds

...potential lending libraries that are up for discussion and in the process of being created. Click [[projects|here]] to go back to the Projects page. |class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color:

: '''Latest version on FlossManuals''': http://en.flossmanuals.net/class-acts/ : '''Snapshot''' as of April 2011: [[media:Class-acts.epub|epub]] | [[media:Class-acts.pdf|pdf]]

...learning strategies - eg. a "curricular arc" showcasing the learning power of their favorite Sugar Activity! * The [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Uruguay_Summit_2011 Uruguay Summit] of May 5-7, 2011 brought together free educational software developers from ar

The Student Services report is part of the Fiscal and Operational Report. <br> The current status of the Student Services key budget areas is summarized in Appendix A.

* Fast Review of the 4 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

...on of software, texts, and other materials that will be available to users of OLPC laptops. ...ef and relevant. In particular, make sure that you have some understanding of [[constructionism]], since the content included in the repository should re

This site was maintained by Walter at the Media Lab. Some versions of it are still preserved online. ...children). The site had a navigation header, again the logo, with a menu of pages associated with each.

''Some parts of this page are out of date. Feel free to update links and add more recent info. GS''' Angier presentation from July 18 with drawing of time out rooms: <br>

...also [http://www.doe.mass.edu/bsea/decisions.html fully searchable record of rulings back to 1998] '''I stopped updating this page as of September, 2010. Anyone who can summarize and link to the latest rulings is

...Sugar Learning Platform], there has never been an opportunity for so many of our [http://realness.org volunteer movement's implementers], teachers, lear ...will introduce these powerful ideas and accomplishments to a growing group of OLPC and Sugar volunteers and partners everywhere -- Think globally; Act lo

...[http://www.devex.com/projects/school-sector-reform-project-in-nepal cost] of the project is $2.6 billion USD. There are two components to the Project: ...mary objective of this component is to ensure equitable access and quality of basic education for all children in age group 5-12, prepare pre-school-age

...chool, and 4 years of a University Bachelor's Degree. <ref> "Rwanda System of Education"; US Embassy. http://rwanda.usembassy.gov/rwanda_system_of_educat ...h has been described as "not less than 30 percent."<ref> Rwanda's Ministry of Education website http://www.mineduc.gov.rw/spip.php?article21 </ref>

Collection of Special Education Links = Reducing the use of Restraint and Seclusion =

...gave a brief introduction and summary of projects they worked on in terms of challenges faced and how to create success. ### Ownership of the machine

* Fast Review of the 6 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for, and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:

'''A listing of Summer Camps with some comments on them''' A camp page from the federation of children with special needs http://fcsn.org/camps/ <br>

placement with the manufacturer and final distribution of XOs to schools conclude recruitment of local team members and to arrange technical and

This taxonomy addresses different scenarios that may occur in implementation of XO laptops and [[school server |school servers]]. The taxonomy in its curre ...arios can be reinforced with use cases that provide a hypothetical example of use and often help in understanding needs and assessing constraints.

'''Evaluations of OLPC projects: A review of 2009-2010 reports''' ...part of the document includes two overview reports, followed by a summary of the main conclusions obtained from the evaluations analyzed.

...ity deployments / communities of learning, from teachers and classrooms of students to children and their families. ...nd 2 teachers) received XO-1s, today they're in their 4th (and final) year of primary school. The school is an all-day school which is rather untypical f

...nd 2 teachers) received XO-1s, today they're in their 4th (and final) year of primary school. The school is an all-day school which is rather untypical f ...exercise Activity called ''ReckonPrimer'' for use in the proof-of-concept class.